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My great grandmother and some of her family.

Uploaded by young ronnie , Oct 10 2008 09:53 AM

My great grandmother and some of her family.

My great grandmother on my father's side,in the centre of the picture,with some of her daughters and a couple of grandchildren,taken around 1925 probably in Victoria Street known locally as "The Cat's Row" no doubt called that for the amount of moggies that would be on the go feeding on what was left after baiting the lines. Quite a number of the fishing families in Dunbar came from her sons and daughters (Marr,Johnstone,Brunton,Graham to mention only a few) Robert George Brunton,the younger laddie there,was lifeboat cox in the 60s.and 70s.His mother Annie is second from the right.




    Guest
    Nov 26 2009 07:19 PM
    Aye Ronnie, perhaps just a co-incidence but Robert Brunton was the Coxswain of Tynemouth lifeboat 'TYNESIDER'. 1963-1976 - check out http://familytreemak...reet/index.html

    Regards

    Steve E.

    young ronnie
    Nov 26 2009 07:46 PM
    A coincidence right enough Steve.The Robert Brunton(he was always known as "Robert George",never got called anything else) in the photo was cox of the Dunbar boat "Margaret" from the mid 60s to late 70s,taking over from his Uncle Peter Johnstone.His father and uncle were  both cox from the early 30s to the mid 50s and RGB's five brothers were all crew at various times as well ..the RNLI got good service out of that family over the years.