Double Trouble with Double-Barrell? (Part 1)

The Maxwell-Müller Family

The surname Maxwell-Müller has multiple variants so cross-referencing all possibilities

has been essential but discrepancies appear throughout documentation.

It has been almost impossible to work-out how the name came about.

The following research is limited to what is available from various on-line sources

It appears that the original surname was Mullër and the middle names were then incorporated.

(Census information has been taken from transcriptions so may not be completely accurate)

1841 Census (6^th/7^th June 1841)

Heriot Row, N 21, St. Stephen Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian

John Martin Müller, Teacher of Music, age 30, born c1811, Scotland

Mary Müller, age 25, born c1816, Scotland

Harriet F. Müller, age 20, born c1821, Scotland

Charles W. M. Müller, Teacher of Music, age 19, born c1822, Scotland

Theodosia Müller, age 2,born c1839, Midlothian, Scotland.

The relationship between John, Harriet and Theodosia

are confirmed on the registration of Theodosia’s marriage in 1862

John, Mary and Charles may have been siblings and if so,

were the children of  Christian Miller , Musician and Mary Bigger.

(Only Charles’ birth  found in IGI, Batch No: C11821-8)

Theodosia Yonge Müller was the daughter of John Martin Müller, Professor of Music

and Harriette? Byers Mercer?

She married William Crawford, a Portrait Painter on 24^th October 1862

at St. Paul’s (Episcopal) Chapel, York Place Edinburgh
.

Both her parents are listed as deceased on the marriage registration document.

The officiating Minister was Rev. Leonard Shafto Orde.

No birth or baptism documentation has been found for Theodosia,

neither has any marriage documentation been found for her parents.

At the age of 12 years old, Theodosia is listed on the 1851 Census as a scholar,

boarding at 23 Abercromby Street in Edinburgh.

(This may be Abercromby Place)

Head of Household was an Elizabeth Weir, Governess

This could possibly indicate that her parents had died as this address is only a few hundred yards

from Heriot Row where the family had been listed as living on the 1841 Census.

Abercromby Place and Heriot Row are a continuation of one street bordering Queen Street Gardens.

O.S. Six-inch, 1^st Edition, Scotland, 1843-1882. Edinburghshire, Sheet 2, Survey Date: 1852, Publication Date: 1853.

By 1861, Theodosia (now listed on the 1861 Census with a middle initial of Y.)

aged 22 is still a boarder (and fund-holder) but is now living at 26 Royal Terrace.

Head of Household (as in 1851) was Elizabeth Weir, School Mistress.

O.S. Six-inch, 1^st Edition, Scotland, 1843-1882. Edinburghshire, Sheet 2, Survey Date: 1852, Publication Date: 1853.

Theodosia Yonge Müller died age 84 on 6^th August 1922

At 3 Boulevard de Grancy, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Unfortunately, there are no parents named on the (British Consulate) registration,

but she was listed as:

Theodosia Yonge Gow-Gregor, formerly Crawford nee Müller,

widow of a British Subject by birth

The informant is un-named, but was listed as the son of C. Gow-Gregor.

Theodosia’s first husband, William Crawford, A.R.S.A. died 2^nd August 1869.

(The couple known to have had at least one child.)

Charles William Maxwell-Müller was possibly the uncle of Theodosia Maxwell-Müller

(No definite verification found except comparisons on 1841 Census)

He married Janet Marion Alexander Wardrop

On 4^th March 1844 at Glasgow (Source: Daughter Leonora’s Birth Reg.)

The IGI lists a date for their marriage as 28^th February 1844 at Ardrossan in Ayrshire

This may have been the calling the Banns (IGI Batch No: M11576-4)

Charles William Maxwell- Müller was born on 26^th August 1821 in Dumfries

and christened there on 10^th October 1821

Lawful son of Christian Miller, Musician and Mary Bigger.

