Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... memoir of the rev. george gunn, M.A., minister of stichill and hume. introduction. his forbears. flognvald the Rich, Earl of Mocria in Norway, who lived about the year 870, was the common ancestor of Queen Victoria and the Clan Gunn. The Queen is descended from Rolf, the second son, and the Gunns from Einar, the fourth son of the earl. Their settlement was in Caithness originally, but in the sixteenth century the principal families of the clan moved into Sutherland. There can be traced an unbroken line of eldest sons from the year 690 down to the present day; and these eldest sons generally bore the Christian name George, their great ancestor George, the Crowner of Caithness, being the most distinguished. It was a John Gunn who migrated from Caithness to Edinburgh early in the present century, and became a well-known business man of proved integrity. His son George spent his whole life from early boyhood in the service of The Edinburgh Evening Courant, and became the father of a George who died in infancy, and of George, the minister of Stichill and' Hume. George the minister's mother was Margaret Bryce, whose father and brother carried on in Edinburgh the business of gunmakers--representatives of the ancient and honourable craft of arruourors, and were well known and highly respected citizens. It was they who were the original proposers of the time ball on the Calton HilL In George Gunn's disposition and characteristics could be observed in pronounced and unmistakeable inheritance all the great qualities of both his father and mother He and his brothers and sisters were blessed in
