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Helen's Close
Submitted by Alison McCall on 20 October 2015 - 3:00pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Helen's Close
The low ceiling and dog leg plan distinguishes Helen's Close. It takes its name from the long-established restaurant here, which opened in 1975, and was run by Helen McCallum.
Date:
2015
Location:
Helen's Close
Alloway Street
Ayr , KA7 1SH
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Gravestone of Katherine Rolland
Submitted by Alison McCall on 19 October 2015 - 10:19am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
The inscription is in Latin. It translates as:
This Burial-place, such as it is, consecrated to the memory of her most deserving husband, and her own, the afternamed Katharine Rolland had built, who obtained the crown of immortality.
8 January 1660.
Erected by:
Katherine Rolland
Date:
1660
Material:
Stone
Location:
St Nicholas graveyard
Union Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1JL
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Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre
Submitted by Alison McCall on 2 October 2015 - 9:23am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre
Date:
2013
Location:
Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre
James Arrott Drive, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
Dundee , DD1 9SY
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Jacqui Wood
Submitted by Alison McCall on 2 October 2015 - 9:23am
Revised: 2 October 2015 - 3:37pm — Alison McCall
Title:
Doctor
Dates:
Died 2011.
Jacqui Wood grew up in Scunthorpe, and worked as a GP there.
She married in 1966. She moved to Dundee in 1985 with her husband and two daughters. In 1991 she helped found the Ninewells Cancer Campaign as its chairman.
Dr Wood was awarded the MBE in 1998 and in 2005 was made deputy lieutenant of the City of Dundee.She was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Dundee, in 1999, Abertay, in 2005, and St Andrews, in 2009.
Malvina Wells
Submitted by Rose on 29 September 2015 - 5:59pm
Revised: 15 February 2020 - 4:54pm — Alison McCall
Dates:
c.1805 - 22 April 1887 (died aged 82)
Malvina Wells was born a slave in the West Indies. Her mother was a slave, and her father was a planter, John Wells.
She is listed at no. 124 on a list of slaves on the Grand Bay Estate, Carriacou, in 1817 - Malvina, mulatto (i.e. she had a white father) Creole, supposed age 13, no distinguishing marks.
She came to Scotland as a domestic servant to Mrs Joanna Macrae of Edinburgh some time before 1851.
In the 1851 census, Malvina Wells, aged 48, lady's maid, was living at 33 Great King’s Street, Edinburgh, in the MacRae household.
She died in Edinburgh on 22 April 1887.
Jane Whyte Memorial
Submitted by Alison McCall on 29 September 2015 - 12:26pm
Revised: 29 September 2015 - 12:29pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
This memorial erected by public subscription to commemorate the heroism of Jane Whyte who from her croft house here at Waulkmill on the morning of 28th October 1884 brought ashore a life line through a raging sea and saved fifteen men from the wreck of the William Hope.
Erected by:
Public subscription
Date:
1986
Location:
Waulkmill Croft
Aberdour, AB43 7LS
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Additional information:
The memorial consists of a plaque attached to a piece of wall of her ruined crofthouse.
Jane Whyte
Submitted by Alison McCall on 29 September 2015 - 12:26pm
Revised: 11 August 2018 - 7:49am — Alison McCall
Other names:
Her maiden surname was Thain
Dates:
1844- 3 August 1918
Jane Thain was born in King Edward, Aberdeenshire, around 1844. She was the daughter of William Thain, shoemaker and Margaret Findlater.
She married James Whyte, a farm servant, in 1866 and they had a large family of five sons and four daughters. Her eighth child, son Robert, was 15 months old when she single handedly saved the crew of the "William Hope."
Gravestone of Malvina Wells
Submitted by Rose on 29 September 2015 - 12:00am
Revised: 15 February 2020 - 4:44pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Malvina Wells
born in
Garriscou West Indies
Died at Edinburgh
22 April 1887
Aged 82 years
For upwards of 70 years
A faithful
Servant and Friend
In the Family of
Mrs MacRae
Edinburgh
Faithful in all the house as a servant
Hebrews iii 5
Erected by:
The Macrae family, Edinburgh
Date:
Unknown
Material:
Marble
Location:
East side of the graveyard known as St John's Peace Garden, beside St John's Church in Edinburgh's west end
Princes Street
Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ
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Additional information:
The monument to Malvina Wells is at the foot of a much larger one for the family she served, including her mistress Joanna Isabella Maclean (1815-1890), which depicts the head of Joanna's husband John Macrae, WS. The condition of the stone is such that it may have been erected some time after her death (to be verified).
Memorial to Grizel Cochrane
Submitted by Alison McCall on 27 September 2015 - 6:50pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Hear rests the Corps of John Ker of Moristoun
who departed this life the 27
of September 1691, in the thretieth
year of his age.
As also
The Corps of Grissell Cochrane, his Lady,
who died the 21 of March 1748 in the 83rd
year of her age.
The Grissell Cochrane here referred to
is the same who so heroically succeeded
in saving the life of her Father ( the Honble. Sir
John Cochrane of Ochiltree j 2nd son of the 1st Earl of Dundonald then under sentence of death
at Edinburgh, owing to his connection with the
political I troubles of 1685.
Date:
1691
Location:
Legerwood Church
Earlston , TD4 6AT
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Grizel Cochrane
Submitted by Alison McCall on 27 September 2015 - 6:50pm
Revised: 27 September 2015 - 8:46pm — Alison McCall
Other names:
Her married surname was Ker.
Dates:
about 1667-21 March 1748
Grizel Cochrane was the daughter of Sir John Cochrane of Ochiltree and Margaret Strickland. Her father was an MP, but was suspected of involvement in the Rye House Plot to assassinate Charles II. He fled to Holland, and returned to Scotland following the death of Charles II. He was involved in an uprising against James II, and was tried for treason in Edinburgh and condemned to death in July 1685.
