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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« on: Tuesday 07 June 16 23:49 BST (UK) »
You're welcome, I'm glad I could get them for you. And yes of course you can use them on your tree!
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Renfrewshire / Re: Cathcart Cemetery - Ref compartment n Lair no 2134
« on: Tuesday 07 June 16 20:33 BST (UK) »
PM sent with photos 
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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« on: Tuesday 07 June 16 20:33 BST (UK) »
PM sent with photos
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Renfrewshire / Re: Cathcart Cemetery - Ref compartment n Lair no 2134
« on: Monday 06 June 16 23:26 BST (UK) »
Hi, I can have a look again for you in Cathcart if you like. I'm getting a photo for someone else on the forum and am familiar with the territory so it's no problem.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« on: Monday 06 June 16 23:09 BST (UK) »
Hi, I'll have a look for you and get photos if there's a stone
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Perthshire / Florence Mercer Hunt b. 1885, masseuse - Scone, Perth + Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 26 October 14 15:58 GMT (UK) »
Hello
I'm posting on behalf of my dad who is interested in finding information on this woman who he believes was the model for a war memorial by a sculptor he researches. She seems to be quite an interesting person as she worked as a medical masseuse, a new field at the time (that would now be called physiotherapy), which came into it's own during WW1. We haven't been able to find anything on her career or war service yet as the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists records are down at the Wellcome Library in London. It would be nice to know a bit more about her than just dates.
This is what we know:
Florence Mercer Hunt
b. 24/4/1885, Vine Bank, Scone
d. 1974, Edinburgh. She lived at 33 Manor Place until at least 1957. She never married.
Parents were James Hunt and Marjory Brough
She was the youngest of 7 siblings and seems to have been closest to her sister Marjorie Anne Hunt 1880 - 1969
Marjorie married John Ritchie, a solicitor, 1913 in Edinburgh. He died in 1922
We believe Florence lived with her widowed sister for a time in the 1920s at 47 Polwarth Gardens, Edinburgh. (next door to Alexander Carrick, the sculptor in question)
Because the records are too modern I haven't been able to find out if there were any children, however there is an interesting record of an Anne Brough Ritchie b. 1916 Dunbarney, Perth. She married Frederick George Wyatt, 1945, Kinloss Moray (suggesting an RAF connection?).
Her other siblings were
- Agnes Brough Hunt 1869 - 1919. no marriage
- James Hunt b. 1872
- John Hunt b. 1874, Tailor
One of these brothers emigrated to Canada. She visited her brother J. Ritchie in Toronto in 1929
- Frederick Ninian Hunt 1876/7 - 1948 Draper, became Provost of Crieff
m. Helen Dawson Coubrough, 1905 in Falkirk
- Henry Ward Hunt 1881 - 1950
m. Muriel Evelyn Randolph, Queensferry, 1908
If anyone has any info we would appreciate them getting in touch. Thanks in advance.
I'm posting on behalf of my dad who is interested in finding information on this woman who he believes was the model for a war memorial by a sculptor he researches. She seems to be quite an interesting person as she worked as a medical masseuse, a new field at the time (that would now be called physiotherapy), which came into it's own during WW1. We haven't been able to find anything on her career or war service yet as the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists records are down at the Wellcome Library in London. It would be nice to know a bit more about her than just dates.
This is what we know:
Florence Mercer Hunt
b. 24/4/1885, Vine Bank, Scone
d. 1974, Edinburgh. She lived at 33 Manor Place until at least 1957. She never married.
Parents were James Hunt and Marjory Brough
She was the youngest of 7 siblings and seems to have been closest to her sister Marjorie Anne Hunt 1880 - 1969
Marjorie married John Ritchie, a solicitor, 1913 in Edinburgh. He died in 1922
We believe Florence lived with her widowed sister for a time in the 1920s at 47 Polwarth Gardens, Edinburgh. (next door to Alexander Carrick, the sculptor in question)
Because the records are too modern I haven't been able to find out if there were any children, however there is an interesting record of an Anne Brough Ritchie b. 1916 Dunbarney, Perth. She married Frederick George Wyatt, 1945, Kinloss Moray (suggesting an RAF connection?).
Her other siblings were
- Agnes Brough Hunt 1869 - 1919. no marriage
- James Hunt b. 1872
- John Hunt b. 1874, Tailor
One of these brothers emigrated to Canada. She visited her brother J. Ritchie in Toronto in 1929
- Frederick Ninian Hunt 1876/7 - 1948 Draper, became Provost of Crieff
m. Helen Dawson Coubrough, 1905 in Falkirk
- Henry Ward Hunt 1881 - 1950
m. Muriel Evelyn Randolph, Queensferry, 1908
If anyone has any info we would appreciate them getting in touch. Thanks in advance.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Looking for family gravestone in Cathcart cemetery
« on: Saturday 05 April 14 20:41 BST (UK) »
Hi, just wondered if you got a photo? I live nearby and can also visit if you've both been unable to. Don't want to tread on anyone's toes, but thought I would offer since it's been a couple of months 
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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« on: Monday 03 March 14 21:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi, sorry internet problems meant I gave up trying to load anything yesterday. I found the lair but I'm afraid there's no headstone. I did search the area round about in case there was a tablet that had been displaced or broken and I didn't see anything.
I've attached a pic anyway. The stone lying down is 279, for once it's clearly marked, and 280 is to the right.
I've attached a pic anyway. The stone lying down is 279, for once it's clearly marked, and 280 is to the right.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Cathcart, Cathcart Old Parish and Linn
« on: Wednesday 26 February 14 18:02 GMT (UK) »
That's great. I'll go and take a look at the weekend, weather permitting.
It doesn't seem to have been that uncommon, having other people buried in the lair who weren't close family. We discovered a neighbour in a family plot, so it could be that John Harvey isn't related at all!
It doesn't seem to have been that uncommon, having other people buried in the lair who weren't close family. We discovered a neighbour in a family plot, so it could be that John Harvey isn't related at all!