Re-published with new forward and History of the family

Alexander Herald (1799 - 1863) live in Angus-shire in Scotland in the early 1800s. He was the grocer and Post-master at Guthrie, where he married and had 6 children. He was plagued by ill health, and used the time to write his musings, and eventually published a book - Amusements of Solitude in 1845.

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Alexander Herald is my great-great-great-great grandfather

Alexander Herald's oldest son David (b. 1829) is my ancestor, he married in Aberdeen and emigrated to Australia soon after. Of Alexanders other children, his daughters Helen (b 1831) and Susan (b 1836) both married and had children. Their descendants are still in Scotland. His sons George (b. 1840) also married and has many descendants still in Scotland. His daughter Mary (b. 1834) died a spinster and without any children, and his son William (b. 1838) - William is missing from the census in 1851, where he would have been 13, and no record of him can be located. It is assumed he died sometime between 1845 and 1851.

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As part of the re-publishing of Alexanders work, I have included a history of the Herald family name in Scotland in the time period and a deeper look into the lives of his parents, Alexander and his wife Elizabeth Methven, and his various children.

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Available at you nearest local bookstore with ISBN: 978-0645991581 or direct from J L Herald