Ann Jack, who was usually known as Annie, was born at 20 Buccleuch Street on 26 November 1860.  Her father's occupation was still given as grain merchant, but his business address was shown in the Post Office Directories to be once again 231 Cowcaddens Street. Annie married William Brodie Galbraith, a chartered accountant in Glasgow, on 9 October 1888.  She died on 12 July 1942 in Kilmacolm, near Glasgow.  William died on 23 September 1945, also in Kilmacolm. Annie and William had eight children: Walter Weir (b. 1889), Thomas Dunlop (b. 1891), William Brodie (b. 1892), David Boyd (b. 1894), Norman Dunlop (b. 1896), Robert Jack (b. 1898), Annie Dunlop (b. 1900 [at last, a girl!]), and Alexander Henderson (b. 1904). The three middle boys, Brodie, David and Norman, were all killed in WWI.  W. B. Galbraith was, like his father, a Chartered Accountant in Glasgow, but lived at Overton Kilmacolm.  He was a Justice of the Peace and a Member of the Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow.  The eldest son, Walter Weir, became an eminent surgeon in Glasgow.  The second son, Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, after serving in the Royal Navy, became an M.P. for the Pollock Division of Glasgow 1945 to 1955, in which year he was elevated to the Peerage, becoming the First Baron Strathclyde. (Supplementary Note: William Brodie was a Lieutenant with the 1/7th Highland Light Infantry.  He died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles on 14 July 1915.  David Boyd was a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1/7th Highland Light Infantry and was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 20 August 1915.  Norman Dunlop was a 2nd Lieutenant and Brigade Transport Officer with the Highland Light Infantry when he was killed in action in France on 22 August 1918.  Robert Jack Dunlop, the father of Robert Jack Dunlop of Appin who has edited this article, also served in the 1/7th Highland Light Infantry [as Captain from 1 June 1916].   He survived the Gallipoli campaign to fight with the battalion in Palestine and France.)

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