...with Football legend Rose Reilly talking about her challenges to play football and her journey to become a World Cup winner.
7.30pm at Ayrshire College, Hill St, Kilmarnock
...with Football legend Rose Reilly talking about her challenges to play football and her journey to become a World Cup winner.
7.30pm at Ayrshire College, Hill St, Kilmarnock
An interesting article appeared on the BBC News website this week. It will certainly take many of you back to more prosperous times in Kilmarnock !
Whisky, tractors, carpets and shoes: Kilmarnock in the 1950s
Our first meeting of 2024 sees KDHG welcome Yvonne McFadden who will talk about Lost Mining Villages of Ayrshire.
Open Space at Ayrshire College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock at 7.30pm.
Visitors welcome (we usually ask for a £3 donation)
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Bicket
Reunion in Kilmarnock 5-7 August 2023
Centrestage
Long-standing readers of the Kilmarnock Standard may
remember articles about the Bicket family tree appearing first in 1969, and
then again in 1981. Since then ork on the family tree has continued, and as a
result there will be a family tree reunion at CentreStage in Kilmarnock on 5-7
August 2023.
The organizers would be happy to welcome
others who are interested in attending.
Please check with bicket@one-name.org.
Saturday 5 August will be the main day, when group
photos will be taken.
Stuart Wilson, a local historian, will be giving a
couple of talks during the reunion. On
Saturday 5 August he will be talking on ‘Why your ancestors left
Scotland’. There will also be short overviews
of many of the branches by their members.
It is planned to visit local places associated with
various ancestors on Sunday and Monday.
There have been a few well-known Bickets from this
Ayrshire tree.
One of them, Sir Alexander Bicket (1853-1931), worked
for the Kilmarnock Standard in 1870 when he was 17, before heading to Liverpool
and making his name in the tugboat business there. His great-grandson is Harry Bicket OBE, the
conductor. Thomas Walter Bickett
(1869-1921) was governor of the state of North Carolina in the USA from 1917
through 1921. Welton David Becket
(1902-1969) founded one of America’s largest architectural firms. And there are still many descendant Bickets,
Bicketts, Beckets, Becketts and Bichans in Ayrshire, throughout Scotland, and
throughout the world, including Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand.
Bicket family tree research started using deep DNA
testing in 2018. The result has been the
identification of 27 different branches of this tree which originated in Ayrshire. 21 of these branches all descended from a
single individual born around 1400. There are five genetic branches which can
only trace themselves back to the north of Ireland (Antrim, Down, Sligo, and
Mayo), but they are genetically clearly part of the Ayrshire tree.
There is more information about the family on https://bicket.one-name.net.
Kay Park Church extends an invitation to anyone who is interested in little known aspects of Kilmarnock's history to attend a very special event. Dr David Liu, will travel from Taiwan to tell the story of "Kilmarnock to Formosa (Taiwan)". The connecting link between these two places was Dr David Landsborough III, who was related to a former minister of the then Henderson Church (now Kay Park Church). In 1896 Dr Landsborough established Changhua Christian Hospital in Formosa. This link with Kilmarnock is very precious to Taiwanese people who continue his work to this day.
On Thursday, 1 June, at 7 p.m. you can meet Dr Liu at Kay Park Church and be inspired by the mission outreach of our Kilmarnock fore-fathers.The last talk of this session will take place on Thursday 23 March at 7.30pm when Ian Matheson will be in attendance. Ayrshire College Kilmarnock Campus as usual.
The AGM will take place at the start of the meeting.
Following on from our work to help get the Red Wheel installed at Troon Harbour, the group has been mentioned in a Motion in The Scottish Parliament this week.