1842 - 1936 (94 years)
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Name |
Robert Tullis |
Birth |
1842 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1936 |
Person ID |
I143714 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
29 Jul 2019 |
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Notes |
- In 1905 he had moved up the river from Auchmuty House to Strathenry where he lived to become an elderly country gentleman. Keteley wrote: "A generous kindliness and courtesy pervades his records, and a great integrity, but there is something of sadness too in the story of a man who saw his inheritance pass out his hands."
- (Research):The Russell conection is interesting in the light of other Russell connections:
Robert Tullis (1842-1936), the son of George Smith Tullis, became a partner in R. Tullis & Company in 1872; he joined William, his uncle, and James Thrift Smith. Robert operated the Fife Herald until 1879 when he sold it along with the bookstore and press in Cupar to John Innes who had been editor of the Herald. In 1864, David Russell and Arthur Russell joined as partners in the papermaking and bleaching businesses. This partnership appears to have continued a relationship between the Tullises and the Russells that is documented by marriage and baptismal records and business connections. The mother of Robert Tullis (the founder) was a Russell as well as his uncle by marriage and one of the sponsors of his baptism; he sold books to Russells, was a neighbor of a Russell and a Russell was a one-time editor of the Herald.
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