Items related to Scottish notes and queries Volume 7 (1894)
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...the account of his family given by the Parson of Rothiemay it is stated that his father, Robert Gordon of Straloch, married, in 1608, Katharine, daughter of Irvine of Lynturk, by whom he had 17 children; and that Sir John Gordon (who died 1600), married a daughter of Kinnaird of Kinnaird. It was the father of the latter--John Gordon, killed at the Battle of Pinkie, 1547--whose wife was Isabel, daughter of Lord Forbes. She survived till 1604. The name "Forbes" is possibly a slip of the pen or memory on the part of the Diarist. E. D. 815. One Pound Bank Notes (VII., 77).--The Bank of Scotland was the first bank projected in the year 1605. Notes payable to bearer for 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Pounds were issued, but One Pound Notes were not issued till 1704. Much interesting matter in regard to Banks and Bank Notes will be found in Logan's Scottish Banker, 1844, and also in Stevenson's Chronicles of Edinburgh, 1852. Edinburgh. T. G. Stevenson. 815. One Pound Bank Notes (VII., 77).--"St Giles" might consult Graham's The One Pound Note, in the Rise and Progress of Banking in Scotland, and its Adaptability to England. Kenmore. I. C. Oban Church Hell.--The bell of the old Parish Church, Oban, presently being demolished, is discovered to have a history. It bears the following inscription:--" Lutherian congregation: Hagers Toun, Washington County, Maryland, Glasgow, 1786." The bell is said to have belonged to a vessel wrecked on the western coast. J. F. S. Gordon. ltterature. The. Knox College Monthly Presbyterian Magazine. Toronto, September, 1893. Th1s serial con1es to us for the interest attaching to its first article, "Some Reminiscences of a Divinity Hall Sixty years ago." The said divinity hall is that of Aberdeen University...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123100049X
- ISBN 13 9781231000496
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
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