Helen Silver

Helen Silver who married Alexander Duncan. Helen Silver (1852 – 1915) married Alexander Duncan and moved to England where they are found on a farm at Byfleet in Surrey in 1891. Given they had children born in different counties, they moved several times between...

Alex Silver and Ellen Watt

By Warren Nunn When Alexander Silver and Helen (Ellen) Jane Watt married in March 1894, life changed drastically at Harvieston farm near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was a marriage forced on the 36-year-old Alex and 29-year-old Ellen by the fact she was...

Harvieston fire

Three articles about Harvieston Farm fire Dundee Courier 31 January 1902, PAGE 4. Destructive farm fire in the Mearns FOURTH WITHIN A FORTNIGHT DAMAGE, 2000 POUNDS A disastrous farm fire broke out on the farm at Harvieston, near Catterline, about six miles south of...