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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
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
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… 😂
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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.
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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
My niece in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has made a snow dalek that's featured in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. #proudaunt
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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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
New London Road Cemetery Chelmsford
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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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.
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!

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January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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...
January 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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From the Channel to the Ypres Salient: The Belgian Sector 1914 -1918
The Belgian Sector 1914 -1918
uk.bookshop.org
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.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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
scotsancestors.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
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
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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?
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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?
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...
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Time to harvest your roots!
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October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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www.ancestry.co.uk/c/dna/offer?...

AncestryDNA kits on Ancestry UK are £39!

#Genealogy
AncestryDNA® | DNA Tests for Ethnicity & Genealogy DNA
www.ancestry.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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. 🙈😂
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM