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- «b»William Hannah's«/b» birth record states:
"«i»1822 Feb 23 John Lundie teacher and Janet Mills in Maule Street had a son; baptised, named William Hannay"«b»«/i»
«/b»Although the birth record spells his name with a "y" at the end, all his signatures show that he himself spelt it with an "h" so I conclude that the scribe made an error in the birth record.
The only entry I can find in the «b»1841 Scottish Census«/b» is for a William Lundie living in Arborath, Angus, aged 20 with the occupation of "Canvas H L W". (Canvas Hand Loom Weaver). This seems unlikely to be our William, as he later became a teacher he would probably have been training as a teacher during this time.
William Hannah Lunide married Mary Tasker on a cold Sunday, the 9th Feb «b»1849«/b» in Coupar Angus. The record lists John as a teacher.
«b»In 1851 the Scottish census«/b» gives his whereabouts as the High Street, Coupar Angus in Perthshire (where his wife was born) and his occupation as "English Teacher". Their eldest child, John is living with them. Interestingly his wife is listed as Mary Lasker - [most likely a transcription error and should be Tasker], but of interest, as her maiden name is the one used.
It is possible that his son, Marshall, was named after the minister at Coupar Angus, William Marshall.
The «b»1861 Scottish Census«/b» records the family living in Auchterarder, (no address specified) and William's occupation as simply "teacher".
According to the 1861 Census the family had increased with the addition of "Jane" [John] Lundie (11), Helen Lundie, (9) William Lundie (8), James Lundie (6), Marshall Lundie (4), Catharine Lundie (1).
«b»Two transcription errors «/b»have lead to much confusion:
Firstly in the 1841 Census, John Lundie's birth is recorded as 7 years when it should have been 1 year. His birth record confirms his birth/baptism as 10 Dec 1849.
Secondly in the 1861 Census his name is transcribed as "Jane" not "John".
These errors also lead to the false idea that William Hannah and Mary Tasker had had children when very young indeed, and that they had a child named "Jane".
William Hannah Lundie became head of the «b»Sheddan Trust School«/b» in Auchterarder but I have no date for this.
The following information has been supplied by the Librarian at the Public Library in Auchterarder:
«i»One book* we have does state that Sheddan's School, later called Lundies' School, was held in the old Unionist rooms. It was established in 1811 by John Sheddan of Lochie and he endowed it with £1000, the interest of which paid a schoolmaster to teach, free, 12 poor children. According to this book the new Auchterarder Public School opened in 1875/6 by which time Sheddan's had closed.
«/i»*'«u»Auchterarder in Old Picture Postcards«/u», vols 1&2', by Joan MacIntosh
The above information is interesting for the both the 1871 and the 1881 Census records show William Hannah still living in Auchterarder, and both list him as a teacher [if you ignore the transcription error that called him a "Leacher"!]
In «b»1871 the Census«/b» shows 49 yr old William Hannah living on the Main Street**, Auchterarder, with Mary (46), his wife, and children: Helen Lundie (19) James Lundie (18) William Lundie (16) Marshall Lundie (14) Catharine P Lundie (11) Andrew Lundie (9) Jessie Lundie (7) Alexander B Lundie (4). By this stage John, the eldest, was a student "of the Arts" in Edinburgh.
**"«i»The Royal Burgh of Auchterarder is a situated with the Ochil Hills and Gleneagles to the south and Strathearn to the north. The town is laid out with a long main street giving it the nickname of the Lang Toon."
Perthshire-Scotland.co.uk © 2006
http://www.perthshire-scotland.co.uk/auchterarder2.htm
Reading this it seems that almost everyone's address would be "Main Street, Auchterarder"!
T«u»«b»he 1872 Education (Scotland) Act«/u»«/b»
This act marked a watershed in Scottish education and had an immediate effect on teacher training.
For the first time elementary education was made compulsory for all children aged between 5 and 13. The existing parish and burgh schools were taken over by the state and managed by locally elected School Boards.
The new system was co-ordinated nationally by the Scotch Education Department with the curriculum emphasising the teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic (the three 'Rs'). The churches made a crucial contribution to the new system by handing over their schools without charge to the School Boards. At this time the Free Church supported 548 schools across Scotland together with 584 teachers.
Source:https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/about-us/maps-estates-history/history/part-four
«/i»In «b»1881 the Scotland Census«/b» shows William Hannah (59) Lundie still on Main street, Auchterarder, with Mary (55) his wife and children: James Lundie (28) who was or had trained in theology, Jessie Lundie (17) Alexander Brock Lundie (14).
In the intervening years, son John Lundie and wife Rebecca had become missionaries in South Africa; daughter Helen had married Rev Thomas Shearer (1873). In 1874 they went to Glenthorn Mission (est 1840) near Adelaide in South Africa; William [Tasker] Lundie was a "student of the Arts" at Edinburgh University. He became a doctor (25); Marshall was probably training in theology (I haven't found his census record yet); Catharine P Lundie- not sure where she was, and Andrew [Dasher/Tasker] had died of Tabes mesenterica, which is described as "a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration."i.e. a form of tuberculosis.
In «b»1884«/b», the same year that his son Rev James Lundie died in Huelva, Spain, his youngest son, Alexander Brock Lundie(17) left for the United States of America.
