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stoop
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Evening cupcake, perhaps you are referring to Linda Cannon as I recall she was a redhead. Next door lived the Wilsons. Regards stoop.
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audrey
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Hi to anybody that can help I have been trying to trace my Great grandmother Mary Douglas who was born Dumfries c 1834 parents unknown the only lead I have ever found is this birth cert for her grandson details from the cert. below
John Sewell born 24 /12/1885 at Green brae Loaning Greenbrae in the county of Dumfries
father John Sewell, Iron worker
mother Catherine Sewell Maiden Surname Henry[ visitor ]home address Workington Cumberland
Audrey
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eccles
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Thank you so much for that, Kojak!
Robert & his brother William were about 10 yrs younger than my Grandma, it's nice to see them in 'context' with other families - and learn how busy the road was!
William died in 1934, aged 40, leaving 5 children, and Robert went on til 57, and had 11 children, so there's a good chance there are a few 2nd cousins around.
Eccles
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777dixie
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Hi Kojak, and all at Greenbrae forum, i am totally new to forum I found it by accident while trying to find out about a subject about the loaning, I through illness attend a gym class for rehab to breathing, and to show how small a world it is met up with a face from the past, in fact the daughter of the late "kiddie" Houston the grandfather of the present owner of JB Houston's which was originally owned by Blaw McLaughlin & Kiddie Houston in ninety something, I started my working life as first message boy when the shop opened, enough ,the question I am trying to answer is prior to the shop opening where was the butchers shop in greenbrae loaning?, my memory tell's me that it was carried out from the first little cottage on the left hand side as you enter from the Lockerbie road( the shop now has a car park there, there was the cottage then a gate ,high wall and outbuilding with a sloping roof and if i recall the owner was either Jimmy or Wully Swan? who had a brother at the farm at the bottom of the loaning, I, by the way lived at Ivy Cottage across from the shop and remember all the names I have read in the forum ie. the Cannon's, Currie's, Johnstone's,The Goldies in Woodbine cottage,the Wilson's Father played goallie for Clyde FC, Goodwin's shop in Lockerbie rd, I could go on and on , in G/B Place Etc, Etc and all points I was born and raised there from 1942 until 1968 when I got married and moved on,but would appreciate if someone could help with an answer to the butcher's baffle
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777dixie
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Kojak can I edit that I said ninty something should have been fifty something ,its an age thing 
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stoop
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hello dixie, perhaps you can remember my family of Owen, my dad was Harry and my mother Jean we lived at number 3 and and number 4 Lindsay Place, my grandmother lived at no. 3 and we in no. 4, my dad was in the T.A. My best friend was Bryden Goldie.We regularly used to take tattie peelings to Mr. Swan and get apples in exchange. I left Dumfries in 1959 and moved to Liverpool with my family, it was just as Beeching was wielding his axe on the railway, my dad was working as a guard on the railway. Obviously I have lots of memories, regards stoop.
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777dixie
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Stoop Hi, Dixie here thanks for the reply I'm struggling with the name Owen but I went to school with Beth Goldie, you say you left 1959, my dad worked on the railway as a driver and I was the last apprentice fitter before the shed's were closed by Beeching I got out just before and went to ICI, you may have been there at the time I spoke about Re the Butchers have you any memories of that bit I'm sure that I am correct but you like someone else to agree with you. Cheers speak soon, Dixie
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stoop
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Hi Dixie, my recollection of the butchers is that it has always occupied the position that it is in today . That suggests that maybe just a couple of years before it had been located in the first building as you came into Greenbrae Loaning. I was a couple of years younger than Beth so did not play with her, my friends were Bryden , Andy Wilson, Charlie Mckee, and the Turnbull twins. Regards stoop alias Roger.
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777dixie
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Kojak Hi, still trying to get used to these hit names but will get there I would appreciate any help with the question re butcher's shop, I lived across from the shop in Ivy Cottage and although very young can remember my old granny sending me for meat to the gate next to the cottage when you got inside the gate it opened up to a yard with a lean-to building on your right hand side and the back door to the house on the left, the butchering was done in the building to the right, and the as now shop was only single story then mind goes blank on what the shop was used for???. thanks Bert (AKA, 777dixie)
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kojak
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Hi Bert,
I will endeavour to look through my valuation roll copies this weekend - probably on Sunday. Will post my findings. The roll records may indicate when the butcher shop location changed etc.
Best regards,
Kenny
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Green, Gibson, Ross, Telfer, Jardine, Hay, Kennedy, Dickson, in Dumfriesshire esp Lochmaben and Kirkcudbright
Thom (Banffshire and Renfrewshire), Cormack & McBain in Ross and Cromerty and Banffshire/Aberdeenshire
McClelland, MacNeill, MacCully, Carson, Northern Ireland
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777dixie
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Hi Kenny would appreciate any info at all on the shop, as said I go to gym with the present owner's aunt and I was the first message boy when I was still at Noblehill School. cheers,
Bert
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flower power
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Hi
I lived in Greenbrae Loaning for 15 years, and remember well Bryden and Beth Goldie, Roger Owen who had a young brother, (but I can't remember his name) also the Cannon family, The Turnbull twins Ian and Allan, who lived in Kirkowens Street, but spent much of their time at their Grannie's house ( she was Mrs Young who had a daughter Margaret) the Currie family, and the Johnstone's too, and the Dickson family. I also remember most of the families who lived in Greenbrae Place and of course Kiddie Houston the butcher, his sons John and Bert (newspaper reporter) and let's not forget Bob Goodwin's shop just round the corner on the Lockerbie Road.
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777dixie
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Flower Power Hi, Good to here from you its a small world now, I am pleased to here that you remember all the folks at greenbrae especially the Dicksons ( Thats me I lived at Ivy cottage 1942- 1968 what 15 years were you there? ) I can remember G/B Place when it was a field and belonged to Swan the farmer at the bottom of the loaning and the the Blackburn all metal houses were built I can remember all the first occupants as our back garden joined the field, now live in the Kettleholm area of Lockerbie. Bert (777dixie)
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stoop
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Hi all can you all remember the monumental masons at the bottom of the Loaning( Harness). I have photograph of the party held for the Queens coronation it was in the field of John Swan at the back of the cottages down the loaning. As a young lad I remember the time we went train spotting from the Georgetown bridge, waiting for the Thames Clyde express at six every evening. I n winter it was sliding down the loaning on the ice wearing our tackety boots. Going to the Lochar Moss collecting wild flowers with our parents and picking brambles in Autumn. Halloween was always so special as it seemed most adults had made treacle toffee or fudge and when we were invited indoors there was chappit tatties and hidden sixpences. Money did not come into it, but enough sweets given to last until Christmas. Sorry about the sentimentality but I do believe as children we had it good regards stoop.
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