A New Cumnock Family Album

Thank you to George Gilbert for sharing photos and memories of New Cumnock

Family | Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert (nee Campbell)
Obituary Elizabeth Gilbert (nee Campbell) wife of James Gilbert (not Archibald as stated)
Archibald Gilbert (back row, far left) & others
Archibald Gilbert, ironmonger, Castle (later Hyslops)
George Gilbert & Margaret Templeton (gaughter of Gilbert Templeton, Merkland)
Home of George & Alexanderina Gilbert & family9 Afton Crescent (now 23 Afton Road)
George Gilbert (George’s father)
Liz Gilbert & Gibson family

George’s father in India

Motorised column going from Rawalpindi to Khyber Pass
George’s father wearing his pith helmer
His father teaching Indians to drive.

Family | Kerr

Written on back of first photo is motorised column in convoy from Rawalpindi to Khyber Pass, father driving one of vehicles . Bet they burnt out a few clutches on these. I would imagine a lot of double declutching as they climbed the pass. Second is father in pith helmet on train somewhere. He was lucky to be posted to India instead of trenches in France. Last one is father teaching Indians to drive. He told me they drove with bare feet which allowed him to rap them across the toes with his swagger stick if they pressed wrong pedal

George Kerr & Mary McKenzie(George’s great grandparents)
George & Mary Kerr and children – Mary, Robert, Agnes & Jane
George Kerr (George’s great granfather)
Mary Kerr (nee McKenzie) obituary, d. 3rd Sep 1908
Mary Kerr, Bridgend Inn
Jane Kerr
Jean Kerr (Nan’s mother) – at the back of Bridgend Inn, by local photographer Dan Park
Nan Kerr, ATS, WW2 (daughter of Jane)
Nan Kerr on leave at Bridgedn
Nan Kerr and friend
Agnes Kerr (great Auntie Nannie), wife of William Lind
Polly Kerr (daughter of Agnes Kerr)
Obituary Polly Kerr
An Acrostic Polly Kerr In Memoriam on the death of this young woman
William Lind (Jean Lind’s father) & sibling
Jean Lind (daughter of William Lind and Agnes Kerr) and husband Willie Clark (Clarkie)

Friends & Acquaintances

Sanny Gibson from shop in Castle with his family. I think his wife was Susan Campbell and children Peg and Flora .
James Tweedie of Tweedie’s Garage and son Harold, posted missing in WW2
Tweedie’s Garage
Wull Gallacher, Bridgend

Social Events

George Gilbert at a Licence Trade Outing
Social Event (George Gilbert, middle row 4th from left
New Cumnock Wedding party (Lind family)
Burns Monument Tea Garden, Alloway. George Gilbert, vocalist, front row 2nd from left
New Cumnock Silver Band – South of Scotland Brass Band Association , South of Scotland Champions, Dumfries 1950
Cyclists
1920s Old Vauxhall
1920s Car outing
1920s Flappers outing

Sporting Events

New Cumnock Bowling Club, George Gilbert, 2nd from left)
New Cumnock Bowling Club – George Gilber middle back row
New Cumnock Bowling Green
New Cumnock Curling Rink playing at Ayr Ice rink, George Gilbert bending over
Archibald Campbell a member of the famous New Cumnock Eglinton Jug treble winners
British Legion Football Team 1938

Schools

Bank School class 1920s
Bank School class 1920s
1920s “I think my mother in back row beside Bert Watson and Alan Davidson perhaps. Front row left definitely Annie McHallam and Miss Mackinnnon both infant mistresses.”
Picture was produced at our reunion and we were able to identify all apart from tall girl in second row and the immediate boys on either side of her especially the one with flowing lock
Town School teachers gathering at George’s home
Town School teachers gathering at George’s home
Possible school trip to West Linton
New Cumnock J.S. (George far right, back row)