What's in a name? "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet I came across something the other day about my last name—Ferguson. It’s an Anglicized version of the Scots Gaelic Macfhearghus, often translated as “son of the angry one”… or “son of the …
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“Big Tom” Ferguson – Old School Lawman
Listed below is the obituary for my great grandfather Chief Constable Thomas Ferguson as posted in the Stirling Observer, Stirling Scotland on Saturday October 19th 1918. What's interesting about this account of his life are the descriptions and references to a time and place when Scottish law and order were still largely entrusted to a …
“Big Tom” Ferguson – Old School Lawman
Listed below is the obituary for my great grandfather Chief Constable Thomas Ferguson as posted in the Stirling Observer, Stirling Scotland on Saturday October 19th 1918. What's interesting about this account of his life are the descriptions and references to a time and place when Scottish law and order were still largely entrusted to a …
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