Update - at last!
For various reasons, it's taken a while for the dress to arrive here, but it arrived on Monday; I now have the dress my granny married in and my grandpa's ring together for the first time since 1928 probably.
I will photograph the together, then the ring will be sent off to Australia.
Included with the dress were some bits that my granny had kept:
- a postcard of the war memorial in Castle Douglas (I need to go and have a look at that to find a family connection if there is one)
- an empty Post Office Telegram envelope with granny's name/village on, and handwritten are the names of a couple of books on it, presumably in my granny's writing, it looks similar
- a document from my grandfather to a joiner in Carsphairn, which appears to show the sale of household items, all detailed down to the last penny, for the grand sum of £4.13.11. I can ony tink this was him selling his stuff before they moved away from Casphairn, dated 1930
- my grandfather's medical card from 1949, with his address showing as here in the village; this is close to the year they moved here, I think it was 1947.
-two National Registration Identity cards for my grandfather; these are hugely useful to me, as they detail the addresses of the places the family lived - grandpa was a farm labourer/gardener and seemed to move about quite a bit before settling here. The cards contain 5 addresses between 1943 and 1948. I should be able to find them on maps and possibly go and visit them/photograph them, they're all fairly nearby.
I want to contact the Carsphairn Heritage Centre and ask if they would like me to write up a short article about it all for their newsletter. My family - Hunter- has a file there, and they may like copies of some of the documents I have to add to the file so anyone else researching our family can share them.
That's it for now, thanks for reading and taking the time to comment
