Presentation to Museum
On October 2nd this year, the museum had a visit from Mr Jack Thompson (from Portland Oregon USA) who presented the museum with a silver medal (pictured below) awarded to his great-grandfather,William Thomson, by the Insch Horticultural Society in 1872.
His great-grandfather originally lived at Mill Of Dunnydeer and Jack is hoping to get more information about his family roots from anyone whose ancestors may have had any association with the Thomson family and the Mill of Dunnydeer. (The Thomsons changed their name to Thompson in USA).
There was very good press coverage of the event and cuttings from the Press and Journal and the Inverurie Advertiser are reproduced below.
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Mr Thompson also presented the museum with a copy of a booklet about the Thompson family which he produced last year. Some of the pictures in the booklet relating to his great-grandfather's prizes from the Insch Horticultural Society are shown below.
Any information about "Mill of Dunnydeer" and the Thompson family would be greatly appreciated by Mr Thompson and can be communicated via our contact page.
More local information about Insch Horticultural Society
An album containing a number of newspaper cuttings and leaflets dating from 1920 to 2000 collected by Mrs Butchart was donated to the museum in 2004.
It contains some details about two Insch Horticultural Shows held in September 1928 and one in 1939. We also have in our archives,details about the Society being reformed in 1978 after about a 20 years gap.
Can anyone give us some more info please? (Again via contact page)
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