Derrick Johnstone

Glasgow U, researching 17C Scots emigrants to New Jersey | Old Edinburgh Club | AI in history and genealogy | Cycling | Family & Keeshonds

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@NatRecordsScot Many thanks to the impressive numbers who attended my talk yesterday. Super questions to deal with! Very grateful to NRS for the invitation.

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@OldEdinClub There is more to the tale, about what became of the survivors (free emigrants and indentured servants as well as the prisoners), as they took their place in what has been described as Scotland's only successful colonial venture. #EastJersey

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@OldEdinClub The passengers aboard the Henry and Francis were racked by fever and many did not last the crossing. Amongst their number were transported Covenanters who were soon be regarded as martyrs to the cause. #Covenanters #transportedprisoners #martyrs #Dunnottar

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

My grandpa was in this pierrot troupe, and my granny played the piano for them. Must have been just before WWI. There is little to go on. Does anyone else have Portobello pierrot connections?

[Old Edinburgh Club @OldEdinClub]

Do you know any history of pierrots in Portobello, popular seaside entertainers from Edwardian times to WWII? We've published some of what we know and would love to find out more. What troupes were there and who were their members? What did they perform? What stories did they have?
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[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@cocteautriplets Hi Andy. I can date this bathroom as mid-50s. We had identical tiles in our family home, in a building that was subdivided about 1955!

[Old Edinburgh Club @OldEdinClub]

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[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@cocteautriplets Great move Andy, thanks for doing this

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@cocteautriplets You didn't want to capsize there, thanks to the sewage outfall in the middle of the Bay!

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@cocteautriplets Another function of the hut: it was used in the 1960s/70s by the race officers for dinghy races held by the Royal Forth Yacht Club, facing the starting line in Wardie Bay.

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@nemnetwork_ Scots emigrants to East New Jersey in 1680s: who they were, why did they go, what became of them; influences of family, kinship, business and social networks. Quakers, Covenanters, entrepreneurs & more

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@lauraidoak @restalrig @Richard50942461 More on Hatton House in an article by J R Findlay in Proceedings of Soc Ant Scot, Feb 1875 https://t.co/LHvNetyXJ1

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@lauraidoak @restalrig @Richard50942461 The 17C house was built for Charles Maitland, Lauderdale's brother. Burnet says, "The Earl of Lauderdale had for many years treated his brother the Lord Hatton with as much contempt as he deserved; for he was both weak and violent, insolent and corrupt". Nice man.

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@lauraidoak @restalrig @Richard50942461 I cycled up the drive not so long ago to find out what is there and this is what I saw... Two square towers and walls remain, with a bungalow in the middle

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Details of our next talk in October.

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@cocteautriplets Curiously, there was a plantation called Jock's Lodge in Trelawny parish on Jamaica, owned by Cuthills and Mintos https://t.co/NLOnNaUWS9. The Mintos had a connection with Roslin.

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@cocteautriplets Slaves being trained at Jock's Lodge is mentioned in the Council's 'Our Town Stories' (pic 8) https://t.co/IRzDP89Jf4 both in relation to this and as a meeting place

[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@EggnogMac @JarlathFlynn @BBCScotWeather @aurorawatchuk I saw it too in Edinburgh. Given other sightings: space debris?

[Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks]

Well well well ...
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[Derrick Johnstone @derrickeduce]

@lauraidoak @Weegie_Graeme @FunkyPlaid Fullest treatment I can recall seeing is in 'Emeralds Chased in Gold' (Dickson, 1899). May not add to what you know already. British Library has e-book https://t.co/V5CdwdyRj4