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I am trying to find the address of a Bill and Ann Stutters of Dundee, Scotland. They are my wife's aunt and uncle and we have lost contact with them over the last few years. Also, my father in law would like to get their address too, he was a native of Biggar, Scotland. If you could assit us, we would really appreciate it. Bill works or worked at a local golf club possibly called Aberdeen?
Thank you again.

Bob Ellis
Bob_Ellis@bc.sympatico.ca

Born in the Hawkhill schooling at Saint Mary's Lochee and Saint John's, married Jean Watt from Beechwwod and emigrated to Canada wwith our two sons in 1965 we go back to Dundee quite frequently and it gets better every time. Planning on another visit in a couple of years as I still have brothers & sisters living in Lochee, Aberdeen and Kirkcaldy.

Jimmy McFarlane
macfarl@istar.ca

Anybody who knows them, or served in the Regiment during these dates, please contact me.

Bruce Hendry
bhendry@nbnet.nb.ca

I am the last Ferguson of their line, and would like to pass on ot my daughter some information about where her family came from.

Is there any group or society in Dundee I might contact that may be able to help?

Thank you for your help.

JRoger Ferguson
rogerf@area51.ca

I have been reading about the devolution, I normally look at Edinburgh Digital City Net....Wallace would be proud! From now on I will be looking in the Courier, after all my Mother gets it every day.

Adam Smith
ADEMS97@aol.com

My parents are both gone now, yet I still return to Dundee to visit with lifelong friends and relatives; my last visit was in 1995. One thing I noticed - no sign on Dens Brae anymore - Baxters still there and made into flats - I still recognized the Brae even without a sign.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR CAMPAIGN...THERE ARE MANY DUNDEE PEOPLE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND I AM SURE THAT ONCE THEY HEAR THEY WILL BE STRONG SUPPORTERS AS I AM...

Teresa Kelly
teresa@uniserve.com

I will always be proud of my Scottish heritage and my history from Dundee. My children will be sure to be reminded of their history!

Jennifer & Don MacDonald
jendon.macdonald@sympatico.ca

Pleasant memories takes me back in the 1950's.I was a Teenager then,on Sundays we use to pace "up and down" the street which was called "OVERGATE".We nicknamed the street as "Sunday's Monkies Parade" If you had a date with a "Lass".we met under "SAMUEL'S CLOCK"(I often wondered if the clock is still there!) I also remember the "Flea Market" at the "OVERGATE" I loved eating those steaming hot "PEAS" also "WELKS" I Loved Dancing at places like-"LOCHCARNO",PALLE DE DANCE,"EMPRESS"(HONKIE TONK)"MARAYET HALL"for excitment "PROGGIE".I remember the biggest "COP"in Dundee used to be posted outside,waiting on the "ROWDIES" the "BLACK MARIA"standing by.Not to forget!The "HILLTOWN'S" FISH and CHIPS. Also a "PUBLIC CONVENIENCE" at the bottom of the street.

"THOSE WERE THE DAYS".I still think "THE CITY OF DUNDEE"and the people are the most generous, kind hearted,and most helpful. Originally I came from "Malta" Lived in Dundee for 28 years,and "PROUD OF IT".I am retired and live in ST.Catharines.Ont.Canada.

FRANK.STEPHENS
stephens@vaxxine.com

I am Jennifer. In 1995, on only my second visit back to Dundee, I went searching for a special newspaper article, didn't find it, but found this one instead. Imagine my surprise -- I never knew this existed. My aunt suggested we try to find it whilst in town. I went to your office across from the Museum and gave them all the facts but they were not able to get results.

That's when I went searching Microfilm and scrapbooks. We were looking for a picture of children at the Eastern School, Broughty Ferry, taken the year the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited Dundee sometime between 1952-55. This was quite the occasion as I remember and they arrived via the Britannia. We as school children lined the streets and were all given flags to wave. Anyhow, a newspaper photographer came to the Eastern School and took a mass photo in the gymnasium.

