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by Currie
Sat Nov 20, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Amusing Incident?
Replies: 12
Views: 922

Re: An Amusing Incident?

Thanks Meg, And to finish off this thread is a story that’s a bit of a haunt. Dundee Courier, Monday, October 6, 1913 DUNDEE'S HAUNTED HOUSE. “SPECTRE” APPEARS IN THE HILLTOWN AND WAVES GLEAMING HAND TO CROWD. Dundee possesses a ghost. It is not a wandering spirit, stalking abroad at dead of night t...
by Currie
Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Amusing Incident?
Replies: 12
Views: 922

Re: An Amusing Incident?

Thanks all, Yet another resurrection, yet another terrified family. Dundee Courier, Thursday, September 19, 1935 WIFE “IDENTIFIES” BODY. Amazing Mistake. Husband Found Asleep at Home When a man collapsed in a Glasgow street a little girl thought he was her uncle. So he was carried to her parents’ ho...
by Currie
Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 6 Elder Park St, Govan - in 1912, what was here?
Replies: 4
Views: 350

Re: 6 Elder Park St, Govan - in 1912, what was here?

In the Glasgow Directories for 1911/12, 1912/13 and 1913/14 there are three names against 6 Elder Park Street.

M’Intyre, D., Stewart, J., and Crichton, J.

https://archive.org/details/postofficea ... ew=theater

Alan
by Currie
Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:57 pm
Forum: My Scotland
Topic: One person's scramble is another's poor-oot
Replies: 5
Views: 1251

Re: One person's scramble is another's poor-oot

Dundee Courier, Tuesday, January 10, 1939 https://imgur.com/a/T05vmv8 The caption of the photograph reads, “LADIES FIRST didn’t apply to the scramble for coppers after the wedding in Errol of “Red” Thomson and Miss Henderson. That is, unless they were able to hold their own in the battle, as one you...
by Currie
Mon Nov 01, 2021 10:48 am
Forum: My Scotland
Topic: One person's scramble is another's poor-oot
Replies: 5
Views: 1251

Re: One person's scramble is another's poor-oot

Hello Douglas and John, The Herald, 30 June 2015 THE Scots Word of the Week (The Herald, June 27), “poor oot”, an old Edinburgh expression for the throwing out of coins for children to catch prior to a wedding, reminded me that as youngster in Greenock during the war we had a different expression. W...
by Currie
Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brave Mr Twinker
Replies: 0
Views: 296

Brave Mr Twinker

Brave Mr Twinker Do Scotsmen dream about being Lord Mayor of London? I’m not sure if this is a Scottish story or from further south. There aren’t any Twinkers in the ScotlandsPeople records but then it seems there has never been anyone by that name, anywhere in the UK, ever. That seems a bit odd as ...
by Currie
Wed Oct 27, 2021 9:06 am
Forum: OPRs and others
Topic: Married or not
Replies: 2
Views: 527

Re: Married or not

Hello Julie, One of your previous posts with more detail of the family. http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3717&hilit=janet+marshall According to the FamilySearch Wiki page for Bathgate parish there are records of only eight marriages between 1785 and 1811. That’s an average of abo...
by Currie
Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Amusing Incident?
Replies: 12
Views: 922

Re: An Amusing Incident?

Thanks everyone. There’s not much else doing on the asylum front, but here’s another case of mistaken identity, and another happy ending. Fife Herald, Thursday, September 30, 1847 A BURIED WOMAN ALIVE. (From the Glasgow Examiner.) “Truth is strange, stranger than fiction,” and the following story is...
by Currie
Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An Amusing Incident?
Replies: 12
Views: 922

An Amusing Incident?

Paisley Herald, Saturday, March 26, 1859 AN AMUSING INCIDENT. THE WRONG MAN SENT TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM. On Wednesday last, a carter named John Russell was apprehended by the police on a charge of having, on that day, by careless driving, fractured a man’s leg in High Street. The case against Russell a...
by Currie
Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:33 am
Forum: Scottish People
Topic: Thomas Forrest and Marion Watt
Replies: 5
Views: 503

Re: Thomas Forrest and Marion Watt

Hello Heidi,

The duties of the Farm Steward are defined in “The Book of the Farm” published 1854.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition ... frontcover

All the best,
Alan