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| The Nuns at Blairs |
| Have you any information about the sisters - names*, anecdotes, historical, etc - which you could provide for inclusion on the site? Can you name the Bishops?** If so, please send us an email: |
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| We believe this was taken in the early to mid 1950s. Can you help us be more precise?* |
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| *We have received information that the sister 3rd from the right in the back row is Sr Assumpta, who recently died aged over 70. The sister 4th from the right in the same row is Sr Christina, who now lives in Wales. (With thanks to Anne Spring, who visited Blairs on a family holiday in 1954/55 and whose mother has the same photo.) |
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| **Thanks to Joe Duffy who suggests that 3rd from the right is Bishop Black of Paisley; 4th from the right Bishop Scanlan, then of Motherwell; and to Peter Baptie who confirms that 5th from the right is Archbishop (Cardinal) Gray. Thanks to Stuart McDonald who says that 2nd from the left looks like Bishop Hart of Dunkeld, 3rd from the left is Bishop Walsh of Aberdeen, and 4th from the left looks like Bishop Grant of Argyle and the Isles. |
| The Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy were brought to the college in 1906 by the rector, Mgr McGregor, who met the nuns at Aberdeen station wearing a tall silk hat. He then led them to the college in horse drawn carriages. There were 14 sisters, three of whom could speak only French. The salary was bed and board plus £10.00 per annum. In later times the boys were picked up and returned to the station by means of Strachan coaches. |
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