Do You Know These Scots?
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| Pte. Patrick Hennessy, in a photo taken at the camp in Beauly, Scotland, during World War Two. |
Patrick Hennessy spent five years in Beauly and he made many lasting frienships with the local Scottish people he met while stationed there with the Forestry Corps.
We are trying to locate the descendents of the many Scottish people whom he befriended and named in his letters to family back home in Canada.
Frasers, Munros, MacKays etc. are some of the family names that appear frequently in his correspondence.
Some of these people also took up the pen and wrote to Patrick's wife Beatrice, filling her in on all the details of life in Scotland and striking up a friendship with her in their own right. Letters came from Beauly, Aboyne, Ayr, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Here are the names, and in some cases, addresses of the people who Patrick and his wife Beatrice corresponded with in Scotland during the Second World War.
FRASER
Don and Hannah Fraser
Old Downie
Beauly
FRASER
John Lee Fraser
Bonnieview, Beauly,
Scotland
GEDDES
Father Geddes (last known address 1955)Shanwall North, Deeside Road
Pete Culter
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Note: Father Geddes was the Catholic Priest serving the Beauly area and appears to have said mass at the Beaufort Castle when Patrick was in attendance there at Christmas and other occasions.
MACKIE
Mrs. Mackie
31 Dublin Street
Edinburgh, Scotland
MUNRO
Nan and Alex Munro
35 St Phillans Ave
Castle Hill Ayr
Scotland
Note: Nan is the niece of Hannah and Don Fraser
ADDITIONAL NAMES
There are many other names which we will be adding to this list as we continue to enter letters into the searchable database over the next few weeks and months. If you would like to help transcribe letters, please contact us.