Scarborough historical notes and comments
Scarborough Historical Society1983
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Scarborough, Ontario : Scarborough Historical Society, September 1983.
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17 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
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Booklet.Page 14 of these Historical Society notes begins an entry entitled “The Purdies of the Fieldstone House” by D. Bruce McCowan. It relates the story of the Purdie family from a monumental inscription in the St. Andrews Churchyard, Scarborough, Ontario. The inscription reads: “In memory of ROBERT RAE and his wife AGNES HAMILTON RAE, natives of Lesmahagow, Scotland who came to Scarboro in 1832. Three weeks after their arrival in his 29th year he was killed by a falling tree, his wife survived him 46 years dying in 1878 in her 86th year.”
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ULM929.2 PURD929.2 PURD
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English
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2364628
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