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By Roz, on August 9th, 2010% 
Inglis Memorial Hall
It has recently been brought to my attention that the Inglis Memorial Library in Edzell has been closed by the local council and replaced by a 2-hour weekly mobile library service. The Library, as well as 5000 books (for what point is a library without books!), was gifted to the village of Edzell (in Angus, Scotland) in 1898 by Sir Robert William Inglis in memory of his parents and uncle. The gift was supported by a trust fund, and the opening ceremony was a . . . → Read More: The Inglis Memorial Library: CLOSED
By Roz, on February 9th, 2010% Taking a break from the NLA website (on the advice of my optician) I began re-investigating the other Inglis family; namely the ancestors and siblings of Jessie Anne Inglis, who married Alexander Brand Inglis.
Wanting to be thorough I revisited the FIBIS website to add sources for the data I have collected so far. FIBIS (Families in British India) was my first port of call, as the Inglis family, both Jessie’s and Alexander’s in fact, seemed to be drawn to the Indian subcontinent during the 1800s.
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By John, on March 30th, 2008% As mentioned in the last post there was two circular letters published in Oor Ain Folk. The second is transcribed below. From pages 266 to 270.
The next was written a full decade after the foregoing, and the observant reader will see that in the interim death had been busy, and that our hitherto happy and united family was beginning to feel the common fate of all merely earthly associations and institutions.
1st January 1884, Warepa, Otago, N.Z.
My Dear Mamma, and all the Members of the Family, big and little,—
. . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Circular Letter from 1884
By John, on February 25th, 2008% In Oor Ain Folk James Inglis prints two examples of the type of circular letter that his family used to send:
I hope that the reader may make some allowances as he runs his eye through what was certainly never intended for publication of this sort; my only excuse for now reprinting these old circular letters it the belief that others may perhaps be fired to follow our example; and if the pleasure given to some loved ones be even measurably near to what our random letters gave, I will not have given the hint for naught.
At the . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Circular Letter from 1874
By Roz, on November 25th, 2007% A correspondent has recently asked whether Alexander Brand Inglis could possibly be the father of John Inglis, born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis, ploughman, in 1861. I found the following:
John Inglis was born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis on 4th July 1860 in the Parish of Dalbog, Edzell. This would make Alexander Brand Inglis 20 to 21: around the right sort of age. Knowing that Alexander would not have been a ploughman, as he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to a draper in Edinburgh, I looked into other branches of the family nearby and . . . → Read More: A tale of two Inglis
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