Hello Everyone, I have a copy of an article that has in the margin a notation, which reads "from a newspaper in Scotland 1911. The only visible words that might offer a clue as to which paper this might have appeared in are Eccles, Swinton (?) and another word which could be seven letters in length but, at best, I'm giving that a good guess. I 'Googled' Eccles and then Swinton and they both appear to be parishes in Berwickshire. I couldn't get beyond this. Can anyone suggest which paper might have published this article? SCOTT and HOGG - YET ANOTHER LINK. A correspondent writes - In your reports of the deaths of the late Mrs Ingles, and another old Selkirk residenter it is indicated that by the death of these two the last link in my native district has been broken with Sir Walter Scott and Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. There are many of course still living who remember the latter. I have just received today a card announcing the death of an old gentleman, Mr. Walter Anderson, who died at Ayr, Ontario, Canada, on April 14th, in his 93rd year, after 65 years of married life, and leaving a widow. Mr Anderson was born in a cottage, since pulled down, between Tushielaw Inn and Ettrick Kirk. When a boy Sir Walter Scott was in the habit of frequenting his mother's house and jotting down many of the interesting facts which she possessed regarding the district. He had many opportunities of meeting not only with Sir Walter Scott as a boy, but with Hogg, whom he also knew, so that another link is broken. I have never seen this gentleman, as he emigrated in the year 1844* and has never returned to the old country, but his children and grandchildren have gone over the ground repeatedly, and taken home to Canada photographs of the district, which interested him very much, as well as his wife, who was born near Mosspaul, and whose acquaintance he made in the Dominion. The following may interest many of your readers, as showing the strides that emigration has made since 1844, when he and a number of others decided to emigrate to Canada. They sailed from Annan, an unlikely place, and the friends and neighbours in the district for six weeks previous lent all the necessary help in baking oatmeal cakes. The cart, which conveyed them and their belongings to Annan, also transported no less than six barrels of oatcakes, which was to keep them hale and healthy for the 50 days which the passage at that time took from port to port. *Please note, the Andersons left Ettrick in 1838 and according to a note that Walter, the subject of the above article, wrote to his grandchildren, they 'left Scotland 27th May 1838. Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the 7th June. Arrived in New York about 6 weeks after. Came into Canada about the end of July. Came to the farm in Blenheim 9th October. Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, Joan, ON, Canada