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Bill and Mary married in Lumsden Church, had their reception in the hall and went to stay near Westburn Park in

Aberdeen for their honeymoon. Wullie was married in the manse next to the church. No-one knew which church the old

manse was for. They thought it might be Auchindoir.

“So did you get married in Lumsden?”

“Yes – Lumsden Church.”

“And where did you have your reception?”

“In the old hall. Old hall all done away with now. Completely gone. That’s were we had the dance.

And then we went to Westburn Park at Aberdeen for our honeymoon. And Selina. And Selina’s

Mum and Dod were there. “

“For a few days?”

“??? Kicked me out again. We bided at Queensbriggs when we were married. Put in a bed up the

stair. ??? You’re wrong there Bill!”

“And did you get married in Lumsden? In the church there?”

“The Minister’s house.”

“The manse? The one next door or the one down the hill?”

“The one right beside the church.”

“So you got married in the minister’s house. The one right next door. They always call the other

one the Manse as well- down the lane.”

“That’s the Old Manse”

“Was it a manse? Do you remember it being a manse?”

“It was a manse I think for the old kirk down at Auchindoir. An old ruin.”

[Bits missing from the end of this}

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Rattled over them when ploughing

“There was pict houses up there” [WHERE?]

“Never go – way down in that place.” ??????

Edinbane ?

“Just a wee hole about that size where ???????.

“Oh, there’s Pict houses all over Wester Clova. I used to plough down there and ye ken fine when

you go over them – they rattle all the stones. “

“See, they were all over – they were supposed to ????? to the castle.“

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“Two people came here – to the house – when Mum and Dad were here. One from Canada and one

from somewhere in Scotland and said that they had lived here when they were children. And they

had gone to Lumsden School. And you were saying that’s who they must have been.

“They were parish bairns, you see. And travellers bairns. And both their grannies and

grandfathers lived just the other side of Alford ???. Aye – parish bairns, they’d be.”

“Was it common for people to take in parish bairns? “

“Oh yes quite a few were taken in. There were a few kids. Down the village, there was a few good

bairns. There was a boy, and Jimmy. And a girl – Rebecca. That was the tink. When Issac left the

school he took all the rest away. And I saw Issac when I was about 24 and I saw him. And he said

that Davie was about Aberdeen somewhere. But he didn’t know where.

She wore ??? to school?”

“????????? up Smiddie Lane.

“When I started school I left from ??? I come from ??? The place over the back of the hill – Willie

Yates has it now. A ruin now. I came over the hill from there. “

“I’ve never walked up there but Mum … I would like to walk up there but Mum was saying there

were a few people that lived up there. Grannie and Granded …. Woodend was the right name of it.

Two parks down …. Up past Boghead. “

Where the Bonnie Socks were.

????? Something about Hugh?

“They were all up there. I left the school at 12 1/2.

You were a working man by the time you were 12.

Came here in 44. ???????? Came to Deskie in 44.

Worked at the pub at that time. Not Lumsden – Kildrummy.”

Hardy lad at that time – drove the car, worked in the bar, worked the petrol pumps.

I’d have been about 16 or 17.

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Affectionately remembered different people. Some swore a lot, but not in certain company!

???? [can’t make out intro]

“When I was in the army I met a guy and his relations where there. He was a major in the army –

he said to me the next time I went on leave he wanted a ??? of that house but I lost touch with him

but they were related to Kirkcaldy – to that folk of Jimmy Middleton – him at Auchindoir.”

“I ken where you are – the old manse.”

“There’s a road that goes over that way where Pat Dunn used to stay and there’s a road that goes

over the back way to Craig, over that back way. I remember when there was work being done on

that route folk going over the back way. A kind of rough road.”

“I remember when Pat Dunn lived up there with Peter Dunn. I remember him. He used to come to

the shop and used to come with the front-loader on the tractor. And he never liked having anything

like sausages – meat that he knew what it as. He didn’t want a pie ‘cos he didn’t know what was in

it. He didn’t want sausages because he didn’t know what was in them. He just wanted meat – a

piece of meat and he would buy a piece of plat k or whatever he was wanting and chuck it in the

front-loader, regardless of what had been in it. And we would say “Do you want a bag?” “No.”

And he’d just throw it in. “

“Do you mind his nice language?” “Oh yes – it was quite colourful at times. I liked him though.”

“Aye – he was alright.”

“But regardless of what he’d had in it – sometimes it was muddy and everything and he would just

hurl in the shopping and away.”

“Him and me walked up to top of the hill – up past Auchinleith way up there and there was a funeral

on the Cabrach and he said to me, “Oh, I didn’t think they would die up the Cabrach”.”

“Mrs Rose met him on the Auchinleith road and Mrs Rose was down looking at cows and there

was a cow with a stiff hind leg and I can’t tell you what Peter said was wrong with it! Oh, what a

guy he was. What a man.”

“And that wifey – she bides over there a bitty. She met Peter the first time she came up here up

from England. She was looking about for that place over there. And she met Peter. Oh, your on the

so-and- so road, he said. Worse than than! But ???? to Glenbogie House to let his wife hear him

swearing and he never swore once. ????”

“Charlie Jamieson was in North Deskie before we got it. And he never swore in front of Charlie

Jamieson.

“Mr Rose was going all the way to Lairg and his mother was in the car. Never swore all the way to

Lairg. ????

“Oh he was an awful lad.”