(Also found in IGI, Batch No: C11821-8)

Their (Known) Children:

Jessie born (around) November 1844 (M.I., Camelon Cemetery)

Eliza (or Elise) Maxwell-Müller* was born 9^th March 1846, Glasgow

[Mother listed as Marion] (Batch No: C11975-2)

Caroline Maxwell-Müller* was born 30^th October 1847, Glasgow (Batch No: C11967-3)

Robert William Maxwell-Müller* was born 31^st July 1849, Linlithgow

[Mother listed as Jessie] (Batch No: C119943)

Maria Maxwell-Müller* was born 9^th February 1851, Linlithgow

[Mother listed as Jessie] (Batch No: C119943)

Joanna Gray Maxwell-Müller was born 18^th March 1854, Edinburgh (Batch No: C119844)

Annabella Maxwell-Müller was born 18^th May 1856, Peebles (Batch No: C117681)

Martin Maxwell-Müller was born 18^th May 1856, Peebles (Batch No: C117681)

Doras Maxwell-Müller was born 3^rd August 1857, Peebles (Batch No: C117681)

Charles Walton Maxwell-Müller was born 30^th April 1859, Edinburgh (Batch No: C116851)

John Maxwell-Müller was born 10^th March 1861, Stirling

Leonora Maxwell-Müller* was born 3^rd July 1862, Hutchisontown, Glasgow

[Surname registered as Maxwell-Miller]

Barbara Maxwell-Müller was born 1875

* Eliza’s (or Elise) birthplace is listed as France on 1851 Census and as Paris, France on 1871 Census

Caroline’s birthplace is listed as Sardinia on 1851 Census and as Nice, France on 1871 Census

Robert William’s birthplace is listed as Leith on 1851 Census

Maria’s birthplace is listed as Leith on 1851 Census and as Linlithgow on the 1871 Census

Leonora’s birthplace is listed as Linlithgow on 1871 Census

Eldest daughter Jessie died 19^th April 1849 aged 4½ years (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

1851 Census (30^th/31^st March 1851)

80 High Street

, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Charles William Maxwell Müller, Professor of Music,

House Proprietor & Fund-holder, age 29, born c1822, Dumfries

Janet Marion Alexander Müller, Wife, Land & House Proprietor, age 28, born c1823, Glasgow

Eliza (or Elise) Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 5, born c1846, France (British Subject)

Caroline Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 3, born c1848, Sardinia (British Subject)

Robert William Maxwell-Müller, Son, age 1, born c1850, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Maria Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 7 months, born c1850, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Twins Annabella and Martin both died in infancy, May 1856 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

80 High Street is the address of ‘Occasions’.

O.S. 25 inch 1^st Edition, Scotland, 1855-1882., Stirling Sheet XXIX.8 (Falkirk), Survey date: 1859, Publication date: 1865

1861 Census (7^th/8^th April 1861

Bonnyside House*, Falkirk (Landward), Stirlingshire

Gilbert Dewar, Head, Farmer (of 30 acres employing 13 men & 16 women),

age 25, born c1836, Queensferry, Midlothian

Charles W. M. Miller (Müller), Visitor, House Proprietor & Shareholder, age 39, born c1822, Dumfries

Thomas Maxwell, Ploughman, age 52, born c1809, Douglas, Dumfriesshire

Jane Maxwell, Domestic Servant, age 50, born c1811, Glenbuck, Ayrshire

Jane Maxwell, Domestic Servant, age 13, born c1848, Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire

Janet Maxwell, Scholar, age 10, born c1851, Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire

James Maxwell Hamilton, Boarder, age 1, born c1860, Corstorphine, Edinburgh

*It seems more likely that the address would have been Bonnyside Farm rather than Bonnyside House.

The two properties sit side by side and are both still in existence.

It is unknown if there was any family relationships between Charles

and Gilbert Dewar or any of the Maxwells listed.

The whereabouts of his wife Janet and children is unknown – he may have been boarding in the area

looking for a new home - as by 1871 he and his family were living at Glenyards.

Bonnyside Farmhsouse

Bonnyside House

When daughter Leonora was born on 3^rd July 1862 at South Greenbank, Glasgow, her father Charles

who registered her birth gave his residence as Glenyards, Stirlingshire.

Her name is recorded as Leonora Maxwell MILLER

1871 Census (2^nd/3^rd April 1871)

Glenyards, Falkirk Landward, Stirlingshire (2^nd/3^rd April 1871)

Charles William Maxwell-Müller, Head, Professor of Music, age 48, born c1823, Dumfries, Dumfriess-shire

Elise Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 25, born c1846, Paris, France

Caroline Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 23, born c1848, Nice, France

Marie Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, Art Student, age 26, born c1845, Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire

Leonna Maxwell-Müller, Daughter, age 8, born c1863, Glasgow, Lanarkshire

The Land Ownership Commission 1872-73. (Published 1874)

The report of a Parliamentary Commission giving the names of every owner of land (of 1 acre or more) in each county.

