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Catriona Haine - MarpleCat
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Scottish Professional Qualified Genealogist (MSc Genealogy Strath.) investigating family histories & mysteries Involving Ireland & England as well as Scotland.

RQG member & AGRA Associate.

Citizen of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 & Lanarkshire lassie.

www.MarpleCat.com
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Pubs we never knew. Macpherson's at 165 Pleasance in 1927 shortly before demolition in a slum clearance scheme. Allegedly one of the finest the southside ever knew. The windows advertise Disher's legendary 10 Guinea Ale in bottles, at 11.2% ABV it was quite the tipple and also came in pints
A black and white photograph of an elaborate Victorian pub building from the outside, part of an ornate 3-storey corner tenement block. Older, less salubrious tenements can be seen adjacent. The building is a "gushet", a triangular block on the corner of a triangular junction. 1927. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries. OS 1893 Town Plan of Edinburgh, centred on the Pleasance and the pub at number 165, showing lots of streets running off in different directions in a densely populated part of the city. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
January 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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The book is Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement by Andrew Davison. How the billiard temperance halls of Manchester evolved into some of the pubs we have today. 👇
BBC News - The alcohol-free Victorian venues transformed into pubs - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 9, 2026 at 8:16 AM
marplecat.bsky.social
Between Christmas & birthday, I’ve been very lucky to receive quite a few books off my wish list. One or two other gifts from my family seem to have a theme to them too… 😂
Picture of 5 books of varying themes related to social history. Picture of socks and tote bag with slogans related to book loving and reading habits.
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Birthday celebrations for me today. I’m reliably informed there was serious snow on the ground on the day that I was born. While there is substantial snow in the north of Scotland today, not so much around the central belt, despite the weather warnings. This is my earliest photo I have as a baby.
MarpleCat as a baby with her mother and father. Image belongs to MarpleCat and not for reuse.
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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The best thing about Scotland in the cold is the gritters network with the punniest named gritters www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland
Traffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotland’s trunk road network
www.traffic.gov.scot
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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dinahrose.bsky.social Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · Jan 5
My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt
A magnificently detailed dalek made of snow, complete with sink plunger.
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
This morning at the Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Emmett and completed by John Honeyman, this Gothic style church was built in the 1850s.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #church #argylestreet
January 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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New London Road Cemetery Chelmsford
pharostutors.bsky.social Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · Jan 4
A plumber has appealed for help in his mission to locate hundreds of missing grave plots at a rundown cemetery. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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The first new stories of 2026 are now available - 7 Ulster Linen Workers #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #SocialHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/new-sto...
New Stories for the New Year
As we look forward to our next Forgotten Women Friday later this month, it is time to publish seven more stories of women who worked in the Ulster Linen industry. You can read about Elizabeth Hodgen, ...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Dec 26
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

🧵👇
Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Happy New Year! It was the last day of the festive holidays in Scotland yesterday. I enjoyed a walk in the Ayrshire sunshine & discovered a little bit of industrial history that employed some smoke & mirrors style deception. #Genealogy #History www.facebook.com/share/p/1DxD...
Image of MarpleCat Genealogy post on Facebook (about Blacksyke Tower) that link in this Bluesky post to redirects to.
January 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Go on. You know you need to. #ww1 #genealogy #vlaanderen #wo1 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/from...
From the Channel to the Ypres Salient: The Belgian Sector 1914 -1918
The Belgian Sector 1914 -1918
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November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Delighted to announce I’ve been accepted as an AGRA associate.

www.agra.org.uk/catriona-hai...
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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New post on the Frugal Family Historian blog. Free records for Remembrance weekend, YouTube, podcasts. It's all about researching, and picking up new skills. Learn more, do more, spend nothing. #AncestryHour scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2025/11/lear...
Learn/do more, spend nothing
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
marplecat.bsky.social
Researching in NHSGGC and Glasgow City Archives today which are based in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, which quite possibly has the best collection of 1970s pattern carpets in the country. Any other libraries or archives with such amazing carpets? #AncestryHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Carpet in Glasgow City Archives Carpet in the Mitchell Library Glasgow Carpet in the Mitchell Library Glasgow Carpet in the Mitchell Library Glasgow
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Excited to be taking part in my first #FewForgottenWomen today. The woman I’m researching was lodging not far from where my grandfather was living at the time of the 1901 census so it feels a little bit like going home.
A word cloud made out of women’s names who were working in the linen industry in Ulster at the time of the 1901 Census
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I'm looking forward to meeting with the Leicestershire & Rutland FHS lrfhs.org.uk this Wednesday where we'll be discussing how to kill off our ancestors. More details in the alt text. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #AncestryHour
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society Zoom Talk Wednesday 15th October 7.30pm Killing Off Your Ancestors by Alison Spring Even though your ancestors might have lived a long time ago, finding out about their deaths can teach you a lot about their lives. Discover the many sources of information which will shed light on this important point of their history. To book a place, please email Sue Lester on publicity@lrfhs.org.uk from 7 days before the talk (7th October). The talk is free to all LRFHS members. For non-members a small donation (suggested £3) is appreciated as a contribution. A collage of images shows a death certificate, a gravestone, a newspaper announcement of a death, and a graveyard.
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Unusually early dinner means for once I’ve actually not missed #AncestryHour My fortnightly session in @gwsfhs.org.uk research centre in Partick this afternoon. And the joy of traffic on the way home is getting to appreciate the wonderful #GhostSigns that are popping up everywhere. How is everyone?
Image of Bavarian bake house in Partick with ghost sign for Greenholm Laundry visible above.
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Katja, my no 1 research buddy when I’m working from home. She really wants to be on my lap when I’m sitting at my desk, but I eventually persuade her the chair beside me is the place to be. #CatSpam
Picture of a tabby Maine coon cat with wide piercing eyes.
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I've known for a while I was doing well at Ulster counties ancestral bingo but also looking good now for Irish Provinces on latest Ancestry regions. Brand new for me is Hebrides & Highlands for the first time ever, which somehow makes feel like I'm a real Scot now. What's change for everyone else?
Map showing ancestral Origins of MarpleCat as defined by Ancestry, showing coverage of Central Scotland, Hebrides & Western Highlands, Northern Ireland, Connaght, Leinster, Munster & Donegal.
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🚨 New on Substack: my post on the post-war history of Wolverhampton's Low Hill Estate: ‘a popular place to live’
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-low-hi...
Semi-detached corner housing Street scene of terrace housing with verges and trees
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Fresh October newsletter out now.
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Time to harvest your roots!
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October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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That thing where you’re looking at parish maps in an actual book of The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers… and try to use 2 fingers to zoom in on the area of interest. Ah well, I’ll take an actual pic then to zoom in on. 🙈😂
Image of south Argyll & adjoining counties, greater part of Argyll with Stirling, Dumbarton & Renfrew from The Phillimore Parish Atlas.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM