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David Stevenson
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Robert Adam
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Robert Adam, (1728-1792) was a famous Scottish architect. Born in Fife, the son of William Adam, architect, his connection to the Falkirk area is that he designed fireplaces for Carron Co.
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James Waddell
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Clerk to Eastern No 2 District Council, c 1930-1975 and Eastern No 3 District Council, 1960-1975. Continued in employment with Falkirk District Council after local government re-organisation in 1975 and continued to be based at Brightons Area Office until c. 1977
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Filshie, W R & Sons, Quarrymasters
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John Dobbie
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University of East Stirlingshire Campaign Trustees
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The University of East Stirlingshire Campaign was set up to lobby for the establishment of a new university in the Falkirk area during the expansion of higher education in the 1960s, following the Robbins Report. In 1972 the Campaign Committee agreed to contribute funds to the John C Eaton Memorial fund of Strathclyde University
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Torwood School
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Torwood School opened on 25 Sept 1875. It was closed as a primary school and re-opened in 1964/65 as a Junior Occupation Centre and in 1975 became a school for children with complex learning needs. In 1999 it became a primary only provision. In 2007 the pupils were moved to specialist bases within new integrated primary schools in the Falkirk area.
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General Iron Fitters' Association
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The General Iron Fitters Association was instituted in Glasgow in 1892 and registered under the Trade Union Acts in 1896. Despite originating in Glasgow, the bulk of the membership was in the Falkirk area and from 1921 the registered office was at 30 Newmarket St, Falkirk and then from 1954 the office moved to 11 Callendar Riggs, Falkirk.
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Hamilton
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The Dukes of Hamilton (later Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon) owned Kinneil Estates and various collieries and other properties in the Polmont and Falkirk area. The family has various branches and had estates in various parts of Scotland, but mainly in Lanarkshire. The family and estate papers are held at Lennoxlove (contact the National Register of Archives, Scotland, for details and access), at Hamilton Public Library, and at the National Archives of Scotland.
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Grangemouth District School Board
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Grangemouth District School Board covered the Grangemouth area of Polmont Parish until Grangemouth Parish (civil parish) was disjoined from Polmont in 1900. School Boards were set up by the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 which gave them a statutory duty to provide education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13 (increased to age 14 in 1901). The boards had an elected membership made up of owners and occupiers of property of the value of £4 or over. They were responsible for the building and maintenance of schools, staffing and attendance of pupils. They were overseen by the Scottish Board of Education. School boards were abolished under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918 and replaced with school management committees. From 1873 to 1919 schools were managed by Parish School Boards . From 1919 to 1930 these were replaced by School Management Committees and overseen by the Education Authority for the area. In 1930 County Councils were required to set up Education Committees which replaced the Education Authorities.
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Captain Sir John Kincaid
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John Kincaid, later Captain Sir John Kincaid, was born on 24 July 1787 at the small farm of Dalbeath, Bothkennar. He was baptised in the Relief Church of Falkirk, although his baptism was recorded in the Bothkennar Parish Register. His parents were John Kincaid and Margaret Gaff who were married at Polmont on 20 November 1784. He had an older and a younger brother who had also been born in Dalbeath. The family moved to Carronflats, now Grangemouth, but then Polmont Parish sometime between 1789 and 1791 as the younger brother and sister in the family were born in Polmont. His father died on 11 Feb 1794 and was buried in the family grave at Falkirk Churchyard.
He served as ensign in the North York Militia from 1807-08. The Dundas family had strong connections with this regiment which may have been the reason for his joining. He joined the 2nd Battalion the 95th Regiment at Hythe Barracks in the spring of 1809. Part of the British Army’s Light Brigade, the 95th was a special regiment which had been formed in 1800. They wore a distinctive green jacket and shako and carried Baker rifles. These were very accurate rifles but required a great deal of training and expertise to use effectively. The 95th usually operated separately from the rest of the regiments and were used as sharp shooters, skirmishers and information gatherers. They were encouraged to use their own initiative. Bernard Cornwell’s well known Sharpe novels were based on their exploits. Kincaid recounts his adventures in his memoirs of the Napoleonic War “Adventures with the Rifle Brigade” published in 1830 and later “Random Shots of a Rifleman “ Both books were enormously successful and are still in print. They are distinguished by his humility and regard for suffering. They are also very entertaining. Kincaid’s career in the 95th began with the South Beveland landing of the Walcheran Expedition, (Netherlands) possibly the most disastrous Expedition involving the British in the Napoleonic wars. The whole affair was badly planned and although just 106 men were killed in combat, over 4000 died of Walcheran fever (malaria) and many more, like Kincaid, became ill. He returned home to Scotland to recuperate. In 1810 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion 95th Regiment at Hythe and was shipped to Portugal. His time in the Peninsular War was extremely eventful. He served as Lieutenant and was adjutant for much of his time in the Napoleonic war. He recounts in his memoirs “Neither will I mention any regiment but my own, if I can possibly avoid it, for there is none other that I like so much, and none else so much deserves it; for we were the light regiment of the Light Division, and fired the first and last shot in almost every battle, siege and skirmish in which the army was engaged during the war.” He was involved in battles and sieges including Sabugal, Fuentes D’Onor, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Nivelle and Bayonne. He was also involved in numerous minor actions. He led a storming party at Cuidad Rodrigo and was awarded the Peninsular Medal with nine clasps. He then spent the year before Napoleon’s escape from Elba, and the war’s resumption, in Scotland. He then rejoined his battalion in Brussels. His battalion (1st) was part of the 8th Brigade commanded by General Sir James Kempt, which was part of the 5th Division of the British Army under General Sir Thomas Picton. He