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This biography was partly auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and partly by Charles' nephew Alan Runciman.
After moving to Bristol Charles & Isabel lived at 18 Bartlett's Road BEDMINSTER Bristol.
I can provide very few facts but what little I know may be worth providing for the benefit of someone in the future. Charles & Isabel didn't have family of their own and they took the decision to foster. I think it would be in the late 1950s they fostered a girl. The girl's name was Vinnie and if I recall correctly she would have been around 9 at the time she came to live with her new foster family. Charles & Isabel brought Vinnie to Glasgow to meet Charles' family at my parents' home. I have no clear recollection of when the arrangement came to an end but it continued for, I think, at least a couple of years and could have been longer. I have a handful of photographs featuring Vinnie, some including the family dog at that time too. It would be wonderful to reunite Vinnie to her photographs and of course to meet her again.
Charles was a Master Baker. He & his wife moved to the city Bristol, England, in the 1950s when the Tesco supermarket chain decided to introduce one of its first (perhaps the first?) in-store bakeries, at its Bristol store. Charles represented a ground-breaking move by Tesco in that he was the first master baker in the whole country to be employed by them (first-hand family information). He remained with Tesco for the rest of his working life.
President of the Bristol branch of the National Association of Master Bakers. |
Imported only JUL 1974 from Death Date and marked as uncertain.
Although Charles lived in Bristol for almost all his married life he is buried in the same cemetery as his parents, Newton Mearns Cemetery in Scotland. This is also the cemetery where his younger brother Alan was buried some 6 years previously.
Charles' gravestone (Isabelle is commemorated but not buried here. |
Prior to import, this record was last changed 28 AUG 2013 .
John Potter, a Scottish Covenanter captured after the Battle of Airdsmoss & hanged at the Mercat Cross, Edinburgh in 1680.
William Runciman of Crail, who drowned with 7 other fishermen in the Crail Fishing Disaster, 1765.
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Crail Fishing Disaster History and Latest News
Charles is a descendant of William of Crail who drowned with 7 others in the 1765 Crail Fishing Disaster. A 250th anniversary commemoration for the drownings was held in Crail on 16 May 2015.
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