In the Saturday paper, was a portion of that photo with five childrens faces circled. Imagine my Grandmother Lindsay's surprise when she recognized one as being me. I don't know the rest of the circumstances, but I remember she came home with a silver five shilling piece in a souvenir case that was from the Queen. Each of the five children had received one. That is my claim to fame with Dundee. I lived at 45 Strathmore Street, in Barnhill, my Grandparents were Joseph and Agnes Lindsay, both deceased. They had five children, Mary Marshall (deceased), Eleanor Gayler (Brighton), Nessie Bisset (Canada), Angus Lindsay (Canada) and Norma Milton (Menzieshill, Duneee). Norma has two boys David (Ann who works at the Halifax) and Lindsay (Sheena who works at the Royal Bank).

My first impression of coming back to Dundee was not exactly pleasant, we came by bus from Peebles, and the bus depot in 1995 was not in exactly your prettiest part of Dundee, but history wise worth seeing. However, within a day I soon realized how beautiful Dundee really is and how friendly the people are! Some of it I remembered from my childhood, some had changed. The Discovery Quay is wonderful -- Mum and I had a great time that day touring it. Desperate Dan had always been a favourite of mine! My father, Bill Bisset (deceased) spent some of his growing years in Monifieth and met my Mother in the foundries during the war.

Mum attributes her varicose veins to "turning 500 lb. bombs"! She also worked for Gordon Cleaners and took me to see where this business used to be. She sat in the window mending nylon hose! Dad was an avid golfer at both Monifieth and Broughty Ferry. He lived in what is known as the "Lion House". My grandmother, Arabella Black, was a well-known and much sought after midwife in Forfar, and one of the Black boys was in the brass band and one on the football team.

I remember my days at the Eastern School, catching the double decker bus, rolling easter eggs at Rerus Park (so happy to see the arch still standing), playing on the beautiful beaches of B.F., swimming in the Tay and at the Pools, fishing off the wharf in B.F. etc. The improvement to B.F. harbour is so lovely - we sat and watched the Britannia make its last voyage down the silvery Tay at the front of the castle, eating treats from the bakery. I hope to have the courage to make another trip with my own family this time. They need to smell, feel, and taste Dundee. Once a Scot, always a Scot ... how blessed my life is because of my Scottish ancestry!

Bill & Jennifer Agar
billjen@mail.netshop.net

I managed to get back to Dundee last Christmas (1995). Lot's of snow! A wee woman from Dundee (Rene Rourke) used to organize a "Dundee Picnic" in Cambridge, Ontario every year. I think she's gotten too old to do it.

Maybe with the help of DC Thomson we could get it started again. There's an awful lot o' Dundee folk oot here. I am happy to see DCT supporting Dundee this way. You've always been a huge part o' Dundee culture. Jings, I remember my first shin pads playing at the Cardie were the Dandy and the Beano.

http://www.gbd.com/personal/iwilliams/homepage/intro.htm

Ian Williams
ian_williams@datacard.com

After WWII my father became a bobby in London and then emigrated to Canada in 1954. He retired from the Canadian Army and is presently living in Ottawa. He goes back often to see family who still live scattered along the coast from Dundee to Carnoustie. When I was little, one of my greatest joys was to go across the Tay Bridge on the train knowing that I would soon be at my grannie's house with a morning roll roll with jam on my plate.

If anyone would like to get in touch with him, his on line address is asturock@igs.net. Because he is recovering from an operation right now and is more or less housebound, he'd appreciate any E-mails from those who knew him in the Ferry or from QVC.

McRobbie
McRobbie@aol.com

I would love to hear from any relatives or fellow geneaologists who may be able to help me with my family research. I'm sure there must be some record of the business my Great-Grandfather owned and I would love to here about it. Some day I hope to visit Dundee and experience it's beauty myself.

Denise Crawford(Walker)
dmc@mail.accent.net

During my youth I was a member of the 6 th Lochee Company of the Boy's Brigade, there with my brothers Tom, Ray and Graham attended Friday night parades and the Sunday morning Bible Class, our camping holidays were spent in Pilochry. These were the days!, and lots of pleasant memories stem from our association with that group, even until today. Yes! Kidds Ballroom, the Palias de Dance, and the J.M. I can still do "The Blue Tango" and "The American Patrol".

My mother was a weaver in Cox's Jute Mill, and still resides in Toronto, and returns each year to visit Dundee. I am now retired and live in the Caledon Hills which is north of Toronto. My sister Mariyn and brothers Ray, Graham and my mother all live in the Toronto vicinity. My brother Tom died on the ninth of January 1997 after a lengthy bout with cancer.