then saw action at Quatre Bras and then shortly afterwards at Waterloo. His company were left of centre of the line at La Haye Sainte which was the part of the line that suffered the most sustained attack. There he was in the very thick of the action and had his horse killed under him. His famous quote was “I had never yet heard of a battle in which everybody was killed, but this seemed likely to be an exception, as all were going by turns.” He loyally maintained that Wellington had the battle won before Blucher’s arrival with the Prussian forces. In honour of the regiment’s bravery at Waterloo the 95th were renamed the Rifle Brigade in 1816. He remained in the Rifle Brigade until he retired from military service in 1831. Although the Rifle Brigade saw no more active service until 1846 his regiment was in Glasgow from 1819 to 1820 to maintain public order during the Scottish Insurrection. The regiment were then based in Ireland for 4 1/2 years from 1820 to 1825 again to quell popular unrest. He was on leave of absence, from his regiment there when he wrote a letter on 22nd Feb 1824 to the the young William Forbes of Callendar apologising after he was caught shooting snipe on the Callendar lands. He was visiting his brother Thomas Kincaid and his wife Isabella Balloch at Forganhall at the time. They were renting the ground floor from Jean Glen, widow of William Glen. Jean Glen was occupant of the upper floor of the house. In 1825 he served in Nova Scotia where he was particularly involved in literary pursuits and contributed to "The Nova Scotian" In 1826 he reached the rank of Captain. He retired from the army in 1831 after 22 years service. The remainder of his time was spent in public service. He became an Exon of the Yeoman of the Guard in 1844. After he became a senior Exon he was, as was customary at the time, knighted on 30 June 1852 . In 1847 he was appointed Government Inspector of Prisons for Scotland and in 1850 he took the joint role of Inspector of Prisons and Factories for Scotland and Northern England. Some of his findings in official reports regarding education and factory conditions were quoted in Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”. He had over the years returned to Polmont and the Falkirk area, although his military service and public duties kept him away for much of the time. He obviously still retained a connection with the area as James Love recounts that Sir John Kincaid, London, was one of the main subscribers to the purchase of Falkirk’s Wellington Monument in 1853 He died at Hastings in 1862 shortly after retiring from public office due to ill health. Recent research has shown that he married not long before his death to Louisa. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery (where his grave gives the wrong year of birth). West Sussex Archives hold 30 of his letters to the Duke of Richmond. There are also some of his letters and statements held as part of Captain William Siborne’s Waterloo Correspondence at the British Library (Add Ms 34707-8). Siborne, at the behest of Sir Rowland Hill, Commander in Chief of the British Army, constructed a huge model of the battle completed in 1838. This was based on meticulous research and the above series of correspondence with all surviving allied officers who had served at Waterloo. He later wrote a famous history of the war in France and Belgium. However, his quest for accuracy led to the great displeasure of the Duke of Wellington as he suggested that the battle could not have been won without the assistance of the Prussians. |
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George Deas Page
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George Deas Page (1856-1929) was an architect working in Falkirk from c. 1900-1929.
He was born in Glasgow and was the son of Francis Page and Janet Mathieson and married Anne Anderson Graham. He died at The Bungalow, High Station Road, Falkirk aged 73. (Source GROS) |
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Bo'ness Community Council
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Bo'ness Community Council was established in under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). Community councils were to co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for their area and other interested public authorities the views of the communities they represent relating to matters administered by the local authorities. Community councils have a wide remit and can act as campaigning organisations and raise awareness of specific local issues.
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Polmont Community Council
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Polmont Community Council was established in under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). Community councils were to co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for their area and other interested public authorities the views of the communities they represent relating to matters administered by the local authorities. Community councils have a wide remit and can act as campaigning organisations and raise awareness of specific local issues.
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Larbert & Stenhousemuir Community Council
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Larbert & Stenhousemuir Community Council was established in under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65). Community councils were to co-ordinate and express to the local authorities for their area and other interested public authorities the views of the communities they represent relating to matters administered by the local authorities. Community councils have a wide remit and can act as campaigning organisations and raise awareness of specific local issues.
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Peggy Gray
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Factor for Dunmore Estate
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Bo'ness Kinneil Parish Church
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Pre-reformation parish belonged to the Abbey of Holyrood. Kinneil was the original parish for the Bo'ness area from the medieval period. The people of Bo'ness built a new church in 1634-36 and petitioned for a separate parish, granted by Act of Parliament in 1649. In 1669 the changes in population meant that Kinneil Parish was no longer viable, and the two parishes were re-united as Bo'ness Parish by Act of Parliament, 23 Dec 1669
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Robert Stewart
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Architect
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A N Malcolm
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Alexander Nisbet Malcolm (1877-1955) was an architect working in Falkirk and later in Stirling. He was in partnership with T M Copland from c 1900 until 1921 when he was appointed architect for Stirlingshire Education Authority and then County Architect in 1932. He retired in 1943.
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Allied Ironfounders Ltd
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Allied Ironfounders Ltd was established in 1929 by an alliance of ironfounding companies across the UK. In the Falkirk area these included M Cockburn & Co, Falkirk Iron Co, McDowall, Steven & Co, Forth & Clyde & Sunnyside and Callendar Iron Co. Other companies joined later, including Dobbie Forbes in 1934. The companies were taken over by Glynwed in 1969. Glynwed Foundries has its registered office in Birmingham.
Glynwed Foundries was incorporated in 1961 with the registration number 0068751. |
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