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Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Aberdeenshire » Ellon January 21st 2015

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Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Aberdeenshire » Ellon April 22nd 2011

My first trip from was home was a very long 12 car journey to Scotland. Luckily, as I'm only 3 months old, I managed to sleep most of the way. When I was awake Uncle Matthew got to entertain me with Colin the caterpillar and my other toys. It was exciting being my first trip away, but also very sad. The reason for our trip was to scatter my great-grandads ashes near his childhood home. I didn't get to meet my great-grandad (he died just 10 days before I was born), but mummy told me he was one of the best men around! Mummy and daddy took me to see some of our relatives in Ellon, near Abeerdeen. Lots of my great-aunties and uncles were there too, plus nanny, grandad and great-granny. I loved all the ... read more
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Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland » Aberdeenshire » Ellon August 11th 2010

I don't think we ever will know why my Great-Grandmother Mary, a trained nurse, gathered her younger sisters together to catch a boat to Australia just after World War 1. The region of Aberdeenshire was booming and work would have been plentiful. Entering the small town of Strichen where she came from, it's understandable that she probably felt that there was much more to the world than the small pocket of Scotland that her forebears had occupied for centuries. Mary was a Cumming, a name which originates from the old Norman name 'Comyn'. Robert Comyn accompanied William the Conqueror over to England and then came to the region of Aberdeenshire and through advantageous marraiges and battles etc. (the way things were done back then) the Comyns, or Cummings as they were known by then, became one ... read more
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