The estimated acreage of Glenyards, Denny (owned by Charles William Maxell Müller)

was 68 acres and had a gross annual value of £113 and 2 shillings.

Eliza (or Elise) Maxwell-Müller died age 28 and was buried in Camelon Cemetery on 2^nd December 1874

(M.I. Camelon Cemetery + Burial Record)

Joanna Gray Maxwell-Müller (wife of  R. C. [or G.] Fraser) died age 19 on 5^th January 1874
(M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

Dora Maxwell-Müller died age 19 on 4^th October 1876 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

1881 Census (3^rd/4^th April 1881)

Glenyards Cottages, Falkirk Landward, Stirlingshire

Thomas McH. Baird, Head, Pattern Filer, age 22, born c1859, Bothkennar, Stirlingshire

Jane Baird, Wife, age 22, born c1859, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll

Mary MacDonald, Visitor, Sister-in-Law, age 16, born c1865, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Argyll

Also: Charles William Maxwell- Müller, Temporary Lodger, Proprietor of 70 acres, 45 arable, age 59

Born c1822, Dumfries, Dumfriess-shire

Charles Walton Maxwell-Müller died age 22 on 26^th January 1882 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

1880/1881 Valuation Roll

Glenyards is listed as having 10 ‘residences’, these are (by reference in Valuation Roll):

1036:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller . Occupier: same.

1037:

Lands & Farm, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier(s): Misses C. M. Muller & Executors of Miss C. M. Müller.

1038:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny.

Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller. Occupier: Empty.

1039:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: Alexander Smith, Baker, Glasgow

1040:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: Dugald Walker, Dairyman

1041:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: A. W. Stewart, Grocer

1042:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: James McAree, Joiner

1043:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. (2) Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: Empty

1044:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: John Hutton, Manager, Spelter Co.

1045:

House & Garden, Glenyards, Greenhill, Denny. Proprietor: C.W.M. Müller.

Occupier: - - McIntyre, Farm Servant

1891 Census (5^th/6^th April 1891)

Glenyards Villa, Falkirk Landward, Stirlingshire

Charles William Maxwell- Müller, Head, Retired Professor of Music, age 69, born c1822, Dumfries, Dumfriess-shire

Also: Agnes Milne, House Keeper, age 39, born c1852, Greenock, Renfrewshire

Janet Marion Alexandra Maxwell-Müller (nee Wardrop) died on 9^th April 1891
(M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

Charles William Maxwell-Müller died age 73 and was buried in Camelon Cemetery on 27^th November 1894

(M.I. Camelon Cemetery + Burial Record)



The Royal Red Cross

The Order of St. Sava 5th Class (Similar medal for illustration purposes only)

The Nursing Record & Hospital World, July 29th, 1899

The Nursing Record & Hospital World, September 2^nd, 1899

The following information following Leonora’s nursing career

was very kindly shared by

‘Norman’ (Royalredcross, Great War Online Forum)

Leonora Maxwell-Muller born 3 July 1862 in Glasgow.

Appointed to the temporary Army Nursing Service 12 March 1885

as a replacement for nurses going to Egypt.

Joined the Guards Hospital on the same day.

Appointed to the permanent service on 3 July 1887 but resigned her appointment

on 22 February 1888 to take up an appointment with the Indian Nursing Service.

Appointed Nursing Sister IANS 21 February 1888, promoted acting Superintendent 21 August 1890

and to Lady Superintendent 16 March 1899.

Completes two 5 year terms of service with the IANS ending 16 March 1899.

Awarded RRC in LG dated 25 July 1899

and invested by the Queen at Osborne House on 24 August 1899.

In 1903 (or 1904) married Arthur St. John, late Iniskillings, who she had met when the 2nd. Bn.

Was stationed in India, and took the surname of Maxwell-St.John.

From the following year until 1914 served as a member of the Indian Office Nursing Board

which interviewed and selected candidates for the Indian Nursing Service.

From 1914 to 1915 she served under the British Committee of the French Red Cross

as Matron of the Hopital Auxiliare No. 307 which was the Anglo-French Homeopathic Hospital in Paris.

