Hugh Heaney of Stirling
Hugh Heaney Jnr was born at 3.30am on Saturday, 28 July 1888 at 42 Stirling Street, Renton, Dumbarton. His father registered his birth on 14 August 1888. The Registrar was Duncan Shaw.
Hugh married Agnes Wallace by declaration, in Falkirk, on 5 January 1915. Hugh was aged 26 and a Coal Miner. Agnes was aged 22, a Laundry Worker, of 228 King Street, Rutherglen, Glasgow. Her mother was deceased in 1915, her father was living.
Agnes was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow, in 1892, the daughter of John, a Coal Miner, and Agnes Wallace (nee Ritchie). John and Agnes Wallace (nee Ritchie) were both born in Ireland, as were their four eldest children.
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Agnes Heaney (Wallace) born 1892 front row with her son Hugh born 1915 back row
Hugh Heaney born 1888 and son Hugh Heaney born 1915
Hugh & Agnes Heaney at their home 29 North End, Stirling
Hugh and Agnes lived at 29 North End in Cambusbarron, Stirling.
Their known children are:
1. Hugh Heaney born 11 George Street in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, on 25 October 1915. He married Sarah Kerr Cockburn Ferguson in Linlithgow, West Lothian, on 26 August 1938.
Hugh Heaney born 1915
Hugh Heaney born 1915
Hugh Heaney & Sarah Ferguson
Hugh Heaney born 1915 - Egypt
Hugh Heaney
Hugh Heaney born 1915 - Egypt
North End Stirling
Sarah Ferguson
They had four children:
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1. Hugh Heaney was born in 1939 at 29A Cambusbarron and died, aged 2, on the 2nd Feb 1941 at Bo'ness Fever Hospital from Septicemia as a result of chicken pox.
Hugh Heaney 1939 - 1941
2. Mary Duncan Heaney was born 29th October 1941 at 2 Kettilstown Road, Linlithgow. She married Thomas Rennie on the 26th June 1965 at the Bruce Memorial Church, Cambusbarron. They immigrated to Melbourne, Australia a year after they were married where they had two son’s Jason born 1971 and Aaron born 1973. Mary had been a fashion model for London designer Mary Quant in the late 1950's and appeared on TV.
Thomas Rennie was working on the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne during it's construction and narrowly escaped death. Two years into construction on 15 October 1970, the 367-foot span between piers 10 and 11 collapsed and fell 164 feet to the ground and water below. Thirty-five construction workers were killed and 18 injured, and it remains Australia's worst industrial accident. Many of those who died were on lunch break beneath the structure in workers' huts, which were crushed by the falling span. Others were working on and inside the span when it fell. The whole 2,000-tonne mass plummeted into the Yarra River mud with an explosion of gas, dust and mangled metal that shook buildings hundreds of metres away. Nearby houses were spattered with flying mud. The roar of the impact, the explosion, and the fire that followed, could be clearly heard over 12 miles away.
Thomas Rennie & Mary Duncan Heaney
3. Stuart Wallace Heaney. Born 29 September 1946. He married June Emma Mitchell on the 29th of July 1970 at St Ninians Church, Stirling, Scotland. They have one child Cara Jane Heaney born 29 June 1975.
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4. Craig Heaney was born on the 11th of November 1948 at Airthrey Castle Maternity Hospital, Bridge of Allan. He married Jennifer Grant Forbes on the 2nd June 1973 at Carriden Parish Church, Boness. Craig was in the Air Force and the family lived in Tersteegen Strasse, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Craig & Jennifer Heaney 1973
Craig & Jennifer had four children :
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- Kirsty Jennifer Heaney. Born 22nd November 1975 at Royal Airforce Hospital, Wegberg, Germany. She died on the 2nd of November 2001 in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia.
Kirsty Heaney 1975 - 2001
- Gemma Forbes Heaney. Born 6th July 1978. Her ex-partner is Nico Thomas. They have 2 children together Calan Forbes Heaney-Thomas born 2005 and Caris Kirsty Forbes Thomas born 2010.
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- Linzi Craig Heaney. Born 1978. Her partner is Michael Annan. They have 2 children Brodie Craig Heaney-Annan born 2011 and Blair Michael Heaney-Annan born 2014
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- Ritchie Jonathan Heaney. Born on the 4th of July 1980 at Queen Mothers Hospital, Glasgow.
Gemma, Ritchie & Linzi Heaney
Sarah Ferguson, North Berwick 1937
2. Agnes Ritchie Heaney was born at 11 George Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 14th of July 1918. As a child she was brought up by her Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom , Her mother's sister and her husband. She attended Stirling High School.
She married Charles Stewart at St George's Church, St Ninians, Stirling on the 27th of July 1946. Both Agnes and Charles were school teachers.
Charles Stewart & Agnes Ritchie Heaney on their wedding day St Georges Church, St Ninians 27th of July 1946. Sister Letty on right as bridesmaid.
Agnes Ritchie Heaney
Agnes & Charles had four children:
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- John Gordon (Gordon) Stewart born March 1948. He first married Mary Ward Fisher in Balfron, Stirling in 1972. They had two daughters. Karen born in 1975 and Gillian born 1978. Gillian married Graham Beverage.
Gordon later left his Scottish family behind and immigrated to Canada. He remarried and had one son - Blair Stewart. Gordon died in 2018.
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- Margaret Ann Stewart born December 1950 in Stirling. When Margaret was young her mother fell seriously ill and all the children were split up to be looked after by relatives. She went to live with her grandparents Hugh and Agnes Heaney for a time.
Margaret married Charles Harley Struth in Larbert, Stirlingshire in 1974.
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Margaret and Charlie had three children:
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- Alistair Struth born September 1981. He has two children with his partner Anna Murphy. Emilia born in 2013 and Alexander born 2019.
