Hugh Bruce (1889 - 1933) Hugh Howat Bruce was born 13 May 1889 in Sornhill, Hurlford, Ayrshire. He was the youngest of nine children born to William Bruce (William ‘Bruce’ Hendrie) and Grace Howat. They had married on 29 November 1871 just after the birth of their first child Janet Bruce. There was an eighteen year age difference between eldest and youngest children Hugh’s father, William Bruce, died on 8 Oct 1890 when Hugh was only 17 months old. This left his mother with eight children to raise. From the 1891 Census it appears that Robert Bruce, the eldest son, was the only wage earner at that time, following his father 'down the mine'.
Birth : Hugh Howat Bruce - 13 May 1889 1891 Census : Mrs William Bruce Hugh Bruce
Sornhill, Galston. A card with a rare shot of the Auld Raw at Sornhill on the left. A phone box used to sit below the house in the centre. The date of postage is 1904.
Howie’s Square Maxwood Rows Sornhill
Hugh Bruce was born in Sornhill village in 1889 and was living there at the time of the 1891 Census. Before 1900 the family had moved to the poor quality miners’ accommodation that was Maxwood Rows. In 1911 he was living in Orchard St and by the time of his marriage in 1913 he had moved to Newmilns.
Orchard St