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Family history at the St Nicholas Kirk

Peter MacClure came on tour on 29 June 2022. His great-grandparents, Robert Allen and Mary Jane Gambles married in 1877 and lived in Ducrow for a few years until they emigrated to New Zealand. Mary Jane was a daughter of Jean Linnay from Ducrow. Robert was born in Sandwick but his mother later married Robert Eunson and moved to Thistlequoy in Holm. He greatly appreciated his visit to the Kirk and to Ducrow, and looking through the Holm Heritage archive.

 

 

First wedding held at the Ould Kirk

 Ingrid Drever and Robbie Gillespie chose St Nicholas (the Auld Kirk) for their wedding on 30 April 2022.

Growing up in Holm, The Auld Kirk has always been a special place for Ingrid and her family. It’s very likely that theirs is the first wedding to be held in St Nicholas, as archive searches haven’t found a record of any other marriage.

With it’s beautifully restored interior, it made a very special setting!

 

New funding for the Ould Kirk

 

The Trustees of the Holm Community Heritage at St Nicholas Kirk are delighted to have been recently awarded match funding from both OIC Community Development Fund and the Holm Community Council to get some work done for them. The group can now secure independent professional assistance to both ascertain the condition, and potential work, needed on the building itself; and also to work with the group and the wider community to identify a development plan which will secure the future of this unique and historic building as an asset for the whole community to use.