Tag: Archibald McDonald Rowley (1897-1981)
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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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Crisis of Faith
A fanciful account She genuflected, crossed herself, then followed the line to the priest. In a trance, her body seemed a second or two behind her, unattached and out of reach. Her mind, on the other hand was razor sharp. “Hell, hell,” she thought, “what would a bloody priest ken aboot hell? The hardest thing…
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Finished Map
This was an assignment as part of the Diploma of Family History I am studying at the University of Tasmania. I chose my paternal great-grandparents, Archie and Jane Rowley, as the subjects for this map. Glasgow is the place of my childhood, and so I chose to draw with children’s crayons. Archie worked in the…
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Strangers in the Night
Archie ROWLEY (1897 – 1981) and Harry HARVEY (1893 – 1979) lived their lives twelve thousand miles apart, yet, before cars and planes were commonplace, their paths so very nearly crossed. Archie and Harry had the unfortunate luck to be born just in time to participate in a conflict we now call World War I. To them,…