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Queen Victoria fountain
This fountain was erected by Wm Achinachie Esq JR Provost of Aberchirder. It was presented to the burgh on Queen Victoria's Jubilee
Statue of Queen Victoria
Originally situated in St Nicholas Street in 1893 and moved to Queen's Cross in 1964. It's positioned with Victoria facing towards Balmoral.
Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert K Wilson, farmer, and Frances Gray. She had a brother Robert and a twin sister Frances.
She trained as a nurse at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, then moved to London where she specialised in midwifery. In 1969 she moved to South Africa where she worked for two years, including volunteering with the Red Cross flying doctor service. After spending time in Australia and New Zealand, she returned to Scotland and worked in Edinburgh. She died on 23 August 1973, of leukaemia.
Elizabeth Close
Elizabeth Close
There is also a "Wilson Place" in Kemnay named in honour of Elizabeth Wilson's father and a "John Gray Drive" named after her maternal grandfather.
Maggie McIver's Gate
Maggie McIver's Gate
Maggie McIver 1880-1958
'The Founder of Glasgow's renowned Barras Market and the Barrowland Ballroom'
Maggie McIver
Maggie was born in Bridgeton, Glasgow in 1879 to Margaret Hutcheson, a french polisher and Alexander Russell, a policeman.
Maggie began her working life as a french polisher like her mother, but she had her first experience of business aged twelve while looking after a family friend's fruit barrow. Once a little older she opened her own fruit shop and met her future husband and business parter, James McIver.
Cameron Street
Cameron Street
June Cameron Barclay-Allardice
June Cameron was the daughter of Robert Barclay and Sarah Ann Allardice. The family name was amended to Barclay-Allardice in order to inherit Allardice lands.
Her father was responsible for creating the planned centre of Stonehaven and named many of the streets after family members.
Mary Street
Mary Street
Mary Barclay-Allardice
Mary was the daughter of Robert Barclay and Sarah Ann Allardice. The family name was amended to Barclay-Allardice in order to inherit Allardice lands.
Her father was responsible for creating the planned centre of Stonehaven and named many of the streets after family members.
Mary died in 1799, aged 18.