Harrower Family Tree » William Lunn Harrower (1926-2010)
Personal data William Lunn Harrower
Source 1- He was born on December 31, 1926 in Ross's Buildings, Kelty, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
22.05.12 - Search for "Ross" Building, Kelty, showed was in Station Road, Kelty
- He was baptized on February 3, 1927 in Townhill United Free Church, Townhill, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 2
Minister - John Campbell
- Occupations:
- in the year 1949 Butcher in Glendale, Dewar Drive, Leven, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
- between January 1945 and December 1948 Scots Guards.Source 4
Harrower, William Lunn, Army Number 2703939 ;
Conscripted January 1945 to Scots Guards. Sworn in and enrolled a Guardsmen, Ser. No 2703939, 11th January 1945, Guards Depot, Caterham, Surrey, Cpl. Law’s Squad, weapons training etc. (See Photo) Basic training 8 weeks.
March 1945 to Guards Training Camp, Pirbright.
V.E. Day 8 May - Day in London.
June/ July 1945, Caernarfon, Wales, Training at Snowdonia National Park.
July 1945, to barracks at Windsor Castle. Windsor Castle Guards.
August 1945, Stobs Camp, Hawick, (V.J. Day 15 August)
August 16 to August 30, Embarkation leave for B.A.O.R. (British Army on the Rhine)
September 1945, to join 2nd. Battalion, G Company, Troop train to Dover, S.S. Empire Wansbeck to Ostend, Ostend to Krefeld Transit Camp, Germany, Krefeld to Wipperfurth, 26 miles N.E. of Cologne. Wipperfurth (Forcibly occupied German civilian property, static intensive.
Garrison duties plus Guards on railway goods train containing surplus ammunition from WWII.
Also Guards on farms (Russian zone nearby). Guard room - local pub.
October 31 1945, drill course, Wipperfurth. Passed and appointed U/LCPL.
December 1945, appointed P/LCPL.
Posted to Demonstration Training Platoon (Drill/ Weapon demonstration
Posted to Paderborn Training Facility, (Infantry/Armoured attack ???? to Student Officers live armed I/C Bren Gun Unit.
Return to Wipperfurth.
January 1946, Battalion posted to Wansbeck Barracks, Hamburg. Met Jim there who was stationed.
Garrison duties including War Crime Trials.
Lubeck. Guards on approx. 8 miles of A/B parked vehicles surplus to WWII.
April 1946 returned to UK.
Disembarkation Leave, Posted to Eastfield Camp, Edinburgh (near Redford Barracks)
June 1 1947 Appointed UP/A/CPL i.e. Lance Sgt.?
July 1947, Posted Chelsea Barracks, London. Garrison/Royal Duties (Bank of England/Tower of London/Buckingham and St. James Palace.
Jan 20 1948, Demob No. 65, at Inkerman Barracks, Knaphill, Woking.
Demob leave until March 1948.
Added by me, Jan 1945 till March 1948, 39 Months. - between October 1949 and March 1978 Police Constable, Police Sergeant in Fife, Scotland.Source 4
- Resident:
- between September 27, 1974 and March 11, 1978: 8 Wilson Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland.Source 4
- on August 19, 2010: Benore Care Home, 203-207 Loch Leven Road, Lochore, Fife, Scotland.Sources 5, 6
- in the year 1955: Burntisland, Fife, Scotland.Source 1
- between 1978 and 2010: 52 Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland.Source 7
- between APR and August 19, 2010: Benore Care Home, 203-207 Loch Leven Road, Lochore, Fife, Scotland.Source 8
- in the year 1965: 21 Aberdour Crescent, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 9
- between 2003 and April 2010: 52 Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland.Source 10
- in the year 1960: 21 Aberdour Crescent, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Source 11
- in the year 1949: Glendale, Dewar Drive, Leven, Fife, Scotland.Source 3
- (Informant at Death) on August 23, 2010 in Cowdenbeath Registrars, Town House, High Street, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland: Colin Harrower, Son.Source 5
- (National Registration ID Card) between January 1948 and June 1950: William Lunn Harrower ID Card.Source 12
- He died on August 19, 2010 in Benore Care Home, 203-207 Loch Leven Road, Lochore, Fife, Scotland, he was 83 years old.Sources 5, 13
Age: 83
Oorzaak: Bronchopneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (C.O.P.D.), Aortic Valve Disease
- He is cremated on August 24, 2010 in Dunfermline Crematorium, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.Sources 5, 14
- Will in the year 1992 naar 52 Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland.Source 15
- A child of John Harrower and Kate Wilson
Household of William Lunn Harrower
He is married to Eleanor May Balfour Mortimer Rankin Leitch.
