Hi Joette
How terrible. I guess that it just goes to show that things never change.
Tragedies are tragedies whether they are just a few years ago or over a hundred. The reason that the recent ones seem worse is because there are people alive who mourn.
Regards
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AnneM
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As Russell says the various places mentioned are very close together and you have to look at the flow of the water which tends to be towards the Holy Loch. In addition, the Scotsman report states that he was on his way between Greenock and Blairmore and that he was expected to return by steamer. Hunter's Quay is between the two. In those days steamers would have gone into Blairmore pier and there would have been no need to travel by road from Dunoon as there is now unless you're on the Waverley.
What the Scotsman does not tell you is whether he ever kept his appointment in Blairmore. That must have been ascertained in the course of the investigation. Maybe he took his clients for a liquid lunch or vice versa.
My grandfather's uncle whom he regarded as his brother drowned in the Holy Loch in 1903 and that was the sum total of the findings as well. Drownings in that part of the world are sadly not that uncommon. I remember one or two from my childhood including sadly a 7 year old who drifted out on a lilo.
Anne
What the Scotsman does not tell you is whether he ever kept his appointment in Blairmore. That must have been ascertained in the course of the investigation. Maybe he took his clients for a liquid lunch or vice versa.
My grandfather's uncle whom he regarded as his brother drowned in the Holy Loch in 1903 and that was the sum total of the findings as well. Drownings in that part of the world are sadly not that uncommon. I remember one or two from my childhood including sadly a 7 year old who drifted out on a lilo.
Anne
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AnneM
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Where have my brains gone this morning?? Don't answer that. It's the prospect of having to drive to Fraserburgh that's doing it.
You may well find more information in the local paper for the area. I would think it would make reasonably big news. The paper is the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, known as the Standard and has been going for ever and a day.
This is its website:
http://www.dunoon-observer.co.uk/
Hope they will answer a query from you.
Anne
PS You could also try the Greenock Telegraph. Don't know as much about them.
You may well find more information in the local paper for the area. I would think it would make reasonably big news. The paper is the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, known as the Standard and has been going for ever and a day.
This is its website:
http://www.dunoon-observer.co.uk/
Hope they will answer a query from you.
Anne
PS You could also try the Greenock Telegraph. Don't know as much about them.
Anne
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Hi Sheila,
If he was from Greenock, there may be an article in the Greenock Telegraph. If you contact the Watt Library in Greenock they will look it up for you.
One of my relatives also drowned in the River Clyde. Apparently went into the river at Greenock, but the body washed ashore at Ashton. The death was registered in Inverkip.
As Russell stated, you have to know the area.
Ina
If he was from Greenock, there may be an article in the Greenock Telegraph. If you contact the Watt Library in Greenock they will look it up for you.
One of my relatives also drowned in the River Clyde. Apparently went into the river at Greenock, but the body washed ashore at Ashton. The death was registered in Inverkip.
As Russell stated, you have to know the area.
Ina
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Hi Ina and Anne M
Thank you for the info that you gave about the newspapers.
After discovering how James Scott died, I am wondering about other relatives who died relatively young.
I believe that James Scott's death was an accident. Whether or not he had a few drinks that day will never be known.
I also think that if you wanted to get rid of someone in the 19th century, hitting them over the head or something and throwing them in the river would have been a good way of doing it.
Regards
Thank you for the info that you gave about the newspapers.
After discovering how James Scott died, I am wondering about other relatives who died relatively young.
I believe that James Scott's death was an accident. Whether or not he had a few drinks that day will never be known.
I also think that if you wanted to get rid of someone in the 19th century, hitting them over the head or something and throwing them in the river would have been a good way of doing it.
Regards
Sheila