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Rolfe surname Posted by Linda Forbes on 05 December 2009 Just noticing your request about the name 'Rolfe'. This particular Rolfe was a pupil of mine when I taught in Salford. He manged to track me down in Hoy. [Happily!!] Unfortunately in this instance I can't be of much further assistance best wishes Ron Posted by ron bulmer on 06 January 2010  Old Man of Hoy, in more ways than one I climbed the Old Man of Hoy 20 years ago. I see that Ron Bulmer is now working in the Orkneys. It was he who taught me to climb some 28 years ago! (If anyone comes on here who knows Ron, please mention me to him: my name used to be Ian Pendlebury, he might remember me from Buile Hill High School) Posted by Ian Stranack on 24 March 2009 Ian; just chasing things up; We now have broadband on Hoy [well two tin cans with string];but I can't access my Orkney.gov email; very frustratating! So just to keep in tooch, & please pass my email onto Bob Rolfe [and indeed whoever from the old clan]. BUT it would be really good to do the reunion thing on Hoy; 2010; hope all well best wishes Ron Posted by ron bulmer on 29 June 2009 lost at sea hi my dad and 6 of his shipmates were lost in 19.53 .when there ship ran aground .at the old man of hoy .it was the leicester city .i was 6 yrs old .i also had 3 brothers older than me .i always said that when i could afford it i will make the jurney from grimsby to hoy to the spot were they died .we are going in june .i have spoken to a man called terry who is on the board .and he said that his wifes dad was one of the men who helped in the rescue of the other crew members .he has also said that he can put us up as they have a b.b..so we are looking forward to going .as my wife mother was scottish who lived in inverness and worked on the herring boats ....... Posted by lol hunt on 08 February 2009 Sorry good man, but your description of the site of the leicester city is many miles off course. The remains of the wreck lie at Braebuster below farmland. Look forward to meeting you. Posted by Terry on 10 February 2009 Looking good Your site's looking good, and the header image is abeauty even if I say so myself! [P.S. If you find that big images are pushing the right hand column to the side make hspace zero in the image properties. I've done that for you on your home page image. Cheers, Steven] Posted by Steven Heddle on 09 June 2008 Dev Trust Greetings from the Shapinsay Development Trust Nice website Posted by Debbie on 08 May 2008 Thank you you are too kind. Posted by Terry on 10 February 2009 |
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I noticed mention of this name on an earlier message. One of my neighbours in Leamington Spa was Lorna Rolfe, whose parents were first cousins from Orkney. Her grandfather Rolfe was a fishing skipper who managed the Bellevue Hotel in St Margaret's Hope in the 1920s (she thinks) before heading south to work out of Grimsby and later dying in Northamptonshire. She's been trying to find more of this family in Orkney and also the burial site of her grandfather without success. If anyone can provide any leads it would be great. I am now living in Stromness and able to visit graveyards etc locally on Lorna's behalf.
Thanks in advance and hope to hear back from someone - even if only to say that nothing is known.