Note: "Samuel Spence of the Parish of St Andrews and Catherine Eunson of the Parish of Kirkwall were matriomonially contracted 3rd November, and after proclamation were married 4th December 1849 by the Revd. Robert paterson. Witnesses--James Eunson and james Drever."
Note: "Grandma Spence and her daughters, Clarissa and Ann, were Presbyterians. They went to a church at Inverbrackie (which is in ruins and covered with ivy), where the Woodside camp is. After a while there was a Presbyterian minister who came to the Institute building in Nairne. Then they couldn't get a minister, and there was practically no congregation left; so they joined the Primitive Methodists. I was 4 or 5 years old then (cir. 1906). That faded out, so they went to the Wesleyan Methodists (or vice versa)."
"When Grandma Spence was very old, I used to sit on a little stool to read the Bible to her. I was very young, but if I made a mistake she would immediately pick it up. As Grandma became old, she started to speak Gaelic again." [Instead of Gaelic, it might have been the old Norse dialect which is spoken on the Orkney Islands.]"
"Grandma Spence had a wine licence, and they used to buy wine in a big barrel. When sombody wanted some wine, she filled a bottle for them. Beryl used to say that she used to catch the drips on her fingers and suck it."