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Burr's of Tongue History Project
Peter Burr, who had been managing one of Garden Snr’s shops in Orkney, was married to Isabella Robertson of Moneymusk, Aberdeenshire. The couple had lived there initially, they then moved with Isabella’s brother, Gordon Robertson, to St. Margaret’s Hope in Orkney to run the shop there.
As their families grew the business became too small to support them all. Furthermore Isabella suffered badly from seasickness. In May 1913, she and Peter decided to buy Garden’s shop in Tongue so she would not have to suffer so many sea voyages between Orkney and the mainland. Pic of P&I B maybe family? Thus the family moved to Tongue to manage the shop and also bought Garden Jnr’s homestead “Dunvarrich.
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