Joan Burgoyne 1920-21

Thank you to Joey Johnson-Camick for sharing these photos of the William Arthur Dux Medal for General Excellence presented to her grandmother Joan Burgoyne at the Bank School in session 1920-21.

Joan Cochrane Haddow Burgoyne was born at Lanemark Cottages on the 6th July 1908, the youngest of seven children of Thomas Burgoyne and Joan Cochrane Haddow.

  • Courtesy Joey Johnson-Camick
  • Courtesy Joey Johnson-Camick

At the time Joan was awarded the Arthur Medal she was 12 years old living at Craigbank Terrace along with her father Thomas (47), now an Under-Manager working for New Cumnock Collieries, mother Joan (44), brothers James (23) and Thomas (17) both coal miners and sister Christine (21).

The Burgoyne family later moved to Smithfield Cottage at Connel Park.

Smithfield (OS Map 1908) | Reprodcued with permission of the National Library of Scotland

It was while living at Smithfield that Joan married John Steven Findlay in 1930 and some years later they would settle in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Smithfield Cottage (Robert Guthrie ca. 1978)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MEDAL
Courtesy of Joey Johnson-Camick
MAPS
Reproduced by permission ofthe National Library of Scotland |https://maps.nls.uk/
Images used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.
Map 1: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1909) | Craigbank
Map 2: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1909) | Smithfield