William McCaw

GEDCOM Note

Informant on mother's death certificate.

Notes from McCaw Book-My first school was at Glenmanna, at a shepherds house, who kept a teacher during winter for his own family and others convenient who could attend. Here I spent 2 or 3 winters and was lodged with my maternal grandfather, one of the finest of old men I have aver known. I never attended the Tynron Parish School, then taught by Robert Newall.
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8 Grandsons died in WWI
William Armstrong McCaw died at Passchendaele 12 Oct 1917 and his brother
Douglas Victor McCaw died 18 Oct 1918 in Palestine
William McCaw died 15 Sep 1916 at the Somme and his brother
John Thomas McCaw died of wounds at sea on 21 Dec 1917 on the way back to NZ from France
Peter Rankin McCaw died 22 Feb 1918 at Etaples, France and his brother
Robert Duncan McCaw died 14 Feb 1918 of spanish flu at Featherston Camp
William Robert Currie died 10 Oct 1918 at Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France
William McCaw Brown died 28 Sep 1917 in Belgium
all in all, 8 grandsons of William McCaw & Isabella Todd. A great sacrifice from one family. They will be remembered.