The following Marriage notice was published in the Glasgow Herald (Glasgow Scotland) Friday August 19, «b»1887«/b»; Issue 198:
«i»Marriages:
Begg-Lundie. At Auchterarder in the 17th inst by the Rev Mr M...[illegible] North UP Church assisted by the Rev John Lundie, MA, Malan Mission, Kaffraria, brother of the bride, Henry Begg, Glasgow to Catherine Pringle, second daughter of Mr William H. Lundie, teacher.«/i»
The following has been supplied by the Archivest at the Perth & Kinross Council Archive:
The [Sheddan Trust] School closed in January «b»1889«/b» as a result of changes in legislation. It was decided to give Mr. Lundie the liferent use of the schoolmaster's house and garden, but in 1890 the Scotch Education Department ruled this illegal and incompetent and he was subsequently put out of the house. On 9 June the governing body asked its treasurer to write to the Scotch Education Department to explain that:
«i» "…the reasons which actuated them to make the arrangement with Mr. Lundie were his long and faithful services for 35 years as a teacher that these services were brought to an end without any fault on his part by the operation of "the Educational Endowment (Scotland) Act 1882" whereby he was turned adrift in his old age without any provision except the small pension of £25 which had been granted to him by the Scotch Education Department..."«/i»
The pleas of the governing body made no difference and he had to leave the house.
The stipulation about the 12 free pupils was a part of the endowment, but the full roll of pupils stood much higher. In the Auchterarder School Board minutes of 1888 it mentions that there were 115 pupils on the roll and an average attendance of 80. William had one pupil teacher: this was the norm at the time.
Note: the dates of the closure of the school differ from the two sources: «u»Auchterarder in Old Picture Postcards;«/u» and
Sheddan Trust School Endowment, Auchterarder. Governing body. «u»Draft minute book«/u», 1888-1915.
William's son, James died at Huelva, in Spain, possibly of tuberculosis in «b»1890«/b».
«b»1891«/b» found William Hannah at 3 Glengyle Terrace, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, in the home of his son William [Tasker] Lundie. The Census now lists William H as a "retired school teacher". Daughter, Helen and her husband Rev Thomas Shearer were back from South Africa (on furlough?), and they and all five of their children were also at William Tasker's house.
Catherine Pringle, William Hannah's daughter, had married Henry Begg, an Australian-born insurance clerk, in 1887, and she is listed as housekeeper for her brother and this horde of people. Henry Begg had died of a pulmonary thrombosis the previous year, after only 3 years of marriage.
Daughter Jessie is also part of the family group at her brother's home. Curiously she married someone called Henry Begg Grey in 1891. Could the husbands of the two sisters have been related?
They went to live in New Zealand in 1901, where several of their descendants went on to become missionaries in India and the South Pacific
The household in Edinburgh had one servant, in 1891, 17 year old Mary R Rop.
The Estate papers information on ScotlandsPeople says:
«i»"Lundie, William Hannah 03/05/1900Teacher, sometime of Auchterarder, thereafter at 3 Glengyle Terrace, Edinburgh, afterwards at Lochwinnoch, d. 21/01/1900 at Lochwinnoch, testate inventory only Paisley Sheriff CourtSC58/42/60VIEW (£5.00) (1 pages)"
«/i»William Hannah died in the United Presbyterian Manse in Lochwinnoch. The death certificate was signed by his son-in-law, Henry Begg Gray and the cause of death given as senile decay over a period of 6 months. William Hannah was buried in Lochwinnoch Cemetery, Linthills Road, Lochwinnoch on the 24th Jan 1900, aged 78 years, "in a lair on his own".
Of interests is that his father (John Lundie)'s occupation was given as "teacher" but on the death certificate of his brother James, it was given as "weaver". Also of interest is that his mother's name was given as "Jessie Mills" not "Janet Mills".
From this we can see that William Hannah and MaryTasker went to live at «i»Lochwinnoch«/i» with their daughter Jessie, who had married Henry Begg Gray, the Untied Presbyterian minister there, and, who had by that time 3 small children.
«u»Four of William Hannah Lundie's nine children died before he did: «/u»
The first to die was young Andrew Dasher after, what sounds like a very painful, protracted disease, at the age of only fifteen, in 1876.
The next death occurred 8 years later when his son Marshall Lundie, a minister, died at the age of 27, in Calanas, Spain. I have been unable to determine what he was doing in Spain or how he died, but it now seems likely that he had gone there to cure tuberculosis*. He does not appear to have left a will, or nor to have had a family of his own.
James Lundie who was four years older than Marshall, a minister as well, unmarried, also died in Spain, also likely of tuberculosis*. The year was 1890 (a very bad year for William) and the place Huelva. James did leave a will, but there is no indication of the cause of death or what he was doing in Spain, either.
The fourth death must have been an even greater shock when his promising and popular son, William Tasker, a doctor, suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 43 leaving a wife and three little girls all under the age of 3 in January 1899. A year later William died.
*Source: Thompson, A.O. Notes. [nd]
«u»Other information:«/u»
«b»William Hannah Lundie «/b»(1822-?) the fourth son of John, was a teacher in Coupar (Angus) and Auchterarder, married Mary Tasker and had 8 [surviving to adulthood] children. He was a tutor to Lord Haldane (Minister of War 1914) and his brother Professor Haldane of Oxford University.
Source: «u»Notes on the Lundie & Auld Families«/u»
I have, to date, not been able to substantiate the claim that William Hannah was tutor to Lord Haldane and his brother. VvZ Feb, 2008.
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