Occupation = Dource?

killearnan · Post by **killearnan** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:35 pm

At work so I can't look at my copies to refresh my memory but....I go with Andrew's answer of Doune, based on having looked at the record a couple weeks ago - as Thomas Hislop was also a couple greats uncle of mine

{Thomas's sister Janet married Robert Jamieson; Robert and his wife had a son James, as far as I can tell, and James and his adopted my great grandfather Peter (ne McGee) Jamieson. Haven't found James' birth but his first son Robert named his first son Ebenezer Hislop Jamieson, which was Thomas and Janet's father's name; he was also a minister and left a detailed will.}

See my post in this thread and on my blog. I've done a bit more since then that I haven't written up yet but I'd love to compare notes!

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:15 pm

I think Andrew's suggestion of requesting a coloured scan will be the best bet.

I saved it and tried some ACDsee jooggery pockery but can't quite work out what is written there.

It going to annoy me...........

killearnan · Post by **killearnan** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:33 pm

And as a P.S. (since I found that I have the certificate file on my flash drive....):
Thomas is described very clearly in 1861 as Minister Free Church Doune, all in the occupation box, when his sister (my great-great-great grandmother) Janet Hislop Chapman Jamieson, was living with him and had her occupation listed as housekeeper.

So it looks like that's how he may have described himself

Post by **Anne H** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:20 pm

I'd also go along with Andrew's suggestion of requesting a coloured scan - it actually looks like it might be a longer word.

Nice family history there, Mary, and now you have someone to compare notes with.

Regards,
Anne H

Pettigrew · Post by **Pettigrew** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:22 am

I have requested a coloured copy from SP, will upload it when I get it. Hopefully with all your help, I may solve this query.

Killearnan we are definitely connected, I also have the details of Janet’s marriage to Robert Jamieson, and I am sending you a PM.

Mary

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:41 am

Hello Mary,

Some odds and ends.

In the Caledonian Mercury, Thursday, July 19, 1827, there’s an article about a Court case regarding the estate of late Hugh Nimmo, Baker, Edinburgh, afterwards residing at Montpellier, died 6th August, 1825. Mrs Helen Nimmo, otherwise Hislop, spouse of the Rev. Ebenezer Hislop, minister of the gospel, Dalkeith, was one of the defendants.

SP appears to have a Will for Mr Nimmo. The particulars of the case are set out in this book “Reports of Cases Tried in the Jury Court, 1829” http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kYk ... #PPA296,M1

A Rev. Hislop gets a mention in “The auld Scotch precentor as sketched in anecdote and story”, 1894. (I only get a snippet view in my neck of the woods.) http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PFs ... lr=&pgis=1

Page 57 ………… the Sunday morning when he was appointed to occupy the desk, he made a fairly good start with the first psalm, but utterly broke down at the second. Unable to hitch it on to any tune, the minister rose and intimated, not without much sympathy in tone, although apparently wanting in words. “My friends,” said he, addressing the congregation, "the case is hopeless — let us pray." Here there seems to have been no attempt on the part of the minister to assist the broken-down precentor. But there are instances in which such a thing has been done, and done successfully. The Rev. Mr. Hislop, of Doune Free Church, on one occasion, got his precentor out of a difficulty by a little helpful sympathy. Looking over the pulpit, Mr. Hislop whispered, " Try another tune, John: try another, man." John tried, and went through the psalm all right. Dr. Guthrie, in his "Autobiography," relates the following interesting story of his precentor: — "I had undertaken," he says, "to preach on a Sunday ………

Hope that’s new,
Alan

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:00 am

What a very nice man he was - my husband is one of the precentors so I have great sympathy with those dear men of old , some hymns just will nott be 'hitched' to a tune

Pettigrew · Post by **Pettigrew** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:22 pm

I have received a reply from SP as below-:

Good Afternoon I am afraid we are site support only - for the type of information yourequire it would be best for you to contact one of the more professionalorganisations who have details of historically where other informationcan be resourced. I would advise you to contact General Register Office for Scotland(GROS) at http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/ as they will be the ones toissue you with a copy of the census. Regards www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Did I make the wrong sort of request? I asked them for a coloured copy.

Mary

Post by **Anne H** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:24 pm

Hi Mary,

Where exactly did you send your request?

I've never requested a coloured copy but would have thought that if you sent the request through the "Illegible Image" section with an explanation, ScotlandsPeople would have forwarded your request to the correct department at GROS.

Perhaps Andrew or someone else more familiar with these things can shed some light on this.

Regards,
Anne H

Post by **AndrewP** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:44 pm

Hi Mary,

It does sound like your request went in the wrong direction. On the ScotlandsPeople website, click on Contact Us below the green box with the choice of census years. On the next page, click on Continue here to fill out the contact us form. Then select Illegible Image. Click on the Proceed with contact us regarding illegible images. Then you get the form to complete. Selecting that contact form should mean that it gets directed to the right people.

Or is that the route you already went?

All the best,

AndrewP