Tag: Archibald McDonald Rowley (1871-1942)
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Thirty-eight and fifteen Robert St, Glasgow. My great-grandparents Archie and Jane Rowley lived here and raised twelve children from 19111 until their deaths in 19322 and 19423. Today it is a car park in a light industrial area, a candle workshop and a retail outlet4.[4] I do not see the carpark. I see nineteenth-century tenements…
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Sounds and Smells of Glasgow
Archibald Rowley1, was born in 1897 in the very small village of Forgandenny near Perth in Scotland. His father, the local policeman died a mere two and a half years after Archie’s birth2. Sometime after that, his mother moved her family to Perth, where she worked as a laundress3. The next place we find Archie…
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Annotated Map
I am constructing an annotated map for part of my Family History studies. The unit, Place, Image, and Object requires that I create a representation of a place of significance to myself or my family. All my ancestors are either Scots or Irish and the little I know about them all centres around Glasgow. That…
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A rare insight
My parents rarely ever spoke about the past. Once, I was showing my dad an enormous rectangular basket with a lid that had I bought to use as a blanket box. His eyes lit up when he saw it. “We had baskets just like that when I was a child,” he told me I held…