Info from Uncle Bill Stanners, May 2000 in Galasheils
In 1942, Mary Clapperton and my Mom had a vacation in Stirling and stayed with my great granny Kennedy
After coming home from India, Dad spent time training officers in Dunbar in the area of Jungle warfare. (The war in the far East was still active.) He then went to London. He was demobbed in England in Oxfordshire. He came home to see me (Ian) when I was born ( January 10, 1946). Dad didn't get demobbed until June 1946. Mom got an allowance from the army which allowed her to have the flat in Haliburton ( 141 Halliburton) Uncle Bill went to visit Mom every day Mom made "Angels on Horseback" ( bacon wrapped around a prune)
Matthew Stanners died in 1957. {Aside - I can still remember my Dad feeling so bad when this happened. We were living at Sheridan Street in Brantford at the time and Bruce was just 1 year old}
Matthew had worked at George Lees but when he died he was working for Hunters as a woolen drawer in Galasheils. Matthew's father was a shoemaker but Bill doesn't know his first name.
Dad ( John L. Stanners) also worked at George Lees and Co, at the Gala Bank Mill
Tommy Jr. got drunk at Margo's wedding and that is where he met Charlotte at the Gala Palais
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chief of the Clan Lindsay is the 29th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, of Pitcorthie, Colinsburgh, Fife, the Premier Earl of Scotland. His dual titles carry the history of two prominent lines of Lindsay, "ane surname of renown" as a literary Lindsay, Sir David of the Mount, a 16th-century Lord Lyon King of arms, wrote. He was the author of the drama, The Three Estaits, a bold satire on the need for reformation, which has been performed at several Edinburgh Festivals.
The Lindsays came to Scotland from Lincolnshire with David 1 in the 12th century and settled on the lands of Crawford, Lanarkshire. In 1540 Sir David Lindsay acquired Glenesk in Angus through marriage to an heiress of the Earl of Angus,l an area in which the clan expanded and prospered.
The Crawford line produced some dramatic characters. The 4th Earl, who became known as "Tiger Earl" or "Beardie Earl", ruled over a vast community of vassals but allied himself with the Douglases in a rebellion against James II, and had to plead for mercy. Stranger still was "the Wicked Master", Alexander, heir to the 8th Earl, who was convicted of trying to kill his father and was disinherited. The title passed to his cousin, the Laird of Edzell, although it reverted to the original line when the 9th Earl died.
The Laird of Edzell's great-grandson was made Earl of Balcarres in 1651, which led eventually the union of the two great houses in 1808. The 6th Earl of Balcarres then also became the 23rd Earl of Crawford when the direct Lindsay line failed.
Considered a clannish people, the Lindsays also had a reputation for liveliness, being known as the "Lightsome Lindsays".
They were one of the few Lowland clans to set up their own Clan Association, which they did in 1897 under their elan chief, with headquarters in Edinburgh and a branch in Glasgow. To establish their 19th-century claim to the Earldom of Crawford the chief's son researched the family history and published the results in a book called The Lives of the Lindsays.
Recent chiefs have contributed greatly to preserving Britain's heritage. The 28th Chief, father of the present Earl, was a trustee of the British Museum and the National and the Tate Galleries, as well as being involved with the National Trust and the Pilgrim Trust. The 29th chief is chairman of Scotland's Historic Buildings Council.
The clan motto is Endure fort-- "Endure with strength". The badge is a swan rising out of a coronet.
TARTAN The Lindsay tartan is a variation of that of Stewart of Atholl, with the black checks being replaced by blue ones.
Source: Blackie, Lorna. "Clans and Tartans - The Fabric of Scotland", New York, 1987 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
More About John Lindsay Stanners: Died 2: August 30, 1981, Brantford, Ontario.1 Fact 1: 1939, Enlisted in King's Own Scottish Borderers and fought in Burma and India in WW2. Fact 2: 1949, Emigrated to Canada because of asthma, and the hope of finding a job in the wool.
More About John Lindsay Stanners and Jean Gow Watson Barbour: Marriage 1: February 11, 1945, Kinross, Scotland. Marriage 2: February 11, 1946, Galashiels, Scotland.1
Children of John Lindsay Stanners and Jean Gow Watson Barbour are:
Colour Sargeant, K.O.S.B. John Lindsay Stanners (b. December 31, 1919, d. August 30, 1981)
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