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June 18 2005 (Isla Clark and James Robertson) Isla Mary Clark Robertson (Montgrew Farm, Keith, Banffshire, 1 September 1940, her name comes from the river Isla in the North East, not the place). She has an older brother, Ian, and two older sisters, Audrey and Josephine-Jessy, a younger sister, Wilma Mackay, and younger brother, Alastair. Her father was William Clark (Fortry Farm, Grange, Banffshire, May 12, 1912). He came from a family of six: James, George, John, Alexander, Elizabeth, and…

Ian Simpson Ross (9 August 1930, Dundee). He remembers growing up in the Depression and watching unemployed men line up outside the "burro" – the bureau – to get their dole money. He went to Blackness Primary, Dundee. He then received a bursary to go to Harris Academy, Dundee, he started out doing technical subjects, but was encouraged to take Latin in his third year. He didn't pass his Higher Latin, however. He remembers being very active in Sports at school – rugby, football, golf, cricket…