I pride myself with my ties to Dundee and have a collection of scenes of the area by Dr James McIntosh Patrick together with other Dundee artists and photographers.

The Courier's Web Site is an excellent page and should be supported, keep up the good work.

Jim Robertson
donald1@mail.auracom.com

My family is from Dundee and I hold many fond memories of the city myself. In fact my family will be returning to the city on holiday this fall and I hope to get across on business later this year myself.

My e-mail is kdspress@warplink.com and my URL is http://www.warplink.com/~kdspress/index.htm

My company is called KidsPress, ink and is based in the beautiful (if somewhat frozen) Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. More specifically, in St. Catharines, ON. It is a newspaper produced by-kids, for-kids. I am Publisher, Editor and Grown-up in Charge. So although I was born in Canada, it would appear as though I have my roots in Dundee through journalism, as much as through lineage. I'd love to have my home page linked to yours.

Jennifer McKenzie-Pellegrini
kdspress@WarpLink.com

I remember the flea markets at the Overgate where the area has now been yuppified. I also remember the ugly tenements which have now mostly disappeared with no regrets. I travelled on the Lochee Tramway or the No. 3 bus via Anlaby Road.

We landed initially in Nova Scotia but evenually landed up in Montreal in Quebec. This Province has its equivalent of the SNP except carries much more weight. I haven't been back to Dundee since 1978 but hope to soon.

There is a Dundee close to Montreal but the population is about 30. There is also one on Cape Breton Island near the Bras d'or Lakes.

Colin Waters
waters@alcor.concordia.ca

It is really great being able to access the Dundee papers on the internet and keep up with what's going on. Dundee has quite a history. I can still smell the Jute Mills and remember the Keillor's bakery along the road from my grandmother's house.

There is one night that I remember as a child that was one of the eeriest nights of my life. We had gone to the swimming pools at the docks, there was a small walk bridge over the docks which opened in the middle and two men were at the middle holding it so that we could walk over it. The waves were lapping the top of the docks and coming over the main wall. When we got inside the pool even that water was lapping the side of the pool. It was not until we got home that night that we found out that the Mona Lifeboat had gone down. It was a sad time for the area.

I plan to do some research for in and around Dundee as I am presently researching my genealogy and finding it fascinating. Please continue to keep us auld Dundonians informed.

Helen Webb
hwebb@maildrop.srv.ualberta.ca

I worked for several companies in Dundee including James Scott, Barrie and Lorimer, Pro-act Electric and A & R Electric. Although I knew my future wife (Anne Cumming) while attending Kirkton High, romance did not blossom until we met again several years later. We now have two children Kate (7) and Scott (6).

I now work for a consulting engineering company in the field service department, we specialize in control systems for the oil and gas facilities all over the world. I spent some time in Romania this year, and hope to go back next year.

We try to get back to Dundee every three years or so, although the last time my wife and children went back I was unable to go due to work commitments, so if I go back with the family next year it will be my first visit in 6 years.

When ever I get a chance to check out what is happening in Dundee, I always go to the D.C. Thompson page and have a look through the 'Tully' and the 'Courier'.

If you went to Kirkton High during the same time as myself or Anne or if you worked for any of the above listed companies I would be happy to hear from you.

Dundee will always have a place in my heart.

Derek Larg
dglarg@kenonic.com

I have just started to look through your new (I think it's new) site and have had my interest rekindled in Dundee again. You asked "Do you or your family come from Dundee? We'd love to hear your story" Well here it is as far as I know.

My story starts in a small village on the west coast of Scotland called Fairlie. This is where I grew up with my sister Gretta and my brother John. My Mothers name was Mary and she was from N.Ireland, she had met my Father in Edinburgh where she was taking her nursing training. (I am getting to the Dundee bit) During the time I was growing up there was always a sense of "something is funny here" when we as kids would try to ask our Dad about his relations.

Our Dad had an english accent so we thought that he was English. Sometime during my early years I can remember My Dad going to London to his Mothers funeral. My Dad had been known to us and everyone else as Patrick George Quinn and we never gave it a lot of thought. When it came time for our Dad to apply for his pension my sister who had taken on the task of setting this up for him found that there was no-one registered by the name of Patrick George Quinn so the search started for the correct name etc.

