Lamb Pictures
With many thanks to, in chronological order: Joan, Carolyne, Linda and Sheila; Berta, Rosie, Lena and Frances; and Alison for looking out some terrific old pictures.
James Lamb & Catherine Watson
my great grandparents and their seventeen children
This is the earliest photograph that we have of
James Spence Lamb. He is the man with the moustache standing in the middle.
This was taken during the building of the Drill Hall in Kirk Street, Peterhead
(which can be seen at a much later date in the next picture) in 1880.
These two photographs are again JSL, and a group of stone masons.
In the first he is 3rd from the right standing and in the second he is 4th from the left standing.
Catherine Christie Watson
Mother to this huge family of 17 children
James & Catherine's children
The next set of photographs shows various groups. The first two are of my grandfather and 13 of his brothers and sisters.
The first shows him with 6 of his 9 brothers. From left to right they are
Frank, Fred, William, James, Eddie, Andrew and Alex.
The second shows all seven sisters and, left to right, they are,
Maggie, Cissie, Mary, Kate, Jessie, Lizzy and Lena.
I think that the third may have been taken on the death/funeral of Christian in 1925. The last two show different moods of Magdalena and Jessie.
Fred Lamb - my grandfather
Fred's message suggests that this 1919 football team played in England, but we don't know.
This is HMS Akbar in Invergordon harbour in 1919,
which is the address that Fred gave for his marriage licence that year.
Family
The first family group here was taken at Forteviot in 1927 and shows Fred & Garland with their 3 girls - Dot (Charlotte), Cath (Catherine) and Girlie (Joan). Below that Garland is with Dot & Girlie in 1925 and then Fred's sister Sis (Christian). The last two show the whole family with baby Jimmy, plus the lodger, in 1930.
Fred & Girlie are at Dupplin Pond and the whole family are at their home on Cairnie Brae above the little village of Forteviot where the girls went to school.
1936 Peterhead Holiday
In 1936 Fred and Garland took the family on holiday to visit some of the very many relatives in Peterhead. In the first picture where they have been swimming you can see Garland, Maggie and Jessie with the children. Cath is second from the left, Joan is front right and Jimmy is standing holding his mum's hand.
The second picture is of eleven cousins at the dunes but the only person we're sure of is Cath, the tallest at the back.
The photograph of the trip on the Summers' family boat the Andrena shows, from left to right:
Cath, Chris Summers, Dot, then probably Garland hiding at the back, Billy Summers,
Fred holding Jimmy, Maggie holding a small child, Jessie, Girlie and the skipper.
James Spence Lamb - my great grandfather
These pictures were taken in the 1940's when JSL would have been in his mid to late-seventies.
Being a stone mason to trade, he had been able to make a beautiful family gravestone, to which his name was eventually added.
Erected By
JAMES AND CATHERINE LAMB
IN MEMORY OF THEIR CHILDREN
GEORGE SPENCE DIED 1897 AGED 5 MONTHS
JOHN GEORGE DIED 1909 AGED 8 MONTHS
FRANK LAMB FIFTH SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED 22ND MAY 1913 AGED 22 YEARS
CATHERINE WATSON THE ABOVE
DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF JAMES LAMB
WHO DIED 4TH FEB 1916 AGED 56 YEARS
MAGDALENA LAMB (LENA)
SIXTH DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
DIED 24TH DEC 1938 AGED 33 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE JAMES LAMB
DIED 10TH NOV 1947 AGED 83 YEARS
Weddings
The first photograph is another one of three Lamb sisters and this one was taken at Cath's wedding to Sandy Morrison in 1942.
She was given away by her father but the only picture we have is of the
couple with the bridesmaids - Dot is on her right and Joan on her left.
Alongside that is Dot and George Proudfoot in 1947;
Joan and Harry Ruthven also in 1947;
and Jimmy and Jean Thom in the early 1950s.
Sadly, in 1943 Fred left his family to go and live in Greenock with another woman
and here is a chance photograph, taken by one of the street photographers that
were around in the 40s and early 50s, showing the couple 'stepping out'.
Garland Gold was devastated but she did have some happy times,
and this important picture from 1946 shows her with the only grandchild she ever saw, Linda,
standing outside the family house in Victoria Street, Perth.
Garland would not agree to a divorce but three weeks after she died in 1947
Fred was able to marry Sheila and here are two photographs that we're surprised,
but delighted, to have.
They show him in later life: firstly enjoying a family picnic with Sheila and their two daughters in about 1955;
then a super individual shot that shows he must have been quite a character.
It also shows a resemblance to his father's pictures above.
In the 1950s on many Sundays when the weather was good,
Cath, Joan, their husbands and children would all pile into the one car and go off for a picnic,
and in this photograph taken by Sandy you can see the family group sitting in the boot of Harry's car.
1957 Peterhead Holiday
Here are three photos from a holiday that Cath took with her family when they in turn visited relatives in Peterhead in 1957.
