PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.97: HUNTER FAMILY COLLECTION Black leather cover with black leather damaged spine has two sets of double gold bands. Album of photographs by JV and GWW. c.1900.
PA 97
Description PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO.97: HUNTER FAMILY COLLECTION Black leather cover with black leather damaged spine has two sets of double gold bands. Album of photographs by JV and GWW. c.1900.
Date c. 1900
Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Catalogue Number PA 97
Category All Other
Copies PA 97/17/2
Scope and Content Included is an obituary: "Dr James Ernest Moorhouse at 6 Melville Terrace, Stirling, 17th August 1928, aged 58" offering sympathy to wife and daughter; also a view of 6 Allan Park, Stirling and a visiting card of Robert Hunter, MC, BSc, Assoc. M Inst. CE, 6 Allan Park, Stirling. This album also contains the following family announcements; MARRIAGE NOTICES: (Stirling Observer, Tuesday Aug.20 1929) Hunter-Knowles, at Old St Andrews Memorial House, Toronto, Canada on 17 Aug. James Tyrie Hunter (of Imperial Bank of Canada) younger son of Mr and Mrs John Hunter, Dalglennan House, 6 Allan Park, Stirling to Eva, youngest daughter of the late George S Knowles and Mrs Knowles, 22 Alexandra Place, Stirling. (New Zealand Herald, 16 March 1929) Miss Margaret Templeton Reid, third daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Reid, Selkirk to Mr James Anderson Hunter, only son of Mr and Mrs R Hunter of Glasgow at Onehunga Presbyterian Church. Hunter-Carpenter, at the Parish Church, Chorley Wood, Herts., on 6 Feb. 1926, Robert Hunter, eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Hunter to Ethel Rippon, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Carpenter, 13 Osmond Gardens, Hove, Sussex. DEATH NOTICE: Watson, at 1068 Cathcart Road, Glasgow, 13 Feb. 1929, Agnes Hay Hunter wife of Archibald Watson and daughter of the late Robert Hunter. (Note of Testament, leaving 2,183.) MEMORIAL CARD: Elizabeth Grant Anderson (beloved wife of Robert Hunter) b. Leslie, Fife, 3 Dec. 1838, d. Mon.4 Jan 1926 at 346 St George's Road, Glasgow, interred in Cathcart Cemetery (F11) "Death is the messenger of peace and sends the soul to Heaven." There is a photograph taken by F C Inglis, Calton Hill, Edinburgh during the final debate on Union with the Church of Scotland, 24 May 1929 "The last General Assembly of the United Free Church of Scotland", published as a supplement to The Record, July 1929, and a photograph of Rev. A Martin, DD, Principal of New College, Moderator, with his address. Also tipped-in are : an Order of Funeral Service for Rev. Colin Mackenzie, 3 July 1913; programme for the unveiling of Stirling Burgh War Memorial (designed by Mr G R Davidson, Architect, Stirling) 14 Oct.1922 by Field-Marshall Earl Haig, with a note that a Book of Remembrance was in Stirling Public Library; programme for induction of Rev. Charles Chalmers Cowie, St Ninian's North UF Church, with a view of the church, and a signed photograph of Sir George McCrae, Liberal MP for Stirling and Falkirk Burghs, elected 6 Dec. 1923. Finally a MS note headed "Scotland Yet, words by HS Riddel, air by Peter Mcleod", gives the following information: "This song was written at Teviothead in the year 1834 and shewn to the Ettrick Shepherd. Next day it was sent to Mr McLeod who at once set it to music and had it sold in the streets of Edinburgh. The sum realised enabled them to put the iron railings round the Burns Monument on the Calton Hill. It was published in National Melodies, 1838". The note continues with information about the Honours of Scotland and claims "The above information was received from Hunter S Clark, Esq., Lea Park,` by Ayr." Purchased from Donald MacCormick, 19 Braid Crescent, Edinburgh.
Accession Number 1990/32
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