Bev Smith in Australia sent me this message, “The people I am trying to learn more about are Thomas Gemmell and Agness Jackson. I prefer Agness to Agnes, as it was written that way in an old family Bible. She was born or baptised 3.3.1800 in Blantyre. Agness’s parents were Robert Jackson & Janet Gardiner. There […]
In 1935, some 6 years after the opening of the David Livingstone Memorial, some further possessions of the Explorer were added to the collection. In April 1935, the additions consisted of a large number of miscellaneous articles, including the contents of a medicine case, that came from the house in Rothesay-terrace, Edinburgh, occupied till her […]
Jim Cochrane shared another family photo, adding, “My Gran Cochranes Sister Agnes (Melville) .This picture dates from about 1940 when she joined the Womans Land Army. Agnes was posted to farms in the North East of Scotland mostly Morayshire where she worked on various farms . She found that she liked farm life and the […]
From 1923, on the left is my grandmother Mary Danskin (later to become Duncan). In the middle is my great grandmother Agnes Danskin (nee Hunter) and on the right my gran’s sister. At the time, the family owned the drapers shop at the corner of Broompark Road/ Stonefield Road which we now recognise as the […]