Oor Ain Folk

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

The Full Story of that Waltzing Matilda Fact

I was trying to find out more information about Alexander Brand Inglis and his wife Jessie Ann. I found a Jessie A Inglis in the 1891 census as a widow, and then found an Alexander B Inglis who died a few years earlier, in 1886. It tied in so far but wasn’t enough evidence to prove that I was looking at the right ones. On the census Jessie A and most of her children were listed as being born in India (specifically Calcutta for the children) but daughter Ethel M was born in Edzell, Scotland. This was good news as . . . → Read More: The Full Story of that Waltzing Matilda Fact