NED THEY ARE BURIED IN WELLOGATE CEMETERY.THE CEMETERY WAS TRANSCRIBED AND RECPRDED BY THE HAWICH ARCHEOLOGY SOCIETY IN THEIR TRANSACTIONS. THIS IS A COPY WITH SOME ANECDOTES WHICH WERE RECORDED AT THE TIME.
8. H.S . (6 yards from B.S.).-In memory of WALTER GRIEVE who died 9th August 1848
aged :2(1 years. The days of his youth hath been shortened. And MARY OLIVER
his wife who died 1'0th March 1902 aged 82 years.
W. G.'s wife same Oliver as John Oliver, Middle Area, IV . 4:4. He had son Michsel
ho left Hawick in 1874 to take up a position with le.rge hosiery manufacturing concern
• Leicester . When 6-0 he retired to Queensborough, dying there January, 1912. His son,
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Thomas S. Grieve, is senior partner of the important firm T. Grieve & Co., Ltd., hosiery
latch needle manufacturers, Queen Street Works, Leicester. ·waiter also had daug. Agnes
who m. Andrew Butler, a Crimea and Indian Mutiny veteran, and an amiable Christian
man 1i,nd worker, issue-William, tailor, m. Janet Shepherd (de.ng. Margaret m. Councillor
John Burns Elliot, cashier, Gas Company); John, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mary, m. Andrew
Turnbull, smith, Selkirk; .and Maggie. Walter had brother, Alexander Grieve, mill fore
·man, d. Galashiels, 30th June, 1848, aged 42; wife, Elizabeth Young, d . 12th March, 1914,
aged 77, issue-Rachel, m. James Mathieson; Barbare.; Elizebeth, m. J ,ames Russell, mason
(family-James, watchmaker; Alexander, m. Margaret Crozier, gran ddal.lghter, Margaret
Williamson, merchant, Kirk Wynd; Elizabeth, m. Robert Gall, gas employee; Ellen, m.
John Young; and ' Charles, hosiery me.nu.facturer, m. Isa, daug. of Robert Elliot, designer,
and Nellie Inglis), and son, Alexander, d. 5th April, 1926, eged 57, actuary, Hawick
Savings Bank, and mana ger , Hawick Heritable Investment Bank, Ltd., who left numerous
benefactions to his nat ive town.
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