Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis (which we’ve mentioned previously here and here) is now scanned and available to be read in its entirety online now. For some reason it can’t be viewed through Google Books but from the Open Library website despite it originally coming from Google. No matter, find it here. I’m going to update some of the older posts with links to the relevant pages. Note that it is the second edition they have online while we have the first edition. I don’t believe there are any real changes genealogy-wise, only one . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis now online
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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 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 I would suggest that he is slightly modest in his appraisal of himself as you might expect. A fuller biography of him can be found on various websites which I link to below. I’ll get around to writing my own short biography of him soon. From page 258 of Oor Ain Folk: As to myself little need be said. I have been repeatedly urged to tell . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: James Inglis (1845-1908) 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-?) |
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