It was established at Neuilly in the premises of a former sanatorium,  40-75 beds mostly British staff.

The hospital closed March 1916.

Later served with the Serbian Relief Fund in Corfu from 3 June 1916 to 13 September 1916

and in Macedonia as Matron of the SRF hospital there from 13 September 1916 to 8 September 1917.

Awarded Order of St. Sava 5th class by the Serbian government, confirmed in FO records.

Entitlement: RRC (Victoria), British War and Victory medals (FRX) Serbian St. Sava 5^th.

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O.S. Six-inch 2^nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960, Stirlingshire Sheet XXIX.NE,
Publication Date: 1899, Date Revised 1896

1901 Census (31^st March/1^st April 1901)

11 South End Road, Hampstead, London

Leonora M. Muller, Head, Superintendent, Indian Army Nursing Service (Retired),
Age 36, born Scotland

Annette de Caroreso?, Boarder, living on own means, age 47, born Russia (Russian Subject)

Cornelia M. Muller, Niece, age 18, Type Writer etc., Worker, age 18, born Scarborough, Yorkshire

Gertrude Love, Boarder, age 35, Widow/Visitor, born United Stares (not a British Subject)

Collier Cates?, Boarder, Doctor of D…..?, age 35, born Yorshire

Arthur St. John, Visitor, Retired Army Officer, age 38, born India (British Subject)

Leonora married Arthur St. John in 1903 or 1904 at St. Giles District, London?

(England & Wales Free BMD Index)

(July, August, September Quarter)

1911 Census (2^nd/3rd April 1911)

7 Holly Village, Swan Lane, Highgate, North London

Leonora Maxwell St.John, Wife, age 44, Married (for 8 years),

Retired Lady, Superintendent Army Nursing Service, born Glasgow, Scotland

Rosalie Wardrop, Cousin, age 15, at School, born London

Marjorie Howard, Visitor, age 21, Single, born London

1911 Census (2^nd/3rd April 1911)

2 Hartington Road, Garston, Liverpool, West Derbyshire

Hugh Thomas Mapleton, Head, age 41, Single, Governing Director of Nut Food Factory,

Employer, born Gravesend, Kent

Captain Arthur St. John, Visitor, age 48, Married, Retired Army Officer, late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Born Julandar, India (Resident)

Caroline Maxwell-Müller died age 65 on 24^th June 1913

and was buried in Camelon Cemetery on 3^rd July 1913

(M.I. Camelon Cemetery + Burial Record)

Marie Maxwell-Müller died age 67 on 8^th August 1919

and was buried in Camelon Cemetery on 23^rd August 1919

(M.I. Camelon Cemetery + Burial Record)

Elizabeth Arrot Watt Maxwell-Müller nee Salmond (wife of Robert William Maxwell-Müller)

Died on 29^th July 1921 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

Robert William Maxwell-Müller nee Salmond died age 78 on 29^th July 1921 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

Arthur John St. John (husband of Leonora Maxwell-Müller), Captain, Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers

Died age 75 on 16^th February 1938 (M.I. Camelon Cemetery)

Leonora Maxwell-Müller (widow of Arthur John St. John)

Died age 90 at Falkirk Royal Infirmary on 4^th February 1953 (Death Registration)

The informant of her death was possibly a cousin but the name and relationship is not clear.

This person obviously not sure of her age and stated that she was 88.

Arthur John St. John’s Will was registered in the  National Probate Calendar of England & Wales

(Index of Wills and Administrations)

Probate Date: 22^nd October 1938, Registered in London.

Arthur St. John wrote a novel entitled  ‘Why Not Now?”

which was published the year after his death by Ebury Press in 1939.

The novel called for an ‘anarchist utopia on earth’. (Cover illustration below)

He is said to have visited Tolstoy at  Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula Region of Russia in 1897

and was later to b ecome active in the Tolstoyan Brotherhood movement in the

Hackney/Islington and Croydon districts of London.

He became Secretary of the Penal Reform League founded in 1907.

Arthur St.John was cremated on the 19^th February 1938 at Glasgow (or Maryhill)  Crematorium

in the Western Necropolis, Tresta Road, Glasgow.

His ashes were scattered at Dumyat in the Ochil Hills (Source: Personal Communication with Mrs. Anne Paterson)

National Wallace Monument and Duymat Hill, the Ochils.

