PerthshireCrieffStrathearn Local History

Athol Davaar Lamont  Much can be written about my great grand father  John Lamont’s children. He had   after all some twelve in total between two spouses . I am now   going to   look at one   whose   story and appendages are quite incredible . Athol Davaar Lamont   was the fourth child   to the marriage   with Isabell Nairn . His name   indeed   follows precedent   - Athol taken from that area of Perthshire controlled   by the powerful Murray Clan and   whose   Chieftain, the Duke of Athol, even to this   day , is the only person in these isles   to have   a private army ! Davaar is a small island off Kintyre in Argyll at the mouth of Campbeltown Loch . Born in December 1891   in 4c Washington Street Glasgow , Athol   was a   school boy in the   1901 Census and now living at 20 Campbell Street in the Maryhill District of Glasgow . It is   understandable   that Athol would in probability   end up at sea bearing in mind his background . His paternal grandfath

WORLD WAR ONE  OUR FAMILY STORY         German military casualties 1.8 million British military casualties 744 000 French military casualties 1.15 million   We are remembering the 100th anniversary of the   end of World War 1 .This was a tragedy   which hit not   just the British Nation   but also that of   Germany and France . I had the privilege in the   1990s of   working   both in France and in Germany amongst   some lovely kind people and cannot   forget this unique experience .My time   in France   was in the town  Dreux   not far   from the race track at Le Mans . Dreux   was a town of   some 50 000 people   many of whom were refugees from the Civil War in Algeria   and   were   known as the "pied noir " or black feet . In Germany   I was   based in the Black Forest or Schwarz Wald at a tourist   town called Freudenstatdt . In   both cases I managed   to absorb    much of the local customs   and way of life . This   was   fa