Sarah mentioned Rat Portage as the place of marriage for Mark & Rose over on Archiver's post.
It reminded me of another romantic setting - where my GG-uncle Hugh Milne got married in 1878.
Abington Place, Slaughterhouse Rd, Paisley.
Jack
Romantic wedding address....
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Romantic wedding address....
Hi folks,
Sarah mentioned Rat Portage as the place of marriage for Mark & Rose over on Archiver's post.
It reminded me of another romantic setting - where my GG-uncle Hugh Milne got married in 1878.
Abington Place, Slaughterhouse Rd, Paisley.
Jack
Sarah mentioned Rat Portage as the place of marriage for Mark & Rose over on Archiver's post.
It reminded me of another romantic setting - where my GG-uncle Hugh Milne got married in 1878.
Abington Place, Slaughterhouse Rd, Paisley.
Jack
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SarahND wrote:Well, they all go together rather nicely, don't they? You carry the rats one by one over to the slaughterhouse, and the result is Mary's birthplace
Sorry, it's getting late over here in France
Sarah
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McDonald or MacDonald (some couldn't make up their mind!), Bonner, Crichton, McKillop, Campbell, Cameron, Gitrig (+other spellings), Clark, Sloan, Stewart, McCutcheon, Ireland (the surname)
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Well now, this got me thinking...I was born at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, and have often thought what an unattractive name it was for a hospital. This thread made me wonder what the word 'stob' means and I found this on the net, admittedly from a more US slanted site (edited):
stob :
A short straight piece of wood, such as a stake.
[Middle English, stump, variant of stubbe, stub; see stub.]
Related to stub and stubby, stob is one of numerous Indo-European cognates, for example, Greek stupos, meaning "stump (of a tree or branch)." In Middle English stob seems to have been a variant spelling of stub, with one of its meanings being "the amputated stump of a human limb."
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stob :
A short straight piece of wood, such as a stake.
[Middle English, stump, variant of stubbe, stub; see stub.]
Related to stub and stubby, stob is one of numerous Indo-European cognates, for example, Greek stupos, meaning "stump (of a tree or branch)." In Middle English stob seems to have been a variant spelling of stub, with one of its meanings being "the amputated stump of a human limb."
Nina
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can't remember where I read it though !