On this day in 1887 Duncan Campbell died. Duncan is your 3X great uncle being the brother of your 2x great grandmother Lily Campbell. Dunca was raised in Tarbet on the banks of Loch Lomond in Dunbartonshire. He moved a little bit south of there to the city of Glasgow where he worked for the British Postal Service. From being a letter carrier he became a porter at the lovely big old post office building which I saw in Glasgow (no longer a post office unfortunately). As a porter he had his 15 minutes of fame when he caught a thief. The thief, Mary McDonald, was sent to prison for 30 days for being a "rogue and a vagabond".
Duncan was married to Catherine Kilgour and they had six children. Duncan died in Oakfield - a house in Tarbet and he was buried in nearby Ballyhennan Burial Ground with his parents and others - this was the grave I found last fall. He died from a cerebral haemorrhage. He was 61 years old.
And lastly on this day, Flora Fisken died in 1913. Flora is your great great grandmother. She was born in Perthshire, Scotland but as a young girl went to live with her uncle in Stamfordham, Northumberland, England. Her uncle was William Fisken, the chappie famous for his steam plough. He was also a presbyterian minister. Flora married William Glover who was the minister of the congregational church in nearby Horsley. They lived in the manse of the church and had two sons. When her husband died in 1902 she was able to stay on a little while but only until a new minister arrived and then she moved into Newcastle (to 88 Ethel Street - the house which was still in the family when I was a child).
Flora died in 88 Ethel Street of embolism in vessels of both legs and senile gangrene in both legs. Her exact age seems to be up for debate - but she was in the first half of her 70's. She was buried with her husband in the graveyard in Ovingham - a village which is down a very steep hill from Horsley.
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| Found the Glover grave in Ovingham in 2012 |
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