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- Moira Margaret Struth born March 1983. She married Christopher McCreath in 2013. They have one son Adam born in 2016.
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- Fiona Struth born January 1985.
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- Agnes Morag Stewart born December 1953. She married Allan Goldsmith in 1977. They moved to live in Darlington, England.
Hugh Heaney and Agnes Heaney (nee Wallace) Agnes Ritchie Heaney & Charlie Stewart with children Gordon and Margaret. Letty Heaney in black V-neck.
Agnes Ritchie Heaney
1949 - Margaret Heaney, Letty Heaney, Hugh Heaney (father) with Mary Duncan Heaney on his knee; Agnes Heaney (nee Wallace); Mary Ann Heaney and Hugh Heaney (Born) 1915
Margaret, Letty, Mary Ann and Sarah Heaney 1954
December 2018 - L to R: Alistair Struth, his daughter Emilia Struth, Karen Stewart with little boy Harris, Gillian Stewart with son Marcus, Charlie Struth in blue jumper. On sofa. Back row L to R - Fiona Struth and her mother Margaret Struth (in red) Front Row on sofa L to R - Mary Stewart (nee Fisher) Xavier (Fiona's then boyfriend), Moira Struth (in white) holding son Adam and her husbnad Chris McCreath.
Left - Agnes Morag Stewart with husband Allan Goldsmith.
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Above - Agnes Ritchie Heaney & Charles Stewart Wedding in the local newspaper 1946.
Agnes Ritchie Stewart (nee Heaney) on her 98th Birthday - July 2016
3. Mary Ann Mulholland Heaney. Born in Hamilton in 1921 and named after her grandmother. She married John Lindsay at 11 Douglas Terrace, Stirling on the 13th of June 1947.
They had two daughters:
- Agnes Wallace Lindsay (Nan/Ann) was born on the 29th of January 1949. She worked for many years as cabin crew with British Airways. She married Mark John Shackell in 1996 at Cromlix House, Dunblane - They divorced in 2003 but remained good friends. Having spent most of her young life as Nan she changed her name to Ann at the suggestion of a BA colleague.
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- May Lindsay was born in Dalgetty, Fife, UK in 1951. From around the age of 5 May started to exhibit signs of a disability. Her mother coped as best she could and May was very popular in Cambusbarron and would walk round the village visiting all of the neighbours as a small child. She was admitted to Larbert Asylum at the age of 15 in 1966. Some time later, by chance, it was discovered that she was suffering from Rett Syndrome. Rett syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that affects brain development, resulting in severe mental and physical disability. It is estimated to affect about 1 in 12,000 girls born each year and is only rarely seen in boys.
May was eventually transferred to Stirling District Asylum, Bellsdyke Hospital, Larbert where she died in 1997 aged 46.
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John Lindsay died in Cambusbarron in 1969 and Mary Ann Mulholland Lindsay (nee Heaney) also died there in 1980.
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4. Margaret Wallace Heaney. Born in Hamilton on the 20th of June 1923. She married Andrew Ritchie in Stirling in 1946.
They had two children :
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- Iain Ritchie born in 1948 in Stirling.
- Agnes Anne (Anne) Ritchie born 1951 in Falkirk. She married Gordon Magnus Bain in Falkirk in 1973.
Margaret Wallace Ritchie (nee Heaney) died in Falkirk, Scotland on the 27th of October 2005. Andrew Ritchie died in Falkirk in April 2020.
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5. Letitia (Letty) Heaney Born in Cambusbarron, Stirling, in 1927. Married Robert (Bobby) Drummond Hughes in Cambusbarron in 1951.
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They had two children:
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- Ralph Drummond Hughes born in Logie, Stirling in 1954.
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- Alison Wallace Hughes born in Stirling in 1959. She married John Henry Crozier and had three children:
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- Emma Elizabeth Crozier born in Dunblane in 1990 and died at Dunblane Primary School on the 13th of March 1996. She was one of the children shot at the school massacre.
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- Jack Crozier born 1994
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- Ellie Crozier born 1997
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Since their sisters death, her siblings, Jack and Ellie, have made it their mission to honour her with action, and use their platform to support anti-gun campaigners in America.
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Jack and Ellie’s parents were part of the campaign in 1996 to ban guns in the UK. More than 700,000 people signed the Snowdrop petition which led to the government banning the private possession of handguns.
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Robert Drummond Hughes died in Stirling in 2003, his wife Letitia Hughes (nee Heaney) died in Stirling in 2013
Letitia Hughes (nee Heaney)
Agnes Heaney with daughters Mary Ann, Margaret and Letitia - 1930's
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Left - Margaret Wallace Ritchie (nee Heaney, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during WW2.
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Above - Andrew Ritchie & Margaret Ritchie (nee Heaney)
Top Left - Gordon Bain & Ann Bain (nee Ritchie)
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Top Right - Emma Crozier
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Bottom Left - Jack, Ellie and Alison Crozier with Scotland's 1st Minister.
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Bottom Right - Jack & Ellie on the campaign trail
Hugh Heaney Senior died in Stirling on 10th March 1962, aged 73. He's buried in Ballengeich Cemetery, Stirling.
His grandchildren remember him as a great man with a fantastic personality. He had many jobs over his life including the lamplighter in Cambusbarron. He would take his grandchildren out with him to walk round the streets as he put flame to the gas. A hard worker he continued to work in later life trying his hand at many things, even working in the local rubberworks. Known for his 'gift of the gab' he also used to read fortunes and make life predictions. No one knows if he actually had a genuine gift for this or not but people were keen to listen!
Agnes Heaney (nee Wallace) died in Stirling on the 12th of September 1978, aged 85
Hugh Heaney with the X above his head
Hugh & Agnes Heaney