Leonora St John was one of the founding members of the

Greenhill Branch of Scottish Women’s Rural Institute.

The Institute was established on 19^th October 1925

From handwritten letters held by Stirling Archives, it appears that the Institute’s first meeting

was held in the Maxwell-Müller Hall which was a wooden hut type building at Glenyards,

later to become known at the Maxwell-Müller ‘Hut’.

This hut was said to be gifted by Leonora and her husband Arthur St. John to the ‘Rural’

and the title deeds to the property handed over on the 24^th May 1948.

However, in one of the obituaries to Leonora’s (in an unknown publication),

it is stated that the property was gifted by Marie Maxwell-Müller, Leonora’s younger sister,

so is possibly incorrect.  (Marie died 23^rd August 1919)

The Hut was demolished and has been replaced by new housing

as can be seen in the street view below.

(Note that the telegraph poles have never been straightened!!)



Leonora was President of the Greenhill S.W.R.I. between 1925 – 1940,

then between 1946 – 1953, the year of her death.

(Source: Stirling Archives, SWRI Yearly Programmes/Syllabus)

The above photograph shows Leonora ‘cutting the cake’ at the 21^st Birthday Party.

She would have been 84 years old.

 (The original photograph is held by Stirling Archives)

Leonora died at Falkirk Royal Infirmary on 4^th February 1953

and was also cremated on the 7^th February 1953 at Glasgow (or Maryhill)  Crematorium.

It is unknown where her ashes were scattered.

Glasgow Crematorium seen from Garnethill Hebrew Cemetery.

The Crematorium is the oldest in Scotland (opening in 1895) is located in the grounds of

the Western Necropolis Cemetery,

Tresta Road, Glasgow

Leonora died age 90 at Falkirk Royal Infirmary on 4^th February 1953

(Death Registration)

The informant of her death was possibly a cousin but the name and relationship is not clear.

(This person, who listed their address as 10 Clarendon Place, Stirling

was obviously not sure of her age and stated that she was 88.)

Copy of a framed photograph held by Stirling Archives.

Leonora’s Obituaries

Scottish Home and Country Magazine (published April 1953)

Mrs St. John, Greenhill, Stirling and West Perth

Greenhill Institute has suffered a great loss in the death of Mrs St. John, their oldest member,

but one who was young in heart to the last.

For many years she had been a nurse – in London, Birmingham, Madras and Burma.

She was decorated by Queen Victoria, and held Serbian and French decorations as well.

After she and her husband came to live at Greenhill, she took a great interest in all local affairs

and in the WRI in particular, who activities were centred in the hut gifted by her sister. 

Hers was certainly a life spent in the service of her fellow-men,

and she will long be remembered by the many who admired and loved her.’

The above 2 column Obituary was amongst the S.W.R.I. Documents held by Stirling Archives.

The Publication is unknown.

The Family Gravestone in Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk.

   

The Monumental Inscription:

In memory of Charles William Maxwell-Müller, Pianist and Composer

Died 22^nd November 1894

And his spouse Janet Marion Alexandra Wardrop died 9^th April 1891

And their daughter Elise died 27^th November 1874

Also of their children

Joanna Gray widow of R.C. Fraser died 5^th January 1874 aged 19 years

Dora died 4^th October 1876 aged 19 years

Charles Walton died 26^th January 1882 aged 22 years

Jessie died 19^th April 1849 aged 4½ years

Martin and Annabella born and died in May 1856

Their son-in-law Capt. Arthur John St. John, Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers

Who died 16^th February 1938 aged 75 years

In loving memory of Caroline Maxwell-Müller

Who erected this monument died 24^th June 1913

Marie Maxwell-Müller died 18^th August 1919

Robert William Maxwell-Müller, G.E., died 24^th November 1935 aged 78 years

And his spouse Elizabeth Arrot Watt Salmond died 29^th July 1921

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He belonged to Glasgow

Will Fyffe

Born at 36 Ferry Road
in Dundee on February 16^th 1885,

the eldest child of John Fyffe and Janet Rhynd Cunningham

died at Memorial Cottage Hospital, St. Andrews in Fife on December 14^th 1947

whilst recuperating from an ear operation at his hotel also in St. Andrews.

The notice of his death appeared in the Glasgow Herald

of  Monday 15^th December 1947

The following is a transcription of his Obituary which was printed in the same edition.

