Catriona Haine - MarpleCat

@marplecat.bsky.social

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Scottish Professional Qualified Genealogist (MSc Genealogy Strath.) investigating family histories & mysteries Involving Ireland & England as well as Scotland. Director of RQG & AGRA Associate. Citizen of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 & Lanarkshire lassie. www.MarpleCat.com

Glasgow tenement with black round bay windows.
Cover image of “The Triumph of Textiles: industrial Dundee c1700-1918” by Christopher A Wheatley & J Tomlinson. 2024 Edinburgh University Press.
Image of Facebook post by University of Strathclyde Centre for Lifelong Learning about their Intermediate Scottish Family History Research course on 5th and 6th May 2026
Picture of 5 books of varying themes related to social history.
MarpleCat as a baby with her mother and father. Image belongs to MarpleCat and not for reuse.
Image of MarpleCat Genealogy post on Facebook (about Blacksyke Tower) that link in this Bluesky post to redirects to.
Carpet in Glasgow City Archives
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
Original image of the old pier, Derrytrasna at sunset by Sharon Cuatriz on X https://x.com/agtawagon
Image of Bavarian bake house in Partick with ghost sign for Greenholm Laundry visible above.
Small dark grey cat who was born in the wild to a feral mother. At age 11 now likes to cosy up to her primary human.
Picture of a tabby Maine coon cat with wide piercing eyes.
Map showing ancestral Origins of MarpleCat as defined by Ancestry, showing coverage of Central Scotland, Hebrides & Western Highlands, Northern Ireland, Connaght, Leinster, Munster & Donegal.
Image of south Argyll & adjoining counties, greater part of Argyll with Stirling, Dumbarton & Renfrew from The Phillimore Parish Atlas.
Screenshot from FMP Scottish Catholic baptism stating birth date 16 April 1848 and baptism date 14 March 1848.
Gravestones installation by Andy Goldsworthy
Front cover of book called “Drink Maps of Victorian Britain” by Kris Butler.
Two genealogists enjoying the large selection of family history books in the bookshop at the National Archives, Kew
Levita House. A block of flats built as social housing between the wars.
Diagram if Mitochondria
Gents Victorian toilets at Rothesay harbour.
Ticket office at Wemyss Bay Train & Ferry Terminal
Sample page of Scottish Catholic baptism from 1817
Photos shows 1897 birth certificate for Mary Scott & a 1960s photo of a baby in the arms of a woman.
Young woman on a train with crimped hair that was died black.
Harbourside view of Irvine at dusk with boat reflection in the water.
Photo of ghost sign for regalia whisky.
Image of a book by Alan Ramsay Shelley called the Victorian Army at Home.
2 shelves of a bookshelf with 2 pictures on the wall above.
Grey Maine Coon diva of a cat under a Christmas tree almost looking as if she’s wearing a crown tree ornament.
Image from Scotland’s People Facebook page showing details of Christmas Eve free walk in session.
screenshot of the headline Imperial Service Medal awards being given by his majesty the king on 2 July 1938
19th century postmen in their blue uniforms with red trim. Image from the Postal Museum website at https://www.postalmuseum.org/collections/highlights/postal-uniforms/
Young women with quiff hair style standing in front of almost 1960s style wallpaper, but it wasn’t the 1960s