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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: 1841 CURRIE, a lost family!
« on: Wednesday 19 September 07 05:29 BST (UK) »
Hi SED:
You're close, but not quite. Actually I spent a lot of time as a teenager helping my father haul artifacts into the Wingham museum, when it was first created. So I'm quite familiar with it. There is a good portrait of Robert Currie there, which I've attached a photo of here.
Somebody has moved Margaret's headstone (with the single rose) within the past year or so, which is a bit disturbing. It used to be one of many laying side-by-side on the ground along the tree line. I almost gave up on finding it, before uncovering it beneath a large pile of scrub brush, which I cleared. But when I returned about 2 years later it had been covered again? I originally located it and the ones in Elora through the following web site:
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/
No additional info in the book on James other than he died the winter of 1853/54 in Guelph Township, unmarried. So your tidbit about him parishing while working on the roads there is likely correct.
The Bible and papers were last reported to be in the possession of another branch of the family (Bob and Andrew). Who knows where it could be now? Hopefully it is still around somewhere.
I'd love to join you at the Wellington Museum to do some fact hunting, as I live not too far from there, but unfortunately am booked elsewhere this weekend.
Good Luck!
JKC
You're close, but not quite. Actually I spent a lot of time as a teenager helping my father haul artifacts into the Wingham museum, when it was first created. So I'm quite familiar with it. There is a good portrait of Robert Currie there, which I've attached a photo of here.
Somebody has moved Margaret's headstone (with the single rose) within the past year or so, which is a bit disturbing. It used to be one of many laying side-by-side on the ground along the tree line. I almost gave up on finding it, before uncovering it beneath a large pile of scrub brush, which I cleared. But when I returned about 2 years later it had been covered again? I originally located it and the ones in Elora through the following web site:
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/
No additional info in the book on James other than he died the winter of 1853/54 in Guelph Township, unmarried. So your tidbit about him parishing while working on the roads there is likely correct.
The Bible and papers were last reported to be in the possession of another branch of the family (Bob and Andrew). Who knows where it could be now? Hopefully it is still around somewhere.
I'd love to join you at the Wellington Museum to do some fact hunting, as I live not too far from there, but unfortunately am booked elsewhere this weekend.
Good Luck!
JKC