Will Fyffe was no sentimentalist. He sang comic songs. He sang them brilliantly,

and he never considered that fame imposed upon him the obligation of extending

his repertoire to include the maudlin, the moral, or the heavily philosophical.

That is perhaps one of his highest distinctions.

As an entertainer he ranked with Gracie Fields and Harry Lauder,

but in some ways he was greater than either of them.

He did not merely write his songs. He produced a gallery of portraits,

each one a model of observation and understanding.

Each had its prototype and caricature never went the length of fantasy.

His engineer was an old East Coast sailor whom he has known in Methil

when he way a schoolboy. He had built up and amalgamated

the character over a long period of years.

The inspiration for “I belong to Glasgow” came one Saturday night in St. Enoch Station,

where he saw a very drunk man getting on board the Kilmarnock train –

a friendly alcoholic – who waved three £1 notes in the faces of his fellow travellers

and told them – “I come frae Kilmarnock, and when I get back there it’ll belong tae me.”

For all that in the course of the years he made for himself an enormous reserve

of characters, Will Fyffe presented each one for the first time almost unwillingly.

He had all the music-hall performer’s ingrained dislike of fresh material, and he

would admit that it took him six or seven weeks to feel happy in a new number.

This accounts for his lukewarm regard for the cinemas and the radio.

He felt that the radio ‘killed’ a new song, and he grudges the loss.

In a 15-minute programme of patter that might represent 18 months

of studying and polishing.

Will Fyffe had an acute and a first-class mind, he had fewer affectations than

others of his celebrated stage contemporaries and he was a fine angler.

He might have been a successful ‘straight’ actor.

He had gone through all the required routine,

even going the length of playing (as a child actor in his father’s tent theatre)

the parts of Little Willie and Little Eva.

The father was in his own way also a remarkable man. He was a shipyard worker

who later became a teacher of languages in University College, Dundee.

Teaching soon gave place, however, to the management of a travelling theatre,

and it was there that Will learned to play everything from Little Willie to Polonius.

Will Fyffe had his ups and downs.

He wrote sketches which were rejected by Harry Lauder, and had been in

such straits that he took a job as a waiter in a public-house in Lancashire.

He appeared before the First World War as the comic character

in a musical comedy called ‘Bo-Bo’.

He first played in the Palladium on July 18th, 1921.

He never pandered to low taste, and we recollect that when interviewed

after he was created C.B.E. in 1942 he said:

“I would rather tell an old, clean story than a new, dirty one.”

He was laid to rest in the Glasgow Western Necropolis

on Wednesday 17^th December 1947.

A report of his funeral was printed in the Glasgow Herald, Thursday 18^th December 1947.

Glasgow Western Necropolis

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Benny John Lynch

Is generally considered to one of the finest flyweight boxers

to come out of Great Britain.

He was born in Florence Street

in the Gorbals district of Glasgow on 2^nd April 1913.

He turned professional in 1931 at the age of 18 and in 1935 won the Scottish Flyweight Title going on to win British, European and World Titles.

He died on 6^th August 1946, aged 33

from pneumonia brought on by malnutrition and alcoholism.

The stone in the above photograph was erected in Section 15

of  St. Kentigern’s Cemetery in Glasgow by his fans.

Benny was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1998.

St. Kentigern's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glasgow.

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Collapse!

The North Wall of Glasgow Cathedral ‘New’ Burial Ground ……

well, part of the North Wall!

The above photograph was taken on 5^th May, 2012 and shows that possibly at least 30 lairs

in the burial ground are now buried underneath quite a few tons of rubble.

The stone enclosure seen on the left of the photograph is Lair N46

(The Graham or Maxwell-Graham’s Family enclosure).

The collapsed area is roughly indicated by the 2 red arrows on the above view.

Whether this wall has been in existence for the same length of time that the burial ground has
is unknown but it’s appearance matched that of all the other sandstone perimeter
and the three ‘internal’ walls which divide up the area.

The purchase of lairs in this north section date back to as early as 1801 – 210 years ago.

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Winter wandering

Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk, Stirlingshire

Denny Cemetery, Denny, Stirlingshire

Lambhill Cemetery, Glasgow

New Monkland Churchyard, Glenmavis, North Lanarkshire

St. Peter's Cemetery, Glasgow

The Western Necropolis, Glasgow

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