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In fact he attended Edinburgh University from about 1870 and various certificates show him to have been successful in his studies. He duly became a minister in the United Presbyterian Church and in 1877 he was appointed to the charge of Stewarton in Ayrshire where my Father (also William Simpson Goodall) was born in 1881. I do not know the details of his progress which ended with his induction as Minister of Greyfriars Church in Glasgow in 1883. This was one of the big City Centre Churches still functioning in the mid 1920s because I was taken to a service there when I was a small boy. In more recent years I tried to visit the Church in Albion Street but found that the site is now occupied by a large newspaper building. William seems to have been highly respected according to the Church minutes, according to an extract written after his death in 1903. I remember being told that his death was caused by infected buttermilk. My Grandmother, Jane Mailler Goodall (née Scott) survived until 1932, aged 80, and I remember her well with great affection. She was very devout, gentle and kind to everyone; unworldly perhaps and this is illustrated by an incident which occurred while visiting us in London. She travelled up to town on a cheap day return ticket which could not be used between 4pm and 6pm. Grandmother just missed the 4 o'clock deadline and waited at Liverpool Street Station until after 6 as she believed she was not allowed to travel between 4 and 6. As she was in her seventies at the time there was some anxiety at home as to the cause of her delay. Her Mother married for the second time and so Grandmother had a half-brother, John Lindsay, who was related to a wealthy family called Lumsden. I know very little about this connection except that the Lumsdens owned a linen factory at Freuchie in Fife. John Lindsay had a daughter who married Tommy Shepherd a farmer of Gleghornie near North Berwick, east of Edinburgh. |
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