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August 20 2004 Alma Stark Lee. Born: (Edinburgh, May 1940). She has two brothers: Graeme/Graham (Edinburgh, married with children and grandchildren, was an accountant and then a teacher of business admin at Napier College, Edinburgh), Gordon (just outside Aberdeen, married with children and grandchildren, sold pharmaceutical drugs) Father: Alan Graeme/Graham Stark (Balerno, January 10 1900). 2 brothers, 3 sisters (only remembers 2 sisters: Nelly and Jean). His father, Neil Stark, worked for…

February 10 2012 Margaret (Peggy) Maryanne Askew (née Gillies, b. 1943 in Sidney, NS) is the only child of Donald John Jones Gillies (b. 1901 on St. Kilda) and Lillian Gilmore (b. 1911 in Turriff, Scotland). As the youngest of five boys, Peggy's father grew up on the island of St. Kilda, collecting eggs and birds on the island's cliffs, one of the many jobs necessary to stay alive. The soldiers stationed on the island during the First World War intrigued many of the young people with stories…

February 27 2005 Lucilla Bachop (b. October 22, 1946, Edinburgh) was adopted into a family of nine children. As the youngest, she had four older sisters and four older brothers. Her adopted father, James (b. 1891, Glasgow), had a shoe-making/repair shop on the High Street that his father had started. He was the second eldest in his family. Cilla vividly remembers her father's fabulous vocabulary and his love for football and cigarettes. Cilla's paternal adopted grandfather, James (b. Glasgow…

Frank Ward May 29 2012 Frank Hamden Ward, born in Toronto Aug 24, 1926. Fourth of five children. Siblings: Tommy (passed in 1924 at 5 years old), Jean Emma (born 1921, passed in 2002), Robert "Harry" Harrington (born 1922, passed in 2004), Mary (still living on a farm near Orangeville at time of interview). Father: Thomas John Ward, born in Nantwich, Cheshire, England in 1874. . Lived in Alderney in the Channel Islands until age 9, father John operated a store in Alderney. When the British…

Anne Vernon March 9 2011, June 29 2011 Born: Anne Leith Fraser, July 16, 1926 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Born at a home called Balgownie. One brother, William (Bill) Fraser. Very good at sports as a young boy, he was the only male descendant on the Fraser line, and was quite favoured as a result. During the War, the headmaster told their mother that he should be sent away, as they lived so close to the docks in Glasgow, "a magnet for young boys". He went to Keil Boarding School and did well…