They had the banns put up on January 11, 1949.Source 16
They got married on January 27, 1949 at Kennoway Parish Church, Kennoway, Fife, Scotland, he was 22 years old.Source 3Child(ren):
Event (Witness at Marriage) on January 27, 1949 in Kennoway Parish Church, Kennoway, Fife, Scotland : Margaret Jessie M Robertson, Abe Harrower.Source 3
Event (Marriage Fact) on January 27, 1949 in Kennoway Parish Church, Kennoway, Fife, Scotland : Andrew Robertson, Eleanor's Uncle, was the Brides Escort.Source 3
Notes about William Lunn Harrower
1. 22.05.12 - Search for "Ross" Building, Kelty, showed area was in Station Road, Kelty.
2. Could be that Ross Building was named after John Ross, originator of Gothenburg Society, (See media).
Kelty Gothenburg Society Building is now No 1 Goth, at Kelty Cross. Was Dad born here, or is there another Ross Building?
3. A newspaper clipping - from the Scotsman, 22nd April 1929, states that Ross Buildings, were in Lindsay Road, Kelty. Lindsay Row was situated accross the road from the access to Hilton Farm. The Lindsay Pit was in the same area.
4. Postcode KY4 0BL (from ????PROPERTY WEBSITE????) shows that Ross Building is further East on Station Road.
5. Lunn name introduced .................... the marriage of William Lunn, to Agnes Reid, decided William Lunn Harrower, b 1926, middle name, and also his Uncles and Aunts. Dad didn't know this!!!!
6. Detective Constable William Harrower, of Dunfermline, has been promoted uniformed Sergeant in Cowdenbeath. Since joining Fife Constabulary at Cupar in 1949, Sergeant Harrower has served at Burntisland and Dunfermline, the last six years with the C.I.D. Born in Kelty, he was raised in the Methil and Buckhaven area, starting his working life as an apprentice butcher with G. W. Douglas, of Leven. After a spell with Buckhaven Co-Operative Society, he spent three years in The Scots Guards. He then became a member of the Buckingham Palace guard, leaving in 1948 with the rank of sergeant. A married man with a 15 year-old son, Sergeant Harrower lives at 21 Aberdour Crescent, Dunfermline.
7. William Lunn Harrower
Conscripted January 1945 to Scots Guards. sworn in and enrolled a Guardsman, Ser. No 2703939, 11th January 1945, Guards Depot, Caterham, Surrey, Cpl. Law’s Squad, weapons training etc. (See Photo) Basic training 8 weeks.
March 1945 to Guards Training Camp, Pirbright.
V.E. Day 8 May - Day in London.
June/ July 1945, Caernarfon, Wales, Training at Snowdonia National Park.
July 1945, to barracks at Windsor Castle. Windsor Castle Guards.
August 1945, Stobs Camp, Hawick, (V.J. Day 15 August)
August 16 to August 30, Embarkation leave for B.A.O.R. (British Army on the Rhine)
September 1945, to join 2nd. Battalion, G Company, Troop train to Dover, S.S. Empire Wansbeck to Ostend, Ostend to Krefeld Transit Camp, Germany, Krefeld to Wipperfurth, 26 miles N.E. of Cologne. Wipperfurth forcibly occupied German civilian property, static intensive.
Garrison duties plus Guards on railway goods train containing surplus ammunition from WWII.
Also Guards on farms (Russian zone nearby). Guard room - local pub.
October 31 1945, drill course, Wipperfurth. Passed and appointed U/LCPL.
December 1945, appointed P/LCPL.
Posted to Demonstration Training Platoon Drill/ Weapon demonstration
Posted to Paderborn Training Facility, Infantry/Armoured attack ???? to Student Officers live armed I/C Bren Gun Unit.
Return to Wipperfurth.
January 1946, Battalion posted to Wansbeck Barracks, Hamburg. Met Jim there who was stationed.
Garrison duties including War Crime Trials.
Lubeck. Guards on approx. 8 miles of A/B parked vehicles surplus to WWII.
April 1946 returned to UK.
