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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 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 John, on January 12th, 2008%  The following article contains an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his grandfather Rev. David Inglis.
To the left is a ‘photograph’ we obtained from the Angus Archives last year. It is one of a series of photographs of some of the Inglis family that were featured in the book commemorating the opening of The Inglis Memorial Hall on Friday 22nd July 1898. For more information see here. We read through this book when we visited in November . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Reverend David Inglis (1771-1837)
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
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