Chatting to mum today she told me about Robert Nicoll senior
We know that Edwina ,Victoria, and my, grandfather and mum's dad was Robert Nicoll but his father had the same name!
The photo above was taken in New York !
Our great grandfather as a young man had been offered a job there as an engineer and was inclined to take it but his girlfriend refused to go wanting to stay near her mother
Robert therefore came home and when Bella's (Isabella's) mum died leaving a small drapers shop in Dundee, Robert and his then wife Bella ran it for many years.In fact mum remembers visiting it as a girl.
The couple had many years of happy married life together and had a large family of whom Robert Nicoll was one as were Meg and May. Robert Nicoll senior was well over 95 when he died,I think on 11th April 1958. Bella predeceased Robert,dying I think aged 85 in 1950. That means that the photos of a young Robert and Bella would have been taken in roughly the 1880's!
Here is a picture of them in later life looking very contented.
Below is a picture of their grave in Dundee. Also mentioned on the grave is a Margaret Gilmour who is a great great grandmother and from whom mum got her middle names. The grave is in a large cemetery in Dundee.
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