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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 John, on January 14th, 2008% The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his eldest brother David Inglis.
From our researches we know that David was born in Invermark, Lochlee on 2nd September 1831 and died, of the inflammation of the lungs, on 26th August 1888. He had seven children, two girls, five boys and married his cousin Ann Brand on 22nd April 1868.
James, in his preamble to his outline of his siblings’ lives mentions on page 253:
[w]ith the miserably inadequate salary of a Free Church country minister of the time, it . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: David Inglis (1831-1888)
By Roz, on November 25th, 2006% One of the items we received last week was the book “Oor Ain Folk” by the Hon James Inglis. It’s subtitled “Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot Auld Times” and was published in 1894.
I’ve finished reading it and enjoyed it very much. It concentrates on James’s father, the Reverend Robert Inglis, and his part in the “Disruption” of the Scottish Church in 1843, as well as a collection of anecdotes about his family and other characters in and around Glenesk (or Lochlee). Most (non-family) anecdotes seem to revolve around whisky, the drinking of . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk
By John, on November 22nd, 2006% We’ve just returned from a wee trip to Scotland to catch up with family and see The Greatest Football Team in the World gain another famous European victory. While there we nipped up to Edzell and Forfar to check out the Inglis Memorial Hall and the Angus Archives. We also went to the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh to find out a bit more about the trials of David Lyon.
On the Saturday before we left for Scotland, we received three things in the ‘post’: an e-mail from another Inglis descendant that Roz has been in touch . . . → Read More: A Wealth of Information
By Roz, on October 31st, 2006% Task: To consolidate and confirm data regarding Alexander Brand Inglis
The weekend threw up loads up extra information on the Inglis family, which John dealt with. I chose therefore to take what we had learnt from secondary sources on the internet (especially rootsweb.com) and build up a better and more solid picture of Colin Inglis’ father Alexander Brand Inglis.
Firstly, looking at the rootsweb.com data from the other researcher I realised that we had his birth date and baptism date mixed up, so we rectified that. He was actually born on 26th January 1839. Also, according to the rootsweb.com . . . → Read More: Alexander Brand Inglis
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