Story updated to cover Marion's marriage. Her husband's family lived in Tollcross House, Glasgow, for some years, before moving to Fullarton House in Old Monkland (Airdrie).
Another interesting post on the Kennedys, thank you. I'm pretty sure that William MacIlwraith was apprenticed to Angus Kennedy, and was a family friend. His mental health deteriorated and he ended up in Woodilee, where he died in 1909. The practice was sunk in the general collapse of work after the City of Glasgow Bank crash. Towards the end of his life, Thomas had been put out of the house by his wife and was living in a shared room with another old fellow as a lodger. His wife allowed him back home just before he died. I remember Marion, my great aunt, quite well. My brother and I were quite scared of her. She did in fact marry, one James Leslie Dunlop, an extremely wealthy, slightly disabled fellow, from a Lanarkshire family who owned a coalmine, who had a club foot and had a special bicycle made, so that connection is fascinating. They lived in Sandringham in Port Bannatyne, which raises further questions: did he finance that tenement and the Largs one, which I believe were both designed by Marion's father? They sailed a yacht named the Bashie, and the witness at their wedding were Charles Mylne and his wife Janetta, he the brother of Alfred the yacht designer and owner of Port Bannatyne boatyard. On her husband's death Marion received a liferent, administered by Maclay Murray & Spens, but she was already a client long before she met him, and they acted when she took a petition to court after the death of Gustav. I'm sure that there are further stories lurking beneath the surface here.
Story updated to cover Marion's marriage. Her husband's family lived in Tollcross House, Glasgow, for some years, before moving to Fullarton House in Old Monkland (Airdrie).
Another interesting post on the Kennedys, thank you. I'm pretty sure that William MacIlwraith was apprenticed to Angus Kennedy, and was a family friend. His mental health deteriorated and he ended up in Woodilee, where he died in 1909. The practice was sunk in the general collapse of work after the City of Glasgow Bank crash. Towards the end of his life, Thomas had been put out of the house by his wife and was living in a shared room with another old fellow as a lodger. His wife allowed him back home just before he died. I remember Marion, my great aunt, quite well. My brother and I were quite scared of her. She did in fact marry, one James Leslie Dunlop, an extremely wealthy, slightly disabled fellow, from a Lanarkshire family who owned a coalmine, who had a club foot and had a special bicycle made, so that connection is fascinating. They lived in Sandringham in Port Bannatyne, which raises further questions: did he finance that tenement and the Largs one, which I believe were both designed by Marion's father? They sailed a yacht named the Bashie, and the witness at their wedding were Charles Mylne and his wife Janetta, he the brother of Alfred the yacht designer and owner of Port Bannatyne boatyard. On her husband's death Marion received a liferent, administered by Maclay Murray & Spens, but she was already a client long before she met him, and they acted when she took a petition to court after the death of Gustav. I'm sure that there are further stories lurking beneath the surface here.
Dominic, I imagine that it’s ‘Woodilee’ Asylum, rather than ‘Woodville’ (nb. I was raised in Lenzie, and looked into the hospital/asylum).
Thanks: corrected.