1856-1932
Tweed finisher, 34 Henry Street
At different periods between 1913 and 1915, Robert was:
- A tweed finisher.
- President of the Langholm Co-operative Store.
- President of the Langholm Branch of the South of Scotland Woollen Trade’s Approved Society.
- Vice-president of the Langholm Working Men’s Sick Society.
- A senior figure in Langholm’s branch of the International Order of Good Templars (‘IOGT’).
- A leading member of the Langholm Mutual Improvement Society (seemingly superseded by the Townhead Literary Society).
He is seated at bottom right in the photo below of former Reid & Taylor workers. He gave the speech at the company’s celebrations for the marriage of company owner Fred Graham (see 2nd December 1915 in the Diary).
[His third son Joseph (1887-) served with the Royal Garrison Artillery and his sixth son Thomas (1896-) with the KOSB.] [Thomas probably too young to re-enlist]
It may well be his son Thomas who was photographed holding four lawn bowls and two jacks in 1919.
In November 1914, it appears that Robert chaired a meeting in Langholm for the Northern British Israel Council in the Eskdale Temperance Hotel hall, although there was another R Copeland in Langholm at the time (a vanman in Eskdaill Street).
Rev Leonard Hills was the director of the British-Israel Caravan Mission.
| Born | Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 1855 |
| Parents | Robert Copeland (-), Margaret Hall (-) |
| Siblings | |
| Marriage | Jane Martin |
| Children | |
| Died | Henry Street, Langholm, 1932, aged 77 |