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Maidment Morrison family, Wester Livilands and Stirling Savings Bank

27/5/2012

 
We have had an enquiry on this topic on behalf of Mr James Groove, who lives in Australia.

Mr Groove’s grandfather (Major James Maidment Morrison) had moved to Australia; the Major’s sister, Elizabeth Jane Maidment Morrison died in Scotland in 1952. Their father, was Mr James Maidment Morrison and records in Mr Groove’s possession suggested that he was a banker and associated with somewhere called Livelands, near Stirling.

Jamieson and Munro’s Street Directory for 1868-1869 showed that James Morrison, banker and Ebenezer Morrison (writer – ie solicitor) were both living at Wester Livilands. This house had been built in the 17th century. Early owners were Commissary Robert Murray and his wife Cristian Cowan. They had commissioned the famous Livilands Sibyls (which are most authoritatively described by Michael Bath in his  2003 volume Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland.  These had been presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland when the old Wester Livilands was demolished. A quick check revealed that they had been drawn to the society’s attention by a Mr Maidment (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_033/33_387_413.pdf ). They are now in the National Museum of Scotland where they are displayed as a particularly good example of this sort of seventeenth century decoration. It was Commissary Murray, incidentally, who gave the speech of welcome to James VI on his return visit to Stirling in 1617 –and a very fulsome job he made of it to judge by the text printed by John Nichols in his The Progresses, Processions and Magnificent Festivities of [King James VI and I], volume 3 p. 348-351)

The National Security Savings Bank of Stirling had opened 7th May 1842 in the premises of the Commercial Bank with Mr James Maidment Morrison as treasurer. It was a savings bank for people who would not, otherwise, have sufficient funds to open a conventional bank account. There is a brief history in the Stirling Journal for 30 Jan 1936 when it moved to new premises in Station Road (which many people will recall as the TSB). It was eventually absorbed into the Trustee Savings Bank and so taken over by Lloyds who hold such archives as survive. I recall the old TSB having lots of plaques and commemorative photos in its 1930s interior and wonder if there is any record of them; they certainly included memorials to former employees who had died on active service.

It anyone knows more about the family or about the bank then Mr Groove, who hopes to visit Stirling in the next year or so, would be pleased to hear from them either by commenting on this page or via Enquire@Stirling-lhs.org.


Scots Fiddle Music

2/5/2012

 
Another new website which brings aspects of Scots culture to your screen and is bound to have local material:
http://www.scottishmusicindex.org

The Scottish Music Index

"The Index contains a Bibliography of over 200 volumes of Scottish instrumental music - mostly dance music but with many beautiful slow airs - published between 1700 and 1922 and an A-Z list of the tune titles in them (over 12000). The song books (with words) of central Scotland are not included, with one or two exceptions, like James Johnson's ever-popular "Scots Musical Museum" (1771) many of the songs airs in which are closely linked with dance; London-printed dance manuals are selected on the scale of their Scottish content; the Gaelic song repertoire and the military pipe manuals are fully listed online elsewhere. The Index features Source Codes (where the tune can be found), Key and Time Signatures and a Theme Code listing for cross-referencing entries...
..
Membership of the Scottish Music Index costs £10.00 and lasts for 24 months."
http://www.scottishmusicindex.org

Buried Treasure on 24th May

1/5/2012

 
On 24th May at 7pm at the new Raploch Community Campus Drs Fraser Hunter and Richard Tipping will describe the Blairdrummond horde of Iron Age gold and its environmental context.
All are welcome and the event is free. It is sponsored by Forth Naturalist and History, well-known for many years for the journal and for the annual symposium but now expanding and relaunching as a membership body.
There will be a short AGM to launch the group's new stage but the illustrated talks will be a real highlight. This find must interest lots of local people - whether they have yet had a chance to see the gold itself in the National Museums in Edinburgh.
So, come along for a free evening out- meet others who are interested in similar things and find out how modern science can unravel ancient mysteries!


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