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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 19th, 2008% The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his brother William Burnet Inglis.
From pages 260 and 261 of Oor Ain Folk:
Willie, the next, lies in a lonely grave by the great Australian inland river. He had taken an honourable position on the London Stock Exchange, but his health breaking down, he came out to Australia. After entering the service of one of the leading banks there, he accepted the position of branch manager in the far back, pastoral, riverside town of Wilcannis [sic]. Here he was joined by . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: William Burnet Inglis (1851-1888)
By John, on January 18th, 2008% The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his brother Thomas Chalmers Inglis.
Thomas died about three months after James finished writing Oor Ain Folk at the young age of 46. The cause was Phlebitis Embolism.
As his father was a Free Church Minister and was active in The Disruption then he would have been named after Thomas Chalmers the leader of the 450 ministers who left the Church of Scotland General Assembly in 1843. Thomas Chalmers died five months before Thomas Chalmers Inglis was born thereby, perhaps, prompting . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Thomas Chalmers Inglis (1847-1893)
By John, on January 16th, 2008%  The following article contains an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his brother Lt. Col. Sir Robert William Inglis V.D. (to give him his full title).
Robert, it could be argued, was the most successful of the children of the Reverend Robert Inglis. That is, if you measure success in titles and money. He donated quite a lot and especially buildings. He had The Inglis Memorial Hall in Edzell built in 1898 to honour his . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Robert William Inglis (1843-1923)
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