User talk:Randall O

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John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes

You recently reverted a correction that I made to John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes. You could have the correct answer, but could you please back it up with a reference? Working on the list in Earl of Crawford, there does not appear to be a John Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford. The 10th Earl of Crawford is David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford. There is a John Leslie as the John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay, as well as the 19th and 20th Earl of Crawford. If your change is correct, then the Earl of Crawford page also needs to get updated because it is wrong. Otherwise, I move to keep the number at 17 where I had it which is most likely to be correct because of the timeframe. JRP 00:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The man in question was the son of Alexander Lindsay. His mother was Jean Sinclair, she was the daughter of Henry Sinclair 3 Lord Sinclair. These people in question are my kin, i know the history well. The Royal genealogy is linked to these people. I have a lot more information, but it will be copyrighted. I wrote the first story on the first Duke of Rothes. Under the number 226. I also wrote the item on Joan Chaworth.

I certainly believe you, but the existing Wikipedia page is pretty clear that there isn't a 10th Earl of Crawford named John Lindsay. I just want the right information in the article. Can you provide a resource that says definitively one way or the other. The Earl of Crawford page doesn't have a good reference either so I have no idea how trustworthy that list is. JRP 01:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I will give at least 3 references for my statement. Give me a day or two. Many members of the nobility were very related to each other. On the 5th Earl of Rothes, his step-brothers were involed in the murder of Cardinal Beaton. But cardinal Beaton was also their kin. On Sir James Ormond, he was the brother of John Ormond esq. of Alfreton. The name was spelled Ormond. This is the spelling on the brass to him in Alfreton church. But at times, it was in later years spelled Ormand.

You may return the title 17 Earl of Crawford, because a mistake was made by a National Trust site and a painting of the family was listed wrong. This should have been found earlier, being there were tours of the castle with this mistake repeated. Most likely this was caused by the names being the same. This is one that slipped by me and them.

That's excellent. I'm sorry for being persistent, I just like lists and when they are consistent. While you are at it, can you check out James Ormonde and help clarify Piers Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde or Piers Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde? According to the list (which again, I can't verify) Earl of Ormonde, Piers Butler was the 1st Earl of the third creation, because of some maddness with Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Ormonde. You changed it to 7th which the list claims to be Thomas Butler. Should I change this back also? JRP 01:12, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas was the brother of John 6th Earl of Ormonde, Thomas was the 7th Earl of Ormonde. Thomas nearly always signed his name as Thomas Ormond. That made Piers 8th Earl of Ormonde. John 6th Earl died in the Holy Land, he had earlier met with the Pope in Rome. Thomas had given Sir James Ormond, power of attorney over his estates in Ireland. Thomas Boleyn or Bullin, was kin to Joan Chaworth. The Duke of Somerset met his fate with Thomas Boleyn on the chopping block. Lady Anne Stahope was the wife of the Duke of Somerset. This can be seen on her tomb which shows the different coats of arms of the allied families. Her Great-grandson Philip was created Earl of Chesterfield.

Got it. Can you update Earl of Ormonde with that information since that must be wrong. I'll make the note that Piers was 8th Earl... (You changed the link to 7th, I think.) Also, when you start a line with spaces, it makes the comments really hard to read. Try starting them with ":" to do nesting, instead. :) JRP

John Hutchinson

Thanks for the additions you made to John Hutchinson. If you want to upload a photo, there is an option to upload a file on the left tool bar.--nixie 02:05, 27 August 2005 (UTC) The rarely stated assertion that John Ormond of Alfreton was the son of John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond(e), is made fully and in: The Butler family of Ireland, Earls of Ormond, etc., Ninth Volume: ‘The First To Seventh Earl of Ormond'. T. Blake Butler Printed privately about 1962[reply]

John and James's mother is there given as Reynalda, daughter of Turlogh "The Brown" O'Brien, King of Thomond (d 1460).

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Ron Ormond

Please see Talk:Film producer to join in a discussion about why I removed this entry. Thanks. Notinasnaid 10:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sir John Byron

With all due repect the article on Sir John Byron, largely written by yourself, appears to have significant inaccuracy. The Sir John Byron to whom I believe you refer died in 1576, and it was his grandson, also called Sir John Byron, that sired the Margaret who went on to marry Thomas Hutchinson (MP); it was this latter John Byron's grandson (not son), who went on to become John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, as named in the article.

