My goodness.
This is all WONDERFUL. Thank you so very much!
I see Sloan's shop is a Protected Building...
No.208 here http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qro/
I'm so glad to read this and hope it means the new owners have kept the interior of the shop the same. I remember the tall mahogony counters from my childhood and they still had those little tubes you put money in that went on a pulley system across the ceiling. There were also wrought iron spiral staircases to the storerooms and hundreds of little nooks and cranny's to explore. It was quite the adventure playground
. There's still a commemorative stone in the doorway with WJ Sloan's name and the date the store was opened. Still don't know how he ended up all the way down there from Co. Down, though. Perhaps Wilhelmina's line may provide the answers
I know his brother
Thomas Knox Sloan (a witness at William & Mary Anne's wedding and they named one of their daughter
Margaret Knox Sloan) died in Boyle c. 1888 but I don't know if he was married or had kids. I also found a
Theodoria M Sloan who died in 1958 odd at the grand old age of 90, so she might slot in somewhere too. Would be helpful if they could all decide how their names were spelt.
Samuel McLean, Mary Anne's father (an architect) also seems to have had an impact on the town. In the Griffiths valuations from what I can glean he was renting property to the local police and building a house elsewhere. Would love to know how many he built/owned/rented over the years.
Am off now to see if I can find a connection to Wilhelmina Sloan...
