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Camilla Duchess of Rothesay
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 24 May 2013 - 5:00am
Revised: 24 May 2013 - 6:37am — Margaret Fergus...
Memorial Drinking Fountain to Helen Acquroff
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 18 May 2013 - 4:34pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
IN MEMORIUM
HELEN ACQUROFF SISTER CATHEDRAL
1889
ERECTED BY MEMBERS OF THE IOCT
AND OTHER FRIENDS
Erected by:
IOTC
Date:
1889
Material:
marble
Location:
near the junction of Jawbone and Coronation Walks at The Meadows on the west side of the path, inside railings, near the pavilions
Melville Drive
Edinburgh, EH9
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Helen Acquroff
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 18 May 2013 - 4:09pm
Revised: 18 May 2013 - 5:46pm — Margaret Fergus...
Other names:
sometimes recorded as Ellen or Hellen, perfoming name may be Sister Cathedral
Dates:
12th October 1831 - 18th September, 1887
Helen was a Music Teacher, born in Edinburgh on 12th October, second eldest of 10 children: Elizabeth (born 1830), Mary Ann (1833), Thomson Paul (1834), Alexander Fletcher (1836), Ann Paul (1838), John (1839), Susan Carter (1842), Sophia Sarah ((1843), Robert Wingfield (1846). Their parents were John Acquroff, a Hairdresser of Russian ancestry (a naturalised British subject), and Sophia Campbell Fletcher from Ardelach, Nairn.
At the 1841 Census the family were living at 8 Muse Lane.
Plaque in memory of Helen Crummy
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 May 2013 - 8:48pm
Revised: 20 May 2013 - 9:20am — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Women of Achievement
HELEN CRUMMY
Community Activist
Material:
metal
Location:
inside the entrance to the Craigmillar Community Arts Centre
58 Newcraighall Road
Edinburgh, EH15 3HS
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Additional information:
photograph by Andrew Crummy
Helen Crummy
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 16 May 2013 - 8:37pm
Revised: 20 May 2013 - 5:45pm — Margaret Fergus...
Title:
M.B.E., LLD (Dr)
Other names:
Helen Murray Crummy; nee Prentice
Dates:
10 May 1920 – 11 July 2011
Helen Murray Prentice was born in Leith on 10th May 1920, the eldest of 6 children. Her mother was Joanna Blaikie; her father John, an accomplished fiddler, was a watchmaker who trained by Royal Warrant holders Brooks & Co. He set up business in Haddington, then in Edinburgh. The family moved to Niddrie in 1931.
She left school at the age of 13 to work in a shop.
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Memorial plaque at Canongate Kirkyard to Clarinda, Agnes Craig McElhose
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 15 May 2013 - 9:36am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
CLARINDA
ERECTED BY THE NINETY BURNS CLUB
Erected by:
The Ninety Burns Club
Material:
Stone and bronze
Location:
on the North Wall of the Kirkyard, Canongate Kirk
153 Canongate, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH8 8BN
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Plaque to Agnes Craig McElhose
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 15 May 2013 - 9:22am
Revised: 20 May 2013 - 9:16am — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
NEAR THIS SPOT
RESIDED
“CLARINDAâ€
1787 FRIEND 1791
OF ROBERT BURNS
1937 ERECTED BY CLARINDA BURNS CLUB
Erected by:
Clarinda Burns Club
Date:
1937
Material:
Bronze
Location:
On side of building
Potterrow
Edinburgh, EH8 9AL
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Agnes Craig McElhose
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 15 May 2013 - 9:22am
Revised: 20 May 2013 - 9:17am — admin
Other names:
'Clarinda'; nee Agnes Craig; Agnes Maclehose; Agnes MacLehose
Dates:
17 April 1759 - 22 October 1841
Plaque to Ishbel Gordon
Submitted by Alison McCall on 6 May 2013 - 5:18pm
Revised: 7 May 2013 - 10:12am — admin
Dedicated to:
Material:
Wood
Location:
Methlick Parish Church
Methlick, ABD, AB41 7DS
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Images:
Plaque to Margaret Manson Graham
Submitted by Alison McCall on 5 May 2013 - 8:24pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Margaret Manson Graham
Nurse and Missionary : Rescuer of children abandoned to die: Devoted her life to Christian Work in Nigeria
Born Orphir 1860 + Died Arochuku 1933
Date:
1964
Material:
Bronze
Location:
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney.
Broad Street
Kirkwall, KW15 1NX
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