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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 John, on January 21st, 2008%  The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his brother Henry Inglis.
Henry was the last child of Robert Inglis and Helen Brand (left). Mrs Inglis retiring after a good 26 years in the baby making service.
From page 261 of Oor Ain Folk:
My youngest brother Henry is married and doing well in London; and so far the manse boys, ‘by the good hand of their father’s God upon them,’ have proved themselves fair . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Henry Inglis (1857-?)
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, 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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