I have not edited the article, since I would first be interested to know what sources you were using; mine were the book 'Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchison' by Lucy Hutchinson, and a website on the history of Nottinghamshire

Matisia 20:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this is the Sir John Byron, of Clayton. Who was knighted, by Elizabeth I of England in 1579. His wife was Alice Strelleye. I forgot to create an article on his father. He was also named, Sir John Byron. I have paintings of all of them. These paintings will be posted later. Also more will be added, to each article. Most of the birth dates, i list are from the tombs and other sources. Some of my sources, are my family history, and several books i have on the English Civil Wars.

Thanks; I look forward to seeing the article on the father!

Matisia 07:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citing sources

Thanks for your work on articles about English nobility. I assume that the information which you added is coming from solid sources, but you should name them so that other users can verify the information and readers can get reliable information from your articles. This is a basic Wikipedia policy, you can read about it here or here. See Wikipedia:Citing sources if you are unsure about the format of the citations. And please, when other users correct typos or add appropriate categories to an article, don't revert them to insert the errors again. Regards, High on a tree 14:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

David Omand

Hi. Some nice work, but please check your information in fields with which you are less familiar :-) Sir David Omand really does spell his name that way: http://www.windsorleadershiptrust.org.uk/en/1/domand.html Myopic Bookworm 14:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing the unsigned comment on my page is from you. I gave you one reference above. On the Home Office Site Ormand gets no matches, Omand gets two. On the Downing Street website Ormand gets no matches, Omand gets eight. Here is the notice of his security appointment, and here is the announcement of his appointment to the Natural History museum. In the 2002 edition of Who's Who he is listed as OMAND, Sir David (Bruce), in between Julia OMAN and Margaret O'MARA. I think that's enough evidence. Myopic Bookworm 10:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS To sign and date a comment, put four tildes (~ x4). It's nicer that way. Myopic Bookworm 10:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To anyone reading this, here is my case. http://cryptome.sabotage.org/da-notice.htm#committee His name here, is Sir David Bruce Ormand. The site speaks for itself.

The site you mention does indeed speak for itself. It is not an "official" British site, it is an amateur website for intelligence and security enthusiasts. Clearly they cannot spell accurately. Checking means finding further reliable verification of your information, not just believing the first website you stumble across. The original government site from which they copied their information several years ago has now been updated, so the information is no longer there to be verified. I have given links to current, not outdated sites, and to official, not to amateur sites: also to a respected print publication (Who's Who). Have you actually looked at any of them? Here is Sir David Omand's current web page at the Natural History museum. Myopic Bookworm 09:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That,s nice but i have just as many sites with the Ormand spelling. Also the point, is why were there so many sites with different spellings of the name. I did not stumble across this information, as you inplied. As i said, it was on several different sites. I even checked it on the Home Office site, in the year 2000. It was spelled Ormand there as well. This was an offical site at that time.

The reason why so many sites have the wrong spelling is that Omand is a relatively unusual name. All it takes is one person to assume that it must be a mistake for Ormand, and then lots of other people will copy the information without checking. Wikipedia aims to be better than that: hence the constant requests for citations and references. Sheer number of websites is no guide if they are all lifting information from each other, which is why it is worth checking current websites, ignoring the ones which look a bit crappy, and try to find printed sources as well. No one can verify what you say about what the Home Office website said seven years ago. I once did a survey and found several thousand websites which referred to a well known southern English town as Southapton, and I can guarantee you'll find loads of information about someone called "Ghandi". Myopic Bookworm 13:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found them on my other hardrive, here are a few http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/politics/626455.stm also the the UK Gov. site http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/foi/pdf/chequers0106.pdf and many others. I think they need a few proof readers. Many are offical sites of the UK Goverment.

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I did indeed read the whole article that you wrote, which did not take very long as it is short and repetitive. The award you have written about is for a local boating club, and a Google search returned a whopping five results. The award does not pass [WP:NOTE|Wikipedia notability standards]] by any means, and should be deleted. Realkyhick 15:24, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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