The very first Chair of the Lundin Ladies Golf Club (before the term 'Captain' was used), back in 1891, was a Mr William Salmon. In that same year, he was also the Captain of Lundin Golf Club. Pictured above, William Hearsey Salmon was born in India on 25 March 1841. Both sides of his family had a long history in India and his maternal side were the subject of a 1905 book entitled "The Hearseys: Five Generations of an Anglo-Indian Family". His father was Major George Paris Salmon, of the Bengal Artillery.
On 26 April 1886 William married Jessie Euphemia Kennedy, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Kennedy of Bayview, Largo, at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. The marriage certificate describes WIlliam at that time as 'sometime tramway manager' but the newspaper marriage notice states that he was "late of Monte Video". Elsewhere he had been referred to as a 'colonial cattle farmer'. However, after their marriage, William and Jessie seem to have gone to Sussex, as in December 1886 a notice appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser that their son had been born prematurely in Horsham on the 11th of that month.
By 1891, the the same time that William was heading up both the Lundin Golf Club and the Ladies Club, the pair were at Elphinstone on Crescent Road, Lundin Links. Presumably they must have been established in the village for some time by then. Shortly afterwards they moved into Homelands, which had recently become available following the death of John Walker. They would continue to own Homelands (as well as residing sometimes in London and at 8 Ramsay Gardens in Edinburgh) until the death of Jessie in 1903, aged 38.
On 26 April 1886 William married Jessie Euphemia Kennedy, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Kennedy of Bayview, Largo, at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. The marriage certificate describes WIlliam at that time as 'sometime tramway manager' but the newspaper marriage notice states that he was "late of Monte Video". Elsewhere he had been referred to as a 'colonial cattle farmer'. However, after their marriage, William and Jessie seem to have gone to Sussex, as in December 1886 a notice appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser that their son had been born prematurely in Horsham on the 11th of that month.
By 1891, the the same time that William was heading up both the Lundin Golf Club and the Ladies Club, the pair were at Elphinstone on Crescent Road, Lundin Links. Presumably they must have been established in the village for some time by then. Shortly afterwards they moved into Homelands, which had recently become available following the death of John Walker. They would continue to own Homelands (as well as residing sometimes in London and at 8 Ramsay Gardens in Edinburgh) until the death of Jessie in 1903, aged 38.
Life would soon take a different turn for William Salmon. He met Caroline Glover Ker Graham and they lived in Newquay, Cornwall. In 1904 they had a child - Merle Paris Salmon. Father and daughter are pictured above when Merle was three. In 1907, they had a son, named Ronald Graeme Zeigler Hearsey Salmon. Sadly, these two children would be parent-less by 1911 - the year in which both Caroline and William died. William was aged 70, Caroline just 36.
With thanks to the descendants and relations of W.H.S. for sharing information and photographs on-line.
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