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Innes Duffus - Archivist
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KATHERINE MAUDE DUFFUS
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| Subject: Duffus Reunion thankyou Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:19:01 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] David, thank you and your family for putting together such a well-organized function as the "Duffus 2000" reunion. We enjoyed our time there and found the people very accommodating. Our pictures came out nice so thank you for having pleasant weather. I hope to continue using your website. Thanks for a job well done! Tim, Doreen and Pat Marvin. PS Here is my genealogy report for Katherine Maude Duffus. I don't know how to delete the duplications. My Maiden name was Doreen Filipiak. FYI |
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GORDON SETH DUFFUS UPDATES
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| 29 June 2000
David Duffus Dear David, I'm sending all this with the intent to save you some detail work, but no doubt it is still a lot. The report is from "Family Tree Maker 5", and it is in the RTF format so may be easily translated. I think this format is correct and I've highlighted most of the significant changes. At this time I expect you are in scotland and about to experience a memorable gathering. How wonderful and rewarding. Fortunate that we hadn't planned to attend - I had the misfortune in March to have a small stroke (in Florida) and so would have had difficulty with medical insurance and with the stress of travel. You will note that my brother Sidney Miles passed away last September after a battle with prostate cancer and it's runaway to the bones and system. Note that my email address should be changed to <[email protected]> - this handles my mail regardless of my location or server. Will anxiously await future news releases with words of the reunion. Best regards and have a great summer. G. Seth Duffus
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| 11/7/00
Dear David, As promised here is the book which includes three of my short stories We call ourselves the "Inverkeithing Writers" as we all live in and around the Inverkeithing area. The web site address for this is: "www.kennethstirling.co.uk" At the very top of the page you will see the title "Inverkeithing Writers". Please check on this. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed meeting you, Diane and Megan and also for an enjoyable weekend in "Duffus." My email address at work is "[email protected]". Best wishes, Lynn Duffus
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John Duffus of Deskford, Banffshire tree
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| Subject: Reunion Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:34:47 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi David Firstly, I want to say how much we all enjoyed ourselves at the Duffus gathering and appreciated all the work you had obviously put into the days. Secondly, as promised, I am sending you the details I wrote down from an inscription on a grave stone found at St. Nicholas church, Aberdeen. As I told you, I had hoped this family might have been connected to mine as they were all born in the same parish of St Nicholas, but the dates turned out to be wrong when I checked them out with the descendancy chart I gave you. Hopefully it may still be possible to make a connection, but only time will tell. In the meantime you may find the details useful for someone else in their research. I hope you and your family had a good trip back to North Carolina. Best wishes Angela |
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In Memory of John Duffus
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Subject: Grace Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:11:50 +0100 From: "Innes Duffus" <[email protected]> To: "David Duffus" <[email protected]> David I have just come back from visiting Grace's gravestone.You will be moved, as I was, to learn that someone had placed a posy of wild flowers by the stone.They are withered now, but at a guess they could have been put there by a child. There are no flowers growing anywhere in the Howff, nor indeed anywhere nearby, so my guess is that a child had seen the picture in the paper and decided that father or mother should take them to see the stone. Presumably they had picked some flowers in their own garden and taken them with then to place by the stone.Grace has not been forgotten and your act of remembrance has brought its own reward. Innes |
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JOHN GERARD DUFFUS
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Letter from Muriel
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15 Charlotte St. Dundee DD3 8QP Phone 01382 826602 Dear David, Diane and Megan, Muriel and I simply had to write to say how much we enjoyed your company over the last few days. The enormous amount of work done by David, to say nothing of the forbearance of both of his loving wife and daughter were way beyond the line of duty. Fortunately, Megan did not know that she had and Uncle Innes until the weekend, but she will be long remembered by the silly old fool. We trust that you had an enjoyable visit to Edinburgh and now that you are back home, we hope that you are well-rested. All your family will be remembered with great affection and gratitude by folks from all over the world. Again, great Chieftan - many thanks. Yours aye, Innes & Muriel |
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Email from Valerie
Duffus Price
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Subject: Thank You, David! I just had to email you and thank you for all of the work you did in putting together the Duffus/Duffes 2000 Reunion. My sister, Stephanie, her children Ashley and Andrew, and I had a wonderful time. I fell in love with Scotland the minute we drove away from the airport. The mountains, glens, and lochs were beautiful! A week was just too short a time to enjoy the land of my ancestors. I can truly say that I left my heart in the highlands! I cannot begin to imagine the work that went into organizing the gathering. You are to be commended for the energy and dedication you have shown in regard to this wonderful event.I am sorry that the rest of my family could not meet you, our second cousin. Best regards to your wife and daughter... Sincerely, |
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Email from Jim and Judy Duffus |
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Subject: Duffus Reunion 2000 It was our first visit to the Duffus area and,indeed, was a thrill to vist my great great grandfather's farm. Many thanks for making all this possible. Oscar sends his regards (see |
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Email from Councillor Steve Duffus |
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Greetings from Chester UK |
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Letter from Harry Duffus |
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| Newport-on-Tay 17-7-00 Dear David, I hope you are well, now that the dust has settled over
"Duffus 2000." It was a triumph for you in the fulfillment of
a dream, that took a lot of time and work on your part. Congratulations
again. Here are three reminders of that week-end. You will remember them well. Lovely to see you and your wife and family. I thought the Ceilidh was terrific - even if i didn't do my party piece, which I was going to do if we had only a few volunteers. Glad it wasn't needed. Best wishes, Harry
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Email from Gordon Duffus of Virginia
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Subject: Some photos/ 2000 Gathering Let me add my voice to those who have given you well deserved praise for the
job you did arranging the 2000 Duffus Gathering. We all had a great time &
will never forget the experience. Are you starting on the next Gathering?
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Email from Tomique Duffus
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Subject: nice to meet you Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 18:40:05 EDT From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi how are you doing? My name is Tomique Duffus. I was born in Jamaica. I am 18 years old. my grandfather's name is Altiman Duffus. My grandfather always told me that the Duffus family is very large and if we meet someone by the name of Duffus we are most likely to be family. Well more than half of my family live in the State of Maryland, Florida, New York, and I have 2 aunts and 1 uncle who live in London, England. Most of my family live in the state of Maryland. I was in on the internet looking up my family tree and that is wentI saw the Duffus family website so I started to wonder if it was really true what I was seeing. my family started in Scotland that came has a surprise to me but it good to know where you are coming from. My family came from Jamaica to make sure that we get that a better education and not have
to struggle in life to get what want. My grandfather died in 1990 but before
that he traveled in England and America but now we are left without a
grand- father or a grandmother. Can you please e-mail us back at
[email protected] we would really like to hear from you as soon as possible thank you very much............
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Email from Diana LeBrecht nee Duffus
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Subject: Duffus 2000 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:56:12 +0100 From: "JACK LE BRECHT" <[email protected]> To: "davidduffus" <[email protected]> Dear David, What a great gathering !! We all had a fantastic time. It was great to meet so many fellow Duffus's from all over the world. Thank you very much for organising such a wonderful event. Do hope you have managed to get some rest since arriving home. I spent two most interesting mornings in the Record office in Elgin, extremely helpful staff. With their help found the family farm at Boharm and details of the family in the 1841 and 1851 census. Some time will write down for you some more stories of our branch of Duffus. We are now home from Henry's graduation trying to hack our way around a very overgrown garden.
Henry is on holiday in the Canary Islands with friends. Kindest regards to Diane and Megan, it was lovely to meet them at
last. Diana Le Brecht nee Duffus |
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