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George Boughtwood

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George Boughtwood succeeded Tom Murray as Superintendent of the Labour Home at Malta House in September 1910 and remained there until his retirement in 1939. He was born on 12 July 1872 at Hanningfield, Essex, son of a labourer, William Boughtwood and his wife Jane. In the 1891 census he was recorded as a farm…

Alexander Wight

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Alexander Wight, dairyman, and his family were recorded at No. 1 in the 1911 Census. He was born at Newbattle on 5 May 1857, son of blacksmith Alexander Wight (1823-1896) and his wife Margaret Robb (1821-1916). The family moved to Dalkeith when he was young, and in 1871 he was working there as a blacksmith,…