The Three Brothers and Other Relations By Sandra Cairncross May 2012 Preface This account arose out of a(n extended) letter which I wrote for my father on the occasion of his 75th birthday in March 2012. I had it printed and bound and presented it to him as a keepsake of our shared Cairncross history. Growing up, I became aware of some famous namesakes – the economist, Sir Alex Kirkland Cairncross, and his daughter, Frances, also an economist, John Cairncross the spy, Cairncross the jewellers in Perth, and, from America, William O. Cairncross, the TV producer: exciting and somewhat exotic, but also unconnected from my branch. From time to time I increased my awareness of the general Cairncross history, treasuring a photocopy of Cairncross, by G.T.R . Cairncross, which my father gave me along with the History of a Forfarshire Family by AF Cairncross. This interest re-awoke a few years later, with the launch, by Ian Cairncross of The Cairncross Family Website, hosting many family trees from many different Cairncrosses. I found mine and saw I was descended from a Robert Cairncross born in 1792 who married a Margaret Ogilvie in 1819. Where did they come from? What did they do? I knew from the current family tree was that Robert died of apoplexy in Dundee in 1859, aged 67. Robert and Margaret had three sons – the three brothers referred to by Anne King. One was another Robert Cairncross, my or Robert the Dockgate Man, as I came to call him. Another was
The Three Brothers and Other Relations By Sandra Cairncross May 2012 Preface This account arose out of a(n extended) letter which I wrote for my father on the occasion of his 75th birthday in March 2012. I had it printed and bound and presented it to him as a keepsake of our shared Cairncross history. Growing up, I became aware of some famous namesakes – the economist, Sir Alex Kirkland Cairncross, and his daughter, Frances, also an economist, John Cairncross the spy, Cairncross the jewellers in Perth, and, from America, William O. Cairncross, the TV producer: exciting and somewhat exotic, but also unconnected from my branch. From time to time I increased my awareness of the general Cairncross history, treasuring a photocopy of Cairncross, by G.T.R . Cairncross, which my father gave me along with the History of a Forfarshire Family by AF Cairncross. This interest re-awoke a few years later, with the launch, by Ian Cairncross of The Cairncross Family Website, hosting many family trees from many different Cairncrosses. I found mine and saw I was descended from a Robert Cairncross born in 1792 who married a Margaret Ogilvie in 1819. Where did they come from? What did they do? I knew from the current family tree was that Robert died of apoplexy in Dundee in 1859, aged 67. Robert and Margaret had three sons – the three brothers referred to by Anne King. One was another Robert Cairncross, my or Robert the Dockgate Man, as I came to call him. Another was
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