I don't know how she found out what his correct name was but it was found to be ""George Bruce WEBSTER"" and that he had been born in Dundee at 7 Kinloch Street in the year 18??. We had thought that with his english accent and the fact that he had gone to London to his Mothers funeral he would have been english. I sent off to Edinburgh and requested a copy of his birth certificate and as you will be aware, a Scottish birth certificate gives a lot of other info. This is where I got quite, in fact very interested in The ""WEBSTER branch of the family"" I found out that My Dads fathers name was Edward Stewart WEBSTER, and my Dads mother was Bridget McGARTY and that they had been married in Leith in 1889.

I have been living in Canada for the last 30 years and decided that it was about time that I paid another visit to Scotland so I set out in May of 1993 for a three week visit to Home. While I was there I paid a couple of visits to Dundee and eventually found KINLOCH STREET, I was quite excited to walk along the sidewalk and think that in 1893 my Grandmother had pushed my Father up and down these same hills in his wee pram, the same hills that I was walking. Then I found out that his fathers father (his name was Alexander WEBSTER) was a Riding master in the ""Royal Horse Artillery"" and had died in India in 1864. This is as far as I could go as far as tracing the elusive WEBSTERs any where in the world. I have been in contact with WEBSTERs in Sydney Australia. (There is a connection there) Canada, USA. But not a hint of any relations in Dundee. I have also been looking for My Grandmother's (McGarty) connection in Dundee but I don't think that there are any around anywhere. I could possibly have been looking in all the wrong places. There is a reason that my Dad decided to be known as Quinn rather than WEBSTER. My Mother was a Catholic and my Father was not.

(This was obvious when we as kids went to midnight mass and dragged him along). Then came the time that my Mother took him to Ireland to meet the family. This was a problem. It seemed that in those days Catholics definitely didn't marry Protestants. So (I love this bit) He decided that he should have an Irish Catholic sounding name and he chose ""Quinn"" I often wonder how many of them he fooled. I think that they would be watching someone with an english accent very closely. I don't think that he fooled any of them.

In finishing I would just love to hear from any Dundee WEBSTERS and McGARTYS and will definitely be paying the town of my ancestors another visit very shortly. Now I will get back to ""From Dundee and proud of it""

Jim Quinn
jquinn@deepcove.com

I continually monitor the results of the two Dundee football teams from over here as I do feel a connection through them. Even though I only lived there a short while and do not have any real memories through my parents and the rest of my family I still proudly call Dundee my home. I am Scottish first and foremost and I am extremely proud to say this.

Just thought I'd drop a line and let you know.

By the way should you know one of my brothers please extend a warm hello. His name is Steve Reilly of Independent Access Scaffold which is located at 40 North Ellen Street.

Eric Paton
epaton@netcom.ca

But I really want to tell you about my father. He is a Dundonian, who emigrated at 55 to Canada. He browses Scot Web daily. He uses the \ internet for 2-3 hours a day....and he is 82! He reads computer books and internet user books and he truly is up-to-date. He just upgraded the ram on his computer....because it was too slow. He loves Scotweb.....and likes to go into the Courier and read info about Dundee. During the summer he plays golf three times a week. When he lived in Dundee, he was a regular golfer at the Caird Park Golf Club. Anyway, I told him that he should be teaching seniors how to browse the "web"!

I love your "web" page........thanks!

Linda Brown Robertson
103201.3140@compuserve.com

I visited Dundee last year and was pleased to see some of the improvements. Sadly Kinnaird St is not the same. Thats progress I guess. I had both my sons with me age 17 and 20 and we tried to see as much as possible driving up the Law, through the areas I had lived and of course having a "bridie" for lunch. We visited the Discovery exhibit and were very impressed. I was also very fortunate to be shown around Verdant Works by a gentleman who was about to leave the office and when I explained my situation he very kindly showed me around what was in place at the time. I read the write up in this WEB site and I must say I was extremely impressed with what I saw that day and can believe that it will become an excellent addition to Dundee's Heritage Exhibits It brought back many memories and a few tears to see the equipment and smell the Jute.

I haven't examined everything on this site yet but I will and I hope to be able to keep up on some of the things going on in my home town. There are a number of other ex Dundonians in Kincardine so it's not completely without a bit of home. Keep up the good work and many thanks for the enjoyment of this WEB site and the thoughts of Dundee that come from reading it.

Ron Duncan
duncanr@primeline.net