Daoine Pharaig
Peter's People
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Family Group Sheet
Notes: School Headmaster. Graduated 1928 BSc Glasgow University. Worked for at least a few months in bank in Inverness before got first teaching post in Broadford in Skye, where where met Meg. Taught for a few months in school in Farraline Park junior secondary school in Inverness around time of marriage, then was appointed schoolmaster at Deshar School in Boat of Garten parish, near Carrbridge, Inverness-shire. Moved to St Madoes, Perthshire, as headmaster in 1950. Retired aged about 62 to Deshar, Lovers Lane, Scone.
Notes: School Teacher. Graduated 1928 MA Edinburgh University. Spent a few weeks in Tours, France while a student. First teaching post was in Broadford, Skye, where met Willie. After raising family, returned to teaching at Errol primary school, for three weeks, to help out, and stayed for 21 years. Started in old primary two, in what is now Errol village hall, in big room at back with stove, with Miss Anderson, then moved up through years, taught P7 for years, then taught Maths and English in Errol junior secondary school. Miss Todd, who came to teach in Errol school in the 1960s, married Willie and Meg's youngest son, Iain. After retiring, Meg taught at Northern District (later part of Grammar) and Perth Academy.
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Mum says her mother was one of those rare people who was very happy with her life as a schoolteacher. Her father, on the other hand, retired at the age of 62, because he had had enough of teaching. After Willie retired he used to drive Meg to Errol school and then stayed in Shalla-ree all day, supposedly doing the firm’s books, but really mostly playing with his grand-daughter Alison, who hadn’t started school at that time. Mum and Dad had to do the books again after he had supposedly done them because he didn’t understand how they were done. She recalls that her mother, recently retired, went on a Wallace Arnold coach trip to Interlaken, Switzerland with a friend, Mrs Henderson, and when she got back, Willie never even asked her how she had got on. Despite their different attitudes, a number of their former pupils have tesitified how Willie and Meg Swanney were both much-loved and appreciated teachers who made a difference to their lives.
Family gathering at Shalla-ree, Errol, 1985, to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of William and Margaret Swanney.
Here pictured are all their children, with spouses, and all grandchildren (except Brian Scott, who took the picture).
All grandchildren of Willie and Meg Swanney: Peter and Brian (standing); seated, from left: Linda, Jill, Claire, Rachel, Elizabeth, Nicola and Alison.
