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P0227 · Persoon · 1858 – 1931

Sir Edwin Bolton, 1st Bt. married Elinor Elisabeth Graham, daughter of Sir John Hatt Noble Graham, 1st Bt. and Jane Browne Adam, on 12 April 1888. He died on 7 October 1931. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) He was appointed Member, Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) He gained the title of 1st Baronet Bolton.

P0233 · Persoon · 1940 - 1970

Harold Gordon Lord was a resident of Bandeath Lodge in Throsk, Stirling. He deposited papers relating to Bandeath Royal Naval Depot with Stirling Council Archives.

P0265 · Persoon · 1830 - 1890

Captain David Steuart of Steuarthall was born on 19 Mar 1830 and was a member of the Steuart of Steuarthall family, based in St. Ninians, Stirling. Steuart was a captain of H. M. 34th Regiment and married Dorothy Emily Cox on 16 Apr 1827. He died on 16 Dec 1890 aged 60 and was buried in St. Ninians new churchyard cemetery.

P0220 · Persoon · 1799 - 1877

Peter Drummond (26 Feb 1799 - 09 Jul 1877) of the Drummond family, Stirling seed merchants and agricultural improvers in the 19th century, established the Stirling Tract Enterprise in 1848 in order to publish religious tracts. Drummond was born at Coney Park in Cambusbarron, Stirling. He was the eldest son of the second marriage of William Drummond, who had established a seed business in the Bannockburn area around 1760, and one of 15 children in total. When his father died in 1824, Drummond and his brother William, the eldest brother from William Drummond's first marriage, took over the land-surveyor and nurseryman business left to them by their late father and became the caretakers of the younger members of the family.

Shortly after taking over his late father's business, Drummond removed the seed department of the business from Coney park to the ground-floor of the Athenaeum Buildings on King Street. He also opened an agricultural museum in 1831, which exhibited the latest technologies in ploughing and harvesting as well as rare seeds, bulbs, and roots.

Drummond was involved with religion from a very early age and even taught at the local Sunday School. Following the Great Revival in 1839, the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 and other religious events, he thrust himself further into religion and became a member of the Free Church and later became an elder of the Free North Church in Stirling, now known as St Columba's, and a lay preacher. In 1848, Drummond joined in the local condemnation of Sabbath desecrating in the nearby village of Cambuskenneth, Stirling and published a tract which he distributed at in the area and the Stirling races. He continued his involvement with tract publishing until he decided to dedicate himself to publishing full-time in 1852. Drummond continued his work in the Stirling Tract Enterprise for many years, the company had to move into larger premises a number of times as it continued to grow; the Enterprise had distributed over 60 million tracts by 1872 and had moved into publishing books and magazines as well. However, not everybody in the Stirling area had a very high opinion of Peter Drummond and, in 1863, he was accused of fraud. In order to counter these allegations, he set up the Drummond Trust in 1863 to run the Tract Enterprise.

In 1872, Drummond retired from active business and moved to Edinburgh, he died shortly after in 1877 due to failing health at the age of 78. The trustees of the Stirling Tract Enterprise kept the company in operation until nearly 100 years after Drummond's death in 1980 after a steady decline in business during the 20th century.

P0226 · Persoon · 1899 - 1982

Sir Ian Frederick Cheney Bolton, 2nd Baronet, of West Plean, was born in 1889 and educated at Eton. He succeeded his father, Sir Edwin Bolton, in 1931. During the First World War he served in the 3rd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was trained as a chartered accountant and became president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1955. He was also a member of the British Transport Commission from 1947 to 1959 and Lord Lieutenant of Stirling from 1949. He had a keen interest in the scouting movement and was Chief Commissioner of Scotland. Bolton was made OBE in 1946 and KBE in 1957, and died in 1982.

P0260 · Persoon · fl 1950 - 1999

William (Willie) Jenkins, who was living in Bannockburn in 2001, was interested in the local history of Stirling and surrounding area. He gave a collection of photographs and other items to Stirling Council Archives. He had works published on bowling in Clackmannanshire (1994) and on St Ninians (1999).

P0262 · Persoon · 1913 - 2003

Born in Port Arthur, Canada, Mary MacKenzie Nixon (1913 - 2003) was was brought to Scotland by her parents when she was little more than an infant. After a few years in rural Stirlingshire, the family settled in Albert Place, Stirling, which is at the foot of the Castle Rock. She attended the High School of Stirling, where she received the Gavin Medal for English and went on to read English and history at St Andrews University, where she graduated with honours in 1934. Nixon received her teaching qualification and taught at various schools across rural Stirlingshire.

It was while teaching at Riverside School in Stirling, before the outbreak of the Second World War that she decided to join the Girl Guides Association as a leader. By 1961, she was ranger adviser for Scotland, in 1968, she became training adviser, and in 1977, she was appointed deputy Scottish chief commissioner. She received the OBE for services to Guiding in 1980. Mary Mackenzie Nixon had a keen interest in genealogy and undertook substantial research into her family history and its connection with Ireland and with Kilkenny in particular. She deposited some of her papers with Stirling Council Archives.

She continued to live in Bannockburn,her home for 50 years and was buried in Snowdon Cemetery at the foot of Stirling's Castle Wall after her death in 2003.

P0266 · Persoon · 1833 - 1910

Dorothy Emily Cox Steuart was born on 15 Oct 1833 in Fairsted, Essex and married David Steuart of Steuarthall on 16 Apr 1827. She died on 18 Feb 1910 aged 76 and was buried in St Ninians new churchyard cemetery.