John Anderson RNVR Auchterarder

[b1b2j3]

I cannot post this photograph on site until we sort out who they are and gain permission, governance about the photograph itself.

Bron

[MonicaL]

Hi Bron

That's great that you have now made contact  You might want to edit your post with your  personal email on it (just use the modify button on the specific post) before it is sapped into oblivion by the Mods! Best way to exchange personal emails is through the PM system 

Monica

[b1b2j3]

thank you. You may blot out my email. It's just that, there is no connection as yet and I have the strongest virus scan, vigilantee programs as compared to my cousins.

Many thanks though,

Bron, blot me out bigpond

[sula sgeir]

I'd also like to make the point that Monica has been very helpful in researching details, such as the register entry in Grimsby for John's marriage to his beloved Ella, the death certificate entries for John Anderson and his Aunt Margret Duff (nee Anderson) which is information I previously did not have. See also the numerous earlier  posts in the story from Monica.  

[b1b2j3]

Great to hear this. Monica has us connected? Your Cousins await a reply.

Bron

[b1b2j3]

Duh bron, one (me) is a dumb bum- Mods means moderators. Well so be it. Blot my email out. Trying to get our Cousin to reply private, despite all efforts. I still have my independent / independency of action here.

bron

[MonicaL]

Sula has asked me to post another photo from the album!

[MonicaL]

From Sula's notes:

Photo dating from about 1934/5
 
John Anderson is top right - just in front of him  his daughter Elizabeth Janet Forbes, aged about 15 / 16 - on her right is John's sister Janet Anderson(glasses), and on her right is John's other sister Margaret Eadie Anderson (QARANC in World War 1), on her right is a younger woman whose identity I don't know but I believe she died quite young - perhaps the daughter of Margaret Duff. At the back is John's Aunt, Margaret Duff (nee Anderson) the mother of John and Robert Duff (one of whom is probably taking the photograph).

After WW2  a 'New Town' was built at Cumbernauld as at others such as Milton Keynes, and Harlow in Essex, in the 1960s and it is possible that Ravenswood went under the concrete. The farmhouse was quite 'mansion like' as seen in another photo. I think the original village of Cumbernauld lies beside a nearby motorway.
 
John Anderson and his Aunt died within a few days of each other in 1942.
 
Neither Janet or Margaret married - a dearth of young men after WW1 ?
 
I believe Janet was house-keeper to a doctor and his family at St Leonards on Sea, Sussex.

 
The setting of the photo is Ravenswood Farm, Cumbernauld, near Stirling. The farm was run by the brothers John and Robert Duff, sons of Margaret. I think their father died quite early.

[MonicaL]

Bron, don't get upset if you are blotted out  It's only done by the moderators at RootsChat to prevent your email being used by bad people (spammers and the like). It is just the forum's policy to use the PM service to exchange personal emails for that reason