Rise - ‘Be bloody, bold, and resolute’ – Shakespeare’s Macbeth

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On the evening of Sunday 2nd April 1871, Jane McBeth, a widowed Housekeeper from the Perthshire town of Callander, was listed as residing at number 17 Cleveland Street, in the Barony Parish of Glasgow. With her at this address were her 14 year old son, William, and her 21 year old daughter Jane, listed respectively as a Salesman and Saleswoman on the form collected by the enumerator that night.[1] Ten years previously the family were recorded in their native town of Callander, Jane, 42, with her husband and head of the household, Peter MacBeath, 56, and their children John, 23, Peter, 13, Jane, 11, and William, 4.[2] It was here that Peter MacBeath ran a woollen drapers and grocers on Callander’s Main Street, where his family also lived. However within the next decade much would change for the MacBeath family (their surname often variously spelt), and particularly for young William. A chain of events would be set in motion that would not only change his life forever, but prove to be the catalyst in the prelude of a quite epic story. One that encapsulates the peaks and troughs of human existence, and that personifies the very noblest of its virtues, the story of the birth of Rangers Football Club.

 

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