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Stirlingshire / Re: The PAUL's Killearn
« on: Monday 02 November 09 16:21 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Anne,
All that is a great help!
Yes, my father WAS the youngest - he was born in 1906.
However, it was a real surprise to me to learn that my father had another sister, Mary born about 1900!
I never knew anything about this - although I do have an old photo of my father and his brother Robert at Killearn School and there is Mary Mc Nicol in the photo but no sign of Grace. I though perhaps that there had been a mistake and that Mary was Grace.
I knew my uncle Robert and Aunt Grace well, but did not know about Mary.
Perhaps Grace attended another school??

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Stirlingshire / Re: The PAUL's Killearn
« on: Monday 02 November 09 10:49 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Paul's of Killearn. I am having difficulty in tracing the following:
My grandfather, Robert Mc Nicol, was born 7th August 1863 @  Killearn to James Mc Nicol & Mary Fairlie. He Married Jemina Taylor on 21st April 1893. He was a Gardener and lived at Craighat Cottage, Killearn. He had 3 children William Archibald (my father); Robert and Grace [or Gracie]
I have no record of his or Jemina's deaths, but assume that they died in Killearn and are buried there.
Also, I understand that my grandfather was a Lay preacher - I don't know quite what this means. Could this be with the local Church of Scotland or was there a branch of the 'Plymouth Brethren' in Killearn at that time.
As all my relatives are dead now, I cannot get any information from that source.
Can you please help in any way?
I now reside in Cornwall, so it is not easy for me to get up to Killearn for myself to do research.
Thanks, :)
William Mc Nicol

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