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Scotland / Re: was there any support for blind people?
« on: Sunday 05 August 12 10:13 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the link. Yes, he was in the Blind School at Craigmillar. He was taken in in 1877 with his blind brother when he was 3 1/2. I have contacted the Royal blind school and they told me that they have a note in the admissions book that he was taken in under the normal age of entry (5) as the Board in Peebles agreed to pay towards nurses attendance.

I understand how the Blind Society helped with training etc but I wondered what, if any, connections they would have had to make my Grandfather move to Alloa and then to Dumbartonshire. It's not as if these moves are just to the next parish.




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Scotland / was there any support for blind people?
« on: Saturday 04 August 12 12:51 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather was blind from birth. After leaving the Blind School, he lived with his mother in Peebles. The next thing I find is that at age 29 he is marries in Alloa (to a blind woman). When she dies, he moves to Dumbartonshire, aged 44 and marries another blind woman.

His first wife was over 40 when he married. His second wife was 25 when he married her.

Does anyone know of any national organisation that helped blind people. It seems odd that he moved about so much. His occupation was piano tuner.

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Midlothian / Re: Burial Index's for Newbattle and Newton
« on: Tuesday 01 May 12 18:07 BST (UK)  »
I have details on death certs for John Penman Wilson (d1858), Christina Muir Wilson, d1859 and Robert Wilson d 1860. All say buried in Newbattle churchyard. Are there any details on gravestones for Wilson family?

Douglas

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