Disembarkation Leave, Posted to Eastfield Camp, Edinburgh (near Redford Barracks)
June 1 1947 Appointed UP/A/CPL i.e. Lance Sgt.?
July 1947, Posted Chelsea Barracks, London. Garrison/Royal Duties Bank of England/Tower of London/Buckingham and St. James Palace.
Jan 20 1948, Demob No. 65, at Inkerman Barracks, Knaphill, Woking.
Demob leave until March 1948.
Added by me, Jan 1945 till March 1948, 39 Months.
8. HARROWER. - Peacefully at Benore Care Home, Lochore on Thursday 19th August 2010, William Harrower, aged 83 years of Cowdenbeath. Beloved husband of the late Eleanor, loving father of Colin and father-in-law of Liz and a dearly loved grandad of Craig and Grant and a great - grandad to Calvin.
Published in the Central Fife Times on 26th August 2010
9. Scotlands People - HARROWER, WILLIAM LINN, M, 1927, 410/2 16, Kelty
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Sources
- Fife, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1914-1966, Ancestry.com, 1955 Record for William L Harrower and Eleanor M Harrower Fife Collections Centre; Fife, Scotland; Fife Electoral Registers; Reference: FC/AS/1/75/1
Record for William L Harrower and Eleanor M Harrower
/ Ancestry.com
Name: William L Harrower
Residence Year: 1955
Residence Place: Burntisland, Fife, Scotland - Family Held Certificate, 1926 BIRTH WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER EXTRACT ENTRY OF BIRTH Extracted from the REGISTER BOOK OF BIRTHS for the District of Kelty in the County of Fife this 17th day of March 1937 Jas. M. Anderson. William Lunn Harrower, b. 1926, December Thirtyfirst, Ross's Buildings, Kelty
William Lunn Harrower, b. 1926, December Thirtyfirst, Ross's Buildings, Kelty, Parents John Harrower, Kate Wilson, m. Jan 1st 1912, Dunfermline, Informant Thomas Wilson, Grandfather, 95d Main Street, Townhill Registered January 29th, Kelty, Signed Jas M. Anderson Registrar
Extract of an Entry in a Register of Birth.
William Lunn Harrower.
1926 December Thirty First 6h. 40m. P.M.
Ross's Buildings, Kelty
M.
Parents: John Harrower, Butchery Manager
Kate Harrower M.S. Wilson
m. 1912 January 1st Dunfermline
(signed) Thomas Wilson Grandfather,
95d Main Street, Townhill.
1927 January 29th at Kelty
(Signed) Jas. M. Anderson Registrar
Extracted from the REGISTER BOOK OF BIRTHS for the District of Kelty in the County of Fife this 17th day of March 1937
Jas. M. Anderson.
Added Baptised 3rd February 1927 John Campbell Minister Townhill United Free Church. Dunfermline - Family Held Certificate, 1949 MARRIAGE WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER, ELEANOR MAY LEITCH REGISTER OF MARRIAGE 27 January 1949, William Lunn Harrower and Eleanor May Leitch, Kennoway Old Parish Church, Kennoway, Fife Andrew Robertson acted as the brides Father
Marriage
1949 On the Twenty Seventh day of January at Parish Church, Kennoway.
After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland.
William Lunn Harrower, Butcher, Bachelor, Age 22, Glendale, Dewar Drive, Leven.
Parents, John Harrower, General Merchant Retired, Catherine Wilson.
Eleanor May Leitch, Chemist, Spinster, Age 20, 47 Henderson Park, Windygates. Parents, Andrew Leitch, Coal Miner , (deceased) Helen Leitch MS Rankine. (signed) WR Smart Kennoway Old Parish Church.
(signed)
Abram W. Harrower, 'Glendale' Dewar Drive, Leven, Witness,
Margaret JM Robertson, New Road, Kennoway, Witness.
