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Jane Haining - Dunscore church
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: Jane Haining - Dunscore church Reply with quote

UKNIWM Ref: 44316

OS Map Ref: NX 866 843

Further details can be found http://www.dumfries-and-galloway.co.uk/people/haining.htm - thanks to David McNay for the link.



and I couldn't resist this shot of the church

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jane Haining is a distant relative of mine. Her father married for a second time when Jane was a teenager, and he married a great-great-aunt of mine.

Jane's step-sister Agnes was in contact with me until her death a couple of years ago.

I have more information on Jane Haining which I will post later.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jane attended Dumfries academy and her name appears on a plaque of notable pupils on the outside wall of the building. See memorial for Dumfries Academy for details of location.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

see also the new memorial for Jane (2005) which is posted seperately
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is from today's Edinburgh Evening News. Elaine Pomeransky of Restalrig has obviously not been to Dunscore.

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=169952007

I've posted a comment about it.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I checked out Jane Haining on the web. It turns out there are another two memorials to her

From the Gazeteer of Scotland website:

Jane Haining
1897 - 1944

...She is remembered in the stained-glass windows of Queen's Park Church in Glasgow, at the Church in Dunscore, at the Scottish Mission in Budapest and by a stone in the 'Vigil for the Scottish Parliament' monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and as mentioned on Jane's new 2005 memorial, she is also commemorated in The Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have some stuff about that which I'll post when I find it. I have a copy of the certificate which was given to her half-sister to commemorate this.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adam Brown wrote:
...She is remembered ...by a stone in the 'Vigil for the Scottish Parliament' monument on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.


Jane Haining's plaque and the stone from Auschwitz:



And here's the cairn and its poistion on Calton Hill with another two war memorials behind it. I will post all these again under Edinburgh when I get a chance.



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jane's family gravestone in Irongray churchyard, it mentions her death in Auschwitz.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just seen an item on BBC Reporting Scotland about a campaign to give Jane Haining a posthumous honour. There is a similar article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7803163.stm.

"Two memorials to Miss Haining exist in Scotland - a pair of stained glass windows at the Queen's Park Church of Scotland in Glasgow, where she worshipped, and a plaque at Dunscore Kirk, Dumfries, close to where she was born. "

So what are the stone on Calton Hill, the plaque outside her old school and the 2005 memorial in Dunscore then?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've e-mailed BBC Scotland News with a link to this page letting them know about the other three memorials in Scotland to Jane Haining.

Cheers

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:11 pm    Post subject: Jane Haining Reply with quote

Hi this is my first post, I noticed the subject and thought I would add this picture I took at Irongray church near Dumfries.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This on the BBC website about moves to get Jane a posthumous award

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8014841.stm
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Government now looking at creating new award and Jane's name seems to be a major force for it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8023280.stm

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