Descendants of James Walker & Isobel Crombie

EXCHEQUER CHAMBERS,

EDINBURGH, DEC. 10. 1817.

NOTICE is hereby given to the descendants of JAMES WALKER and ISOBEL CROMBIE, his Spouse, that several applications are under consideration of the right honourable the Lord Chief Baron, and remanent Barons, for gifts of ULTIMUS HAERES of the Estate and Effects of Miss JEAN WADDELL, late of Crawhill, in the county of Linlithgow, and who died at Crawhill on the 18th day of June 1814.  The said James Walker was, in 1731, a merchant at Giffordhall, in the county of Haddington.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 21st January 1818.

Alexander Kerr, Ellon (deceased)

NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.

THOSE having claims upon the estate of the deceased ALEXANDER KERR, merchant in Ellon, are desired to lodge the same, properly vouched, with James Walker, Den End, Udny, or William Chalmers, jun., Ellon, before the 20th of December next; and those indebted to the said Alexander Kerr are requested to pay their accounts in one month from this date, to either of the above persons.

Ellon, 24th August, 1812.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 2nd September, 1812.

St. Fergus Kirk Session Minutes, 12th January, 1812

St. Fergus 12th Janry. 1812.  The Session met & constituted compeared Janet Gray an unmarried woman and confessed that she had brought forth a child begot in fornication, & accused James Walker an unmarried man in the Parish of Longside, as the father of Said child - Said Walker being called, compeared & being seriously exhorted, & Admonished, was interrogated, denied all guilt, or carnal connexion with said Janet Gray - both being suitably exhorted to ingenuity, were cited to attend the Session this day seinnicht.  Session closed.

St Fergus Kirk Session Minutes, 1812 (NAS Ref: CH2/639/3). 
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Buchan Ploughing Match

On Wednesday, the 21st November, in presence of Francis Garden Campbell, Esq. of Troup and Glenlyon, the Convener;  George Gordon, Esq. of Hallhead; Patrick Stewart, Esq. of Auchlunkart - members of the Society; a most respectable meeting of Proprietors and practical Farmers of the District; the Presidents and many of the Members of the Buchan Agricultural and Deer Farmer Societies - the Ploughing Match for the Premiums given by the Highland Society of Scotland, in the district of Buchan, took place in a field of Auchtydonald, the property of James Ferguson, Esq. of Pitfour, and possessed by Mr Thomas Kilgour.  Fifty Ploughs started, Forty-nine of which were drawn by single pairs of horses, and one by a pair of oxen.  The Judges appointed were - Messrs James Gordon, Orrok; Thomas Laing, Haddo; John Geddes, Rattray; Robert Scott, Yokieshill; Alexander Irvine Ross, Tyrie; who determined the Premiums as follows: The first, of Three Guineas, and one of the Silver Medals, to Alexander Bonner, servant to Mr Alexander Bruce, farmer at Millhill of Kinmundy; the second of Two Guineas, and the other Silver Medal; to James Walker, servant to Colonel Hutchison of Cairngall; the third of Two Guineas, to Robert Ranny, servant to Mr James Bruce, farmer, of Middletown of Innerquhomry; the fourth of One and a Half Guinea, to William Carle, servant to Thomas Kilgour, Esq. tacksman of the farm of Auchtydonald; the fifth of One Guinea, to Andrew Paterson, servant to Alexander Harvey, Esq. of Broadland; and the sixth of Half a Guinea, to James Kynoch, servant to Mr John Mackie, farmer, of Oldtown of Coynach.

Published in the Aberdeen Journal, Wednesday 28th November, 1810.