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This site can now only be accessed by approved users following too many automated bot attacks. Genuine user requests will be granted. Our main family names are WEST and HODGSON and we come mostly from Scotland and the North East of England and we are happy to share information with other genuine Family History enthusiasts.

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Why is this site Victory4 ?

If you wondering why the site is Victory4 it is because Tom's Grandfather was a Salmon and Lobster Fisherman. His first working boat, a carvel built punt, was Victory(1), named after the training ship he started in the RNR in WW1. The punt was old when he first had it and was eventually replaced with a clinker built rowing boat Victory(2). A while after his death in 1963 my father sold Victory(2) because of the maintenance as she was only used when we were on holiday, and replaced her with a fiberglass built rowing boat Victory(3). Alas I have no boat but this website is my vessel of choice for telling our story, hence Victory4.

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Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead
Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead
Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead which was formerly Thomas West Tailors Shop Skelton St Peterhead. Elise Bruce was Thomas West's great niece

The Shop went onto be Elsie's hardware store 
Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead
Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead
Chipper Elsie's Shop Skelton St Peterhead which was formerly Thomas West Tailors Shop Skelton St Peterhead. Elise Bruce was Thomas West's great niece.

The Shop went onto be Elsie's hardware store. Out front are her Husband Thomas Bruce and son John Bruce 
1910 Father & Son
1910 Father & Son
Around 1910 James Summers and John Forman Summers 
Mary Jane Jones
Mary Jane Jones
Mary Jane Jones 1831-1867 daughter of Elizabeth Gallaway 

Individuals

WEST, William
   b. 15 Jun 1727, Down, Gamrie,Banff,Scotland
BRUCE, Elsie Elizabeth
   b. 1917, Peterhead, Aberdeen
SCOTT, Isabella
   b. c.1727
SCOTT, Margaret
   b. 1745
SMITH, John
   b. c.1736, Aberdeen Scotland
GLENWRIGHT, Mary
   b. Jul 1769, Whittley, Northumberland
MARTIN, John
   b. Aug 1771, Whitley Chapel, Hexham, Northumberland
MARTIN, William
   b. Dec 1796, Litteridge, hexham, Northumberland

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Our West, Lawson and Jack ancestors from Scotland and Hodgson ancestors from the North of England