Registered,
1949 January 29th Kennoway,
J. Anderson
Registrar - Family Held Certificate, 1945-1948 VARIOUS ARMY RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER Bet. Jan 1945–Dec 1948 William Lunn Harrower Various Army Records and Photographs, Scots Guards Army Number 2703939
Family Held Certificate, VARIOUS ARMY RECORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Bet. Jan 1945–Dec 1948
William Lunn Harrower
Various Army Records and Photographs, Scots Guards Army Number 2703939. - Family Held Certificate, 2019 WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER REGISTER OF DEATH William Lunn Harrower, d. 19 August, 2019
4199325 CE
DG
Extract of an entry in a REGISTER of DEATHS
(Section 37(2) of the Registration of Births. Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965)
DEATH Registered in the district of Fife, Cowdenbeath, District No 430 Year 2010 Entry No. 213
1. Forename(s): William Lunn
Surname: Harrower
2. Sex: M
3. Occupation: Police Sergeant (retired)
4. Date of birth: Year 1926 Month 12 Day 31
5. Age: 83 Years
6. Marital or civil partnership status: widowed
7. When died: 2010 August Nineteenth 2030 hours
8. Where died: Benore Care Home 203-207 Lochleven Road Lochore KY5 BHU
9. Usual residence (if different from 8 above)
10. Cause of death: I (a) Bronchopneumonia
(b) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(c)
(d)
II Aortic valve disease
Certifying registered medical practitioner Tamsin A Malham
11. Forename Surnames and occupation of spouse(s) or civil partner(s):
Eleanor May Leitch, Dispensing Chemist
12. Forenare(s), surname(s) and occupation of father/parent: John Harrower Butchers Shop Owner
(deceased)
13. Forename(s), surname(s) and occupation of mother/parent: Catherine Wilson (ms) or Harrower
(deceased)
14. Signature of informant, how qualified to give information and address:
(Signed) Colin Harrower Son
29 Glenfield Road Cowdenbeath KY49EP
15. When registered:
Year 2010 Month 8 Day 23
16. (Signed) A Williamson Registrar
Extracted from the Register of Deaths
on Twentythird August 2010 (Signed) A Williamson Registrar
The above particulars incorporate any subsequent corrections or amendments to the original entry made with the authority of the Registrar General
Warning
It is an offence under section 53/3) of the Registration of Births. Deaths and Mamages (Scotland) Act 1965 for any person to pass as genuine any copy or reproduction of this extract which has not been made by a district registrar or assistant registrar and authenticated by his signature. This includes any photocopy made by any other person.
Any person who falsifies or forges any of the particulars on this extract or knowingly uses, gives or sends as genuine any false or forged extract is liable to prosecution under section 53(1) of the said Act. - UK and Ireland, Obituary Index, 2004-2017, Ancestry.com, WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER Publication Place: Lochgelly, Scotland; Web edition: http://www.centralFifetimes.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/13693962.Harrower__William/
Name: William Harrower
/ Ancestry.com
Gender: Male
Death Age: 83
Residence Place:Cowdenbeath
Death Date: 19 August 2010
Death Place: Benore Care Home, Lochore, Fife
Spouse: Eleanor
Child: Colin - Family Information, 1978–2010 WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER 52 Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland
1978–2010 WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER
52 Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland - Family Information, 2010 WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER Bet. Apr–19 Aug 2010 Benore Care Home, 203-207 Loch Leven Road, Lochore, Fife, Scotland
Bet. Apr–19 Aug 2010
Benore Care Home, 203-207 Loch Leven Road, Lochore, Fife, Scotland - Fife, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1914-1966, Ancestry.com, 1965 Record for William L Harrower and Eleanor M. Leitch Fife Collections Centre; Fife, Scotland; Fife Electoral Registers; Reference: FC/AS/1/110
Record for William L Harrower and Eleanor M. Leitch
/ Ancestry.com
Residence Year: 1965
Street address: Aberdour Crescent 21
Residence Place: Fife, Scotland - UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010, Ancestry.com, 2003 Record for William L Harrower Ancestry.com. UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2017. Description This collection comprises records from the UK Electoral Register between 2003 and 2010.
Record for William L Harrower
/ Ancestry.com
Name: Mr William L Harrower
Birth Date: 1924-1926
Residence Date: 2003-2010
Address:52, Craigbeath Court, KY4 9BY
Residence Place: Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland - Fife, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1914-1966, Ancestry.com, 1960 Record for William L Harrower Fife Collections Centre; Fife, Scotland; Fife Electoral Registers; Reference: FC/AS/1/95
Record for William L Harrower and Eleanor M. Harrower
/ Ancestry.com
Name: William L Harrower
Residence Year: 1960
Street address: Aberdour Crescent 21
Residence Place: Fife, Scotland - National Registration ID Card, Act of Parliament, William Lunn Harrower ID Card
STA 1959380 HARROWER
William L.
