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Single Person record details
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Person Code
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NA16470
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Corporate Name
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A. G. Reid
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Dates
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1910-1939
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Epithet
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builder and contractor
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Activity
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Alexander George Reid (1869 - 1958), son of Elizabeth Bisset and Lewis Reid, stonecutter, served his apprenticeship with John Morgan, Aberdeen. He was, with his brother William Bisset Reid, a partner in the firm of A. G. and W. B. Reid, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, until the late 1930s, and from about 1933 until 1939 he also ran the haulage and contractor business A.G. Reid and Son[s] with his son Lewis. In succession to W. Gifford, A. G. Reid was ground officer, land steward or factor of Kemnay Estate, from about 1919 to the 1930s, and was involved in the selling off of farms following the sequestration of the Estate in the 1920s. A.G. and W.B. Reid undertook contract work for the newly established Forestry Commission. A.G. Reid was also a founder member of St. Bryde Lodge of Freemasons, Kemnay, in the 1920s and 1930s, and of Aberdeenshire County Council School Management Committee - Alford Area in the 1920s: he was parents? representative on the committee for many years. He died at The Knowe, Kemnay, in 1958. His wife Mary Forbes died there in 1956, aged 85. He had several sons and daughters: his son Lewis joined him in the haulage business with a Commer lorry and float around 1933, and sold this business to Bill Nicol in 1939, before emigrating to South Africa with his wife and family. He was still believed to be alive in 1996. William Bisset Reid died in 1945 aged 70.
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Jurisdiction
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Kemnay
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Subordinate
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Kemnay
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Associated records
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GB231/MS 3544 | Alexander George Reid, Builder and Contractor, Kemnay | 1845-1937 |
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