Conferences, and other activities
| Many websites include a virtual coffee bar, where subscribers can post notes and queries etc. The SRA has a virtual tea-roome, where members can make enquiries about the whereabouts of records, publish news about research in progress, plug any book they've had published or pass on anything amusing about the world of Scottish historical records. Contributions should be sent to the SRA at the address given at the foot of the opposite column. | |||
| New books | |||
Professor Alexander Fenton has recently published Scottish Life and Society: The Food of the Scots: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 5 (Scottish Life & Society). It is published by John Donald and there are details at http://john-donald.birlinn.co.uk/book/details/The-Food-of-the-Scots-9780859766968/ Microform Academic Publishing have recently published The Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (Darien Company) from the National Library of Scotland (1694-1709): a guide to the microfilm edition (ISBN 978-1-85117-116-3). There is a useful (brief) introduction to the history of the Darien Company and a select bibliography as well as the contents list, which relates the NLS shelf mark to the relevant reel number. Available from Microform Academic Publishers, Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield WF3 2AP. Email: map@microform.co.uk. If you know of any publication we have missed, please refer it to the editor of Retour for mention in the Autumn edition. |
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| A testament in verse | |||
| 6 February 1868 Holograph testaments of Walter MacNaught, weaver, residing in George Street, Paisley, died 23 December 1867. Transcribed from Paisley Sheriff Court, Inventories etc. (SC58/42/35 pp. 228-229). 1. My Last Will First I leave two pounds of Sterling Worth To lay me safely Beneath the Turf In the Relief Burying Ground, No 125 Beside my Brothers two I wish to lie Dig down six feet Fifth grave from the Wall Beside my Brother James there let me fall Second I leave to Jeanie Adam bonny lass And Grandchild unto me I Guess I do bequeath to Her my Bank Receipts Or Bonds, that I may have on real estate All Moneys, that do belong to me, At my Decease are Hers Scot Free. The interest she will draw till twenty one. She may have Principal and Interest then. Paisley 1st Jany. 1862 2. My Silver Watch and old Mahogany Case I leave to Walter my Nephew Peter’s Son The Picture in the frount [sic] of rural Grace Was drawn and painted by my Brother John. Paisley Jany 6th 1862 |
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| The items above are extracted from the Virtual Tea-Roome page of the latest SRA Newsletter. For more items from the Newsletter click here. | |||