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Shillinglaw
Richard Shillinglaw was born 10 March 1819 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were Andrew Shillinglaw and Janet Bell. He emigrated with his father and stepmother in 1832 and settled in Canada. His father died in 1832 and Richard returned alone to Scotland. He married Catherine Smith in 1840 in Edinburgh. She died in 1841. He married Margaret Matson in 1843 and they had one known child, Agnes. By 1850, Richard was a widower living in Chicago. He married Sidney Earle in 1854 and they had two children, Andrew and Fredericka. Richard had died by 1860. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee.
Chicago Genealogist
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Old Innerleithen, Walkerburn and Traquair
Reaching a peak of seven mills in the 1870s, Innerleithen and Walkerburn owe their development, if not their existence, to the worldwide demand for the textiles they produced. In just forty years during the Victorian era, the population of Innerleithen alone grew five-fold and, with the coming of the railway, tourism for the local spa - named after Scott's 'St Ronan's Well' - also contributed to local prosperity. But it couldn't last. The mills have declined and the nineteenth-century fashion for health tourism has long passed. However, this book remembers the glory days, a time when the local choral society staged wonderfully costumed performances of Gilbert & Sullivan and when the Cleikum gathering could command the attention of the whole town and surrounding area. Other sights recalled include the local railway stations, the early golf course (sabotaged by a local farmer), the magnificent mansion house, The Glen, which burnt down in dramatic circumstances in 1905, and the golden jubilee of Walkerburn Co-op in 1913.
NGS Newsletter
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Empathy and the Novel
Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debat...
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831
Contains it's Proceedings.
Children of the Sea
One hundred and eighty-nine men drowned in a single afternoon in Scotland's worst fishing disaster. It is a forgotten part of the nation's past, yet it happened just a hundred and twenty years ago. It decimated the coastal community of Eyemouth where the effects of Black Friday are felt to this day. Children of the Sea is the remarkable story of a village on the margins of the sea and at the edge of the country. It is a tale of survival through the wars of independence and the witch-hunts of the seventeenth century; of danger and high jinks when Eyemouth was the centre of a massive smuggling ring; and above all of the hope and tragedy of fishing and of battles with the minister. It is a story of a people who fought to survive, and whose voice can now be heard, from tales handed down through the generations.
