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Hi Steve,

I was delighted to hear from you and to know that what I remember fits with your knowledge of the family.   Sometimes after all these years on wonders if some of the memories are all muddled up or that perhaps some have been imagined.   I would love to hear more.   The book you mentioned in one of your posts sounds intriguing.   I dont suppose it is generally available.    My husbanf and I have visited Sotland quite a lot and  stayed in the nineties with one relative, a cousin of my mother.    Another time we had to go up because of my husband's work and (as well as going to the Braemar gathering which was great)we visited Elgin, but not knowing what road or house to look for just wandered through to get a feel of the place.   It is great to know it is still there and may be able to go again sometime to have a look.

Look forward to hearing from  you.

WilsonJud

Hi Steve and Greenvalley
My grandfather Eric Anderson Wilson was the brother of John Jessiman Wilson.   As a very small child I remember, just, my mother took me to the Isle of Wight to see her Uncle John, my great uncle, and his wife Aunt Alice who I remember better.   I have a vague picture of Uncle John in my head.   I have two phtos of me on the beach at Ventnor I think.   There is a little boy on the beach with me.   Some years later I was told he, David, was drowned in the sea.   My cousin also remembers going to the Isle of White and he remembers meeting Aunt Alice a few times.

My mother was quite friendly with Uncle John's daughter Agnes and I went to see her sometimes so
I can still picture her face as it was in the fifties.  For a while she seemed to live in a mews flat int eh West End of London.  Her sister Molly is the one who died young I think.
She wrote a long letter to the family from India about her escape from the Japanses which is very interesting reading.   I still have a copy of the letter which was given to my mother.   I think she was married to Sam at the time, though later I think they split up.

  I was told by my mother that my grandfather lived with his Aunt in Elgin for sometime and that he used the name Anderson Wilson because it was her surname.
He wore a ring with a crest which my Mother wore afterwards, but I cannot think where that crest comes from.   Unfortunately he died in London when my mother was 15 and my aunt was 11.    I think he was 55.
   
I have some photos of him from 1913 with his wife my granny and my mother as a 3 year old.    In my granny's writing it says July 1913 Easrwood Broughty Ferry.   I have a good picture of him taken perhaps in India where he went for a spell.  I have not been able to attach it yet.

WilsonJud