Children of Thomas McCunn Muir 1826 & Henrietta Latta

1. Robert Home Muir, b. 9/10/1853, Dumbarton, died 12/11/1915, at the Woking private Nursing Home of his brother, William Latta Muir.

Robert Home Muir, 53, manager shipyard, married Mary Forrester, 33, - born 1874 Bryanston Dorset - on 26/6/1907 in St James Church, Paddington - his address was 1 Lovaine Cres, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland & her address was 10 Spring Street, Paddington, her father, James Forrester, a gentleman. A great difference in ages! They had Douglas Forrester- this a middle name here - Muir Tynemouth Jun 1908,. They were still living at 1 Lovaine Cres, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland in 1911C & he was then a manager Shipyard. Have not found him in the 1901C.

1911. A member of the Prov.G. lodge of Mark Master Masons of Northumberland-FMP

The following is a transcript from the England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and
Administration) 1861-1941:
Robert Home Muir, V D, of 44 Percy Park, Tynemouth, Northumberland, naval architect died 12 Nov 1915
Inglewood Coley ave, Woking Surrey, Probate Newcastle-upon-Tyne 17 April to Mary Muir widow. Effects
10717 pounds, 19 shillings, 4 pence. An awful lot of money for 1915!

He left £100 to his sister, Annie Calder: £100 each to brothers, William, James & John: £100 to his godson, Robert Home Muir: £50 each to Edward Leonard Muir Cook, Mrs Mary F Hain & Douglas M Foster: the residue to his wife -FMP newspapers

In 1932, Mary Muir bought ‘Withs Farm’, a 16th Century barn, and moved in.

1939 Register . The Forresters, Maldon - presumably named after her maiden name??

Mary

Muir

24 Jul 1874

Female

Poultry Farmer Heavy Work

Widowed

1949. Mary Muir died in Colchester- she was the younger daughter of James Forrester of Bryanstone - FMP News.

In 1968 her son, Douglas Forrester-Muir, read an article which predicted a boom in the golf industry. Together with his wife Susie he
set about designing and building a golf course around Withs Farm. This involved the family eating quantities
of Victoria Plums in order to use the tins as hole cups, Susie sewing home-made flags which were attached to
bamboo canes, and the recruitment of blind war veterans to make all the tee mats.
A year later the Grand Opening of the 9-hole course took place. Greenfee money was put into a Quality
Street ‘honesty’ tin and the price was 10/- a round. Mary Muir died in 1949
In 1975 Forrester Park became a club, run by Susie and her son Tim following Douglas’s death in 1972. Between
them they did all the mowing and cooking, taking it in turns to run the bar at lunchtime.
Branching out into another area, in 1984 two tennis courts were built and the Tennis Club was formed.
Then, in 1990, another 9 holes were built (not, this time, single-handedly), and the club acquired a practice
ground.
The following year, two additional tennis courts were built, and two years after that, the clubhouse was
extended to include the upstairs Forresters Restaurant.
The most recent addition has been Forrester Park Swimming Pool, built in the grounds five(?) years ago and
specialising in children’s lessons and aqua aerobics.
Forrester Park now has over 40 staff; an 18-hole parkland golf course; four tennis courts; a swimming pool; a
restaurant which caters for all types of function; and a licence to hold civil weddings.
Ref: http://forresterpark.wordpress.com/about-us/

Cannot locate Douglas Forrester-Muir in 1939 Register - maybe in the forces.

Douglas Forrester-Muir married Jean E Bardsley- Susie? -in 1952 and they had Timothy Forrester-Muir in 1954, Colchester. He married Anne P Dimmock in 1993 and they have Isabella Julia 1995 & Madeleine India 1996. .

Repeated efforts to contact these descendants have resulted in failure

2. Ann Latta Muir, b.19/3/1855 Dumbarton, thought she died ~1862 Dumbarton, but an Annie Calder, sister, is left £100 in Robert Home Muir's 1915 will

3. Jane McCunn Muir, b. 1857 Dumbarton, presumably died before 1861C

4. William Latta Muir, b.9/6/1859, Dumbarton,, died 1924 Middlesex. He married Mary Agnes Latta - born 1866 Sykehouse, Yorkshire - When?? William & Mary had just one child: Mary Allison Latta Muir, b.1898,Glocs: her birth announced in the Times, FMP, her father being given as'of HongKong'. In 1911C his wife, Mary Agnes Muir was living, with daughter, at 20 Western Parade, Southsea, Portsmouth, as boarders. In 1911C, he was Head of Woking Private Nursing House, Inglewood, Coley Ave, Woking, Guilford, Surrey: his brother Robert Home Muir, died here in 1915. He was still here in 1917 when his daughter became engaged. She never married Major Todd - he was likely killed in WW1. She later married RODERICK LAING Mar 1926 in St. George Hanover Square.


Children of MARY MUIR and RODERICK LAING were
i. JOHN R. W. LAING, b. Dec 1926, Marylebone, London, England
ii. MARGARET A. LAING, b. Mar 1928, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England

5. Thomas McCunn Muir, b 12/10/1861 Dumbarton. He was a Marine Engineer, aged 19, still living with his parents in 1881C. Did he marry??

6. James Muir, b..18/10/1863 Dumbarton. He was an Apprentice Boatbuilder in 1881C, then a Naval Architegt, aged 27, by 1891C, still living with his parents. Then he married Jane Thompson Millar in 1892 and they had: Thomas McCunn Muir in 1895 & Catherine M Muir. 1899. Living Dumbarton in 1901C . On Genes on the Web Ancestry Family tree

7. Margaret Muir, b.1866 Dumbarton. This in Alison's PDF file, but need to check it as if born this year surely she & Alexander were twins??

8.. Alexander Hepburn Muir 1866 -1907

9. John Latta Muir, b. 4/12/1868 Dumbarton. In 1891C, aged 21, still living with his parents, an "App. steam engine fitter"

10. Duncan G. Muir b. 1876 Dumbarton.

for a tree see Thomas McCunn Muir