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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 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)
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 11th, 2008% I’m going to be producing some extracts of James Inglis‘ book “Oor Ain Folk” over the next week or so. Specifically passages relating to his (and Roz’s) family. We picked up a copy of this book over a year ago from a bookshop in Sydney (we bought it online), Inglis’ home town by that time.
Its full title is long as these old books are wont to do: “Oor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot Auld Times”. He published under the name of James Inglis but he was known as . . . → Read More: Excerpts from “Oor Ain Folk”
By Roz, on November 25th, 2007% William was one of James Inglis‘ younger brothers, I have written about him before I think. He was tempted to Australia by James and took a position in a bank in Wilcannia (a town in New South Wales about 450 miles North West of Sydney) taking with him his wife and four young children Helen, Mary, Robert and William.
There is a transcription of a vivid account (given by Helen, using the name Daisy because her second name was Margaret) of life in Wilcannia and the death of their father, on rootsweb . . . → Read More: William Burnet Inglis 1851 – 1888
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