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Scottish Youth Hostel Association
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James T Fair
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Bo'ness Literary Association
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The Bo'ness Literary Association organised lectures on various literary subjects including Robert Burns.
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Adam Baptie
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Adam Baptie (c1905-1990) lived in Grangemouth and was an amateur photographer. He worked for Grangemouth Town Council in the Rent Office for many years and he was the Gardening and Nature Correspondent for the Grangemouth Advertiser for over 40 years. He built up an extensive collection of slide photographs of local buildings and towns and of plants, trees and local landscapes which were donated to Falkirk Museums in 1990.
Adam Baptie was a member of Kerse Church, the RSPB, the Youth Hostel Association and the Probus Club. He was married to Agnes and they had one son, Peter. [Source : obituary in Grangemouth Advertiser] Along with A G Fyfe, and other Grangemouth residents he had a strong interest in Grangemouth local history and was helpful to Falkirk Museums during the Grangemouth Heritage projects based at the Workshop and Store, Abbotsinch. He was active in the local photography club. [Source: J M Sanderson] |
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British Sailors' Society Sailors' Hostel
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Camelon Youth Club
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Alexander Balloch
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Grazier
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Stirling County Council. Youth Employment Service
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Falkirk Youth Theatre
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James Bald
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Alexander Monro
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Writer
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Trustees of James Oliphant Trust
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James Oliphant is described as Millwright or Engineer in the legal papers held in Falkirk Archives. The properties appear to have been in the Oliphant family for about 50 years.
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Andrew Mitchell
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Second son of Thomas Mitchell who owned subjects in Laurieston.
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Trustees of Thomas Taylor of Bankhead Trust
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Agnes Marshall
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John Marshall's widow. John Marshall was a merchant and baker in Larbert.
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John McKenzie
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Photographer
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Peter Burd
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Subjects in the north Back Row of Falkirk were conveyed by William Glen of Forganhall to Peter Burd in liferent and to his son Peter James Burd in fee.
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Joseph Stainton
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William Coubrough
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The first evidence of the family in these papers is in a Disposition of 1719 of subjects “at the east end of the Back Row of Falkirk’’ in favour of William Cowburgh, drover in Falkirk.
The spelling of the name varies greatly – from Coubrough (the most common ) to Cowbrough and Cowburgh. In the titles of the Back Row subjects by the early 19th century the subjects were described as ‘"in the Kerse Lane". The 1831 Valuation Roll has two relevant entries, both in Falkirk Parish – 1.That part of Elrig possessed by H.Coubrough and 2.-Thomas Henderson’s Houses and Lands in the Town of Falkirk purchased from William Coubrough, part of Westquarter (most likely the subjects mentioned above ‘’at the east end of the Back Row’’) These subjects had been sold by William and Henry Coubrough in 1785. Love says (vol 1,p.319 ) that the Coubrough family was “well known and highly respected, residing for several generations in the Slamannan district”. William Coubrough of Elrig was a partner of the Falkirk Union Bank at the time of its formation and until its failure in 1818. Dr William Coubrough, (1787-1864) of whom Love writes in the reference quoted above, was probably his son. He is said to have been for 40 years ‘’in the service of Carron Company as medical officer to the miners at Kinnaird and several other pits’’. In 1816 Dr Coubrough married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Aitken, messenger, auctioneer and town drummer (see also records of James Coubrough in the Russel & Aitken collections). There is also reference to William Coubrough, merchant, Falkirk and John Coubrough, farmer, Thorn. William Coubrough of Elrig was noted as living with John Coubrough of Thorn following the failure of the Bank and they may have been brothers. |
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Falkirk Tonic Sol-fa Association
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Founded by John Telfer and members of his Tonic Sol-fa classes
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