The following are a series of memories of my mother, Ruth Irene Currie (1897-1982), written for her children, grandchildren and future generations. It is mainly about her life as a young girl in rural Ontario. It was written in longhand.
Having reached the age of 76,with all my family now deceased, I must get on with my story about your ancestors. There can be no further delay. The price one pays for living beyond three score years and ten is that one finds oneself carried into an alien world and at times I feel quite faint in a world so different from the one I grew up in. I think I will quite enjoy this trip down memory lane and when I reach the end of it I will have found my true self and feel at home in this world of today. It is true that much of my ancestors lives are unconsciously in me - but I hope I have changed with the changing world.
The Graham Clan
I shall deal briefly with our illustrious ancestor, The 1st Marquess of Montrose, who fought in religious wars in Scotland in the fifteenth century and is today one of their great heroes. Lord Tweedsmuir wrote his biography late in his life because of all his boyhood memories of great men in the past James Graham, The 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 - 1650) was the greatest. There is a monument erected to his memory in Edinburgh on the spot where he was killed with the inscription "There ended a life of meteoric splendor"
Remember him ! I love to think I had an ancestor whose life "ended in meteoric splendor"
The Graham Clan had been converted to protestantism by John Knox. In Scotland it was called the Presbyterian faith. Your Scottish ancestors were all Presbyterians.
I feel I am definitely connected with the Montrose clan. Your great grandmother came from Loc Lomand. That was the seat of the Montroses'. They all graduated from the ancient university of St Andrews in Edinburgh. Your great Grandmother's father and two sons also graduated from this university.
Having reached the age of 76,with all my family now deceased, I must get on with my story about your ancestors. There can be no further delay. The price one pays for living beyond three score years and ten is that one finds oneself carried into an alien world and at times I feel quite faint in a world so different from the one I grew up in. I think I will quite enjoy this trip down memory lane and when I reach the end of it I will have found my true self and feel at home in this world of today. It is true that much of my ancestors lives are unconsciously in me - but I hope I have changed with the changing world.
The Graham Clan
I shall deal briefly with our illustrious ancestor, The 1st Marquess of Montrose, who fought in religious wars in Scotland in the fifteenth century and is today one of their great heroes. Lord Tweedsmuir wrote his biography late in his life because of all his boyhood memories of great men in the past James Graham, The 1st Marquess of Montrose (1612 - 1650) was the greatest. There is a monument erected to his memory in Edinburgh on the spot where he was killed with the inscription "There ended a life of meteoric splendor"
Remember him ! I love to think I had an ancestor whose life "ended in meteoric splendor"
The Graham Clan had been converted to protestantism by John Knox. In Scotland it was called the Presbyterian faith. Your Scottish ancestors were all Presbyterians.
I feel I am definitely connected with the Montrose clan. Your great grandmother came from Loc Lomand. That was the seat of the Montroses'. They all graduated from the ancient university of St Andrews in Edinburgh. Your great Grandmother's father and two sons also graduated from this university.
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