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Walter Scott b. 1822-1880

Walter was the father of the Scotts that went to Canada. The house he had built in Bradford for his large family at"Oakleigh" 23 Oak Ave is a private Hotel today. 

He and his brother Silas entered the worsted (woven cloth)business. Walter joined as a young manager at Milligan, Forbes & Co. a trading company & married Henry Forbes' daughter, Jessie, in Paisley, Scotland. He had been working in Manchester & continued to live there where his first son Walter ( he became a doctor in London) was born. Throughout his life he suffered from an ulcer, known in those days as "neuralgia of the stomach" & died young from 'sheer exhaustion'.