tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789993312111567100.post253296129181764947..comments2024-03-14T08:44:54.646+00:00Comments on a'spaidsearachd agus a'meòrachadh: Sir John Brown of Redhall, Fordoun (1856-1928)direcleithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02004025854623265304noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789993312111567100.post-9517880470637836962018-02-20T11:06:06.529+00:002018-02-20T11:06:06.529+00:00Fascinating as Sir John Brown was my great-grandf...Fascinating as Sir John Brown was my great-grandfather. His daughter Lily (known as Dolly to her birth family and later as Mop) married Alexander Gibb who was a granite merchant. He worked for the family firm, Robert Gibb & Sons in Aberdeen. They had one son who also had a 'Brown' in his name - Alexander John Brown Gibb. He became a GP and moved to Derbyshire after serving as a medical officer in the RAF. This was six weeks after I was born. He got his own practice in Barkingside, Essex in 1958 and the family moved to Chigwell in Essex. My grandmother, Lily/Dolly/Mop came to live with us after my grandfather died in 1958. I discovered recently that the house that my grandparents built in 1939 in Springfield Road, Aberdeen (in granite, obviously) was demolished in 2014 to make way for a Macarthy & Stone retirement development. The house was sold in 1959, but I remember it well and was rather sorry to hear of its demise.Alex6051https://www.blogger.com/profile/06846793222575615930noreply@blogger.com