Address by the Provost [William Donaldson] on the occasion of Kilsyth’s Jubilee.
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Our Civic Chiefs: Provost Donaldson
Daily Record and Mail. Saturday November 23 1929
My father
My father was, is, my hero; largely because of who he was, but also because his life read like an adventure story. Zlatko Predavec was born on the 4th of May 1923. He was the sole product of each of his parents’ second marriages and as such was the much-loved baby of the family looked […]
Uncle Vlado
Vlado was Josip Predavec’s oldest son from his first marriage – my father was the youngest son from his second marriage so there was a significant age difference between them. In my father’s memoires he mentions Vlado together with his other half-brother, Milan, as forming part of his earliest memory: Now come the first memories; […]
Predavec – Evan 1966-
Donaldson – William
William was the son of William Donaldson . He fought in the Great War as a lieutenant in the 7th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and carried the Regimental Colours home in May 1919. He was mentioned in Despatches 8 NOvember 1918.
Hendry / Donaldson family photo 1928
This photograph is from the wedding of DD Hendry to MR Donaldson on 29 Nov 1928. Back: Annie Knight Hendry (née Doig) – Mary Donaldson (née Rennie) – Alfred Cumming (Uncle Alf) – Elizabeth Cumming (née Donaldson, Aunt Bet) Back / middle right: Agnes Donaldson (née Brown, Aunt Nan) – William Donaldson (Uncle Willie) Middle: Evan Hendry […]
Doig – James 1827-1898
James Doig (Charles, Robert, Robert, John) was born on 3 May 1827 in Douglastown, Kinnettles, Angus, Scotland. He was christened on 6 May 1827 in Kinnettles, Angus, Scotland. He died on 13 Nov 1898 in 59 Constitution Street, St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland. James was likely the father of an illegitimate son John Doig by Agnes Myles […]
Notebook with family dates
Note book from Annie Hendry (Annie Knight Doig) with dates relating to family members – and added to later. Bob is Robert Douglas Hendry. Mother is Mary Flemming Evans. Evan Is Evan Hendry. Uncle Charlie is Charles William Doig. He was born on 27 Feb 1871 in St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland. He died in 1938 […]
Five Minutes with the Wilson Sisters
by Donald Lang Whether you are looking at photos, family trees, or other documents, every now and then you find it difficult to find a probable narrative that covers the reported facts. Somewhere there is, or was, a letter in which Dan Wilson informed Hector McKenzie that he, Hector, working as a tanner, did not […]