CLASS CODE A.
FULL POSTAL ADDRESS
"Glendale", Dewar Drive Leven.
Signed WL Harrower
STA 23 JAN 1948
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
REMOVED TO
45 Balgarvie Place, Cupar.
STA 13 OCT 1949
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
REMOVED TO
126 Dick Crescent, Burntisland.
STA 11 NOV 1949
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
REMOVED TO
8 Links Place, Burntisland.
STA 16 NOV 1949
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
REMOVED TO
c/o Glendale, Dewar Drive, Leven.
STA 25 APR 1950
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
REMOVED TO
Police Buildings, Burntisland.
STA 26 JUN 1950 - Newspaper Article, 2010 HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN Central Fife Times on 26th August 2010 https://www.centralFifetimes.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/13693962.Harrower__William/
HARROWER. - Peacefully at Benore Care Home, Lochore on Thursday 19th August 2010, William Harrower, aged 83 years of Cowdenbeath. Beloved husband of the late Eleanor, loving father of Colin and father- in- law of Liz and a dearly loved grandad of Craig and Grant and a great- grandad to Calvin.
Published in the Central Fife Times on 26th August 2010 - Newspaper Article, 2013 HARROWER, THOMAS d 4 September 2013 Published in the Central Fife Times on 12th September 2013 https://www.centralFifetimes.com/announcements/deaths/deaths/13703048.HARROWER__Thomas/
HARROWER. - (North Berwick) Peacefully at Abbey Care Home on Wednesday 4th September 2013. Thomas, husband of the late Margaret and much loved father of Ian, Neil, Robin and Gill. A service will be held at Warriston Crematorium Cloister Chapel on Friday 13th September at 1.30 pm to which all friends are welcome.
Published in the Central Fife Times on 12th September 2013 - Family Held Certificate, 1992 WILL WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER residing at Fifty-two Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife DO HEREBY make my Will as follows
William Lunn Harrower Will 1992
I, WILLIAM LUNN HARROWER residing
at Fifty-two Craigbeath Court, Cowdenbeath, Fife DO HEREBY make my Will as follows:-
Subject to payment of all my debts and funeral expenses, I leave and bequeath the sum of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS (£1,000.00) to each and any of my grandchildren who may be alive at the date of my death; And I leave and bequeath the whole residue and remainder of my means and estate heritable and moveable, real and personl, wheresoever situated to my son COLIN HARROWER; Declaring however that should my son, the said Colin Harrower, predecease me leaving issue who survive me, such issue shall take wholly among them if more than one, per stirpes, the share original and accrescing which their father would have taken had he survived me: And I appoint my son the said Colin Harrower to be my Executor: And I revoke all writings of a testamentary nature heretofore
executed by me: IN WITNESS WHEREOF - Family Held Certificate, 1949 BANNS HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN, ELEANOUR MAY LEITCH 11 JANUARY 1949 CERTIFICATE OF PROCLAMATION OF BANNS. At Leven, the Eleventh day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and forty nine. Marriage 27 January 1949, William Lunn Harrower and Eleanor May Leitch, Kennoway Old Parish Church, Kennoway, Fife
Certificate of Proclamation of Banns.
At Leven, the Eleventh day of January,One Thousand Nine Hundred and forty nine.
It is hereby certified that William Lunn Harrower, Bachelor, residing at Glendale, Dewar Drive, Leven and Eleanor May Leitch, Spinster, residing at 47 Henderson Park, Windygates have been duly proclaimed in the Church of Leven, Forman on Sunday 9th January 1949 in order to marriage, and that no objections have been offered
Signed Davd Doig, Minister..
Certificate of Marriage at Kennoway Old Parish Church the 27th day of January 1949.
It is hereby certified that the above parties were this day married by me, WR Smart,
Minister at Kennoway Old Parish Church
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- 1926 » Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic († 2016)
- 2008 » Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
- 2009 » Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
- 2011 » Raúl Ruiz, Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
- 2012 » Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
- 2012 » Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)
- 2012 » Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (b. 1944)
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The Harrower Family Tree publication was prepared by Colin Harrower.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin:
Colin Harrower, "Harrower Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/harrower-family-tree/I152.php : accessed May 10, 2025), "William Lunn Harrower (1926-2010)".
Colin Harrower, "Harrower Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/harrower-family-tree/I152.php : accessed May 10, 2025), "William Lunn Harrower (1926-2010)".