Military Chat

Thanks AG and Chris for the idea regarding Alex (Stationmaster) will. I have enjoyed reading and gleaning bits of info off it. If any of you are interested, I attach all 3 pages of his will here. Doesn't look like John's sister Annie ever got married if she was still living with her father when he died.

https://www.genesreunited.co.za/keepsafe/asset/details/68220808

https://www.genesreunited.co.za/keepsafe/asset/details/68220938

https://www.genesreunited.co.za/keepsafe/asset/details/68220967

Anyone any idea how I can view the documents...?
When I click on link I am being asked to Register with Genes...???

(I'm not familiar with it, but had below yesterday, where we couldn't see it, below advice was given, seemed to solve it!)

Chris :)

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1370924

Nyx Report 8 Mar 2018 19:32

Tanja, when you look at the picture in your keepsafe, left click on it and in the search bar you should see something like this

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/1016486

post that here Make your you have clicked on the 'privacy' menu ( look for the 'padlock' icon) and make it "shared with everyone"

All the links Janet has posted re the Will open first time for me - maybe she's edited them.

No mention of the house in the Will - must have been rented, not owned.

Interesting quote from Genesis on page 3 - "See that ye fall not out by the way."
I can imagine Dad wagging his finger at the kids - Annie, Alexander, and John.

(loads of newspaper items relating to Charles Shirra Dougall, Dollar Academy)

Chris :)

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Dougall_Charles.html

(probably more on google search)


1901 (Find My Past)
Charles Shirra Dougall Head Married Male 32 1869 Kippen, Stirlingshire, Scotland Head Master Of Secondary School
Jeanie Dougall Wife Married Female 32 1869 Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland -
Elizabeth Eglinton Dougall Daughter Single Female 5 1896 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland -
Charles Robert Dougall Son Single Male 3 1898 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland -
Alexander Cameron MacPherson Boarder Single Male 16 1885 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland Scholar
Crozier Fullerton Tofts Boarder Single Male 16 1885 England Scholar
Charles Nelson Titchfield Boarder Single Male 16 1885 England Scholar
John Christie Hamilton Boarder Single Male 16 1885 Lanarkshire, Scotland Scholar
James Goerge Weir Boarder Single Male 13 1888 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland Scholar
William Ure Boarder Single Male 13 1888 Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland Scholar
Agnes Herbert Servant Single Female 24 1877 Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland Cook
Annie Brown Servant Single Female 22 1879 Wigtownshire, Scotland Housemaid
Ewart High School House, Penninghame, Wigtownshire,

I have been ensuring that all my keepsakes have been uploaded and unlocked for public viewing since Kath explained it to me, so nobody should have any problem with viewing my uploads. If any of you want me to email attachments privately to you, please inbox me your email address and I will gladly do so.

I missed that quote from Genesis, Argyllgran. Very interesting, I wonder in what context he added it?

Janet....

Download this Book ...(GoogleBooks) its Free....

https://archive.org/details/transvaalinwara00edwagoog





Scroll to page 376 0f 391 and you will be able to see John MacDonald in Full London Scottish Regalia (7th Middlesex VB Regt) Back row about 3 from the end.

Just in case link does not work book is

The Transvaal in war and peace

by Edwards, Neville

Oh my soul Erin, that is so exciting, thank you. I had a look at the picture from that book, and John Macdonald has a distinct resemblance to his son, my grandfather Alex. So he must be the right person. Chris sent me detail of another John Macdonald who was a possible match, do you think they may be the same person? Details below:-

Anglo-Boer War records 1899-1902 Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) J
Last name MacDonald
Service number 681
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment Southern Rhodesian Volunteers
Other regiments/units Unit: served with City Of London Imperial Volunteers, Rank: Lance-Sergeant, Number: 681
Rolls WO100/231 page 252 WO100/267 page 43
Notes QSA Clasps: J,DH,CC,OFS,R

The Biography of of Charles Shirra Dougall, brother in law of John Macdonald is fascinating. I thought that by Rector of Dollar Academy it meant he was the pastor there, but in fact he was the headmaster from 1902-1923. That makes sense then why John Macdonald sent his son, my grandpa Alex to Dollar Academy boarding school from around 1908 to 1922.

Thanks Chris for sending this to me.

Have been reading through tis thread and wondered if you had seen this. All Tomnahurich Cemetery.


NAME DOD DOB SPOUSE FATHER MOTHER CEMY NO

McDonald John 1919 * * McDonald Alexander Munro Annie TNH 22


McDonald Annie 1868 * * McDonald Alexander Munro Annie TNH 22


McDonald Alexander 1920 * Munro Annie * * TNH 22


Munro Annie 1910 McDonald Alexander

Thanks Alviegal, very helpful! I knew the burial place for Alexander Macdonald Stationmaster(1920), but none of the other burial details. I am not sure who this Annie McDonald is though. Alexander & Annie did have a daughter Anne (1841) who was present at her father's death in 1920, so it can't be her: https://www.genesreunited.co.za/keepsafe/asset/details/68005877 . Maybe a child that died at birth, because the date fits around when John Macdonald (1869) and his brother Alex (1866) were born.