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Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland
Clubmakers
Peter McEwan
Edinburgh
Peter was a son of James McEwan, the first clubmaker of six generations of McEwans who followed that tradition, and his wife Janet, née Young, and born in Wright’s Houses by Bruntsfield Links on 20 September 1781.

It was not a simple inheritance of a business when Peter McEwan continued the clubmaking tradition of his father after James’s death in March 1800. Peter started the McEwan business in 1806 and by 1820 had three clubmakers working for him. He also started the tradition of marking clubs “McEwan” without an initial which makes it hard to attribute them to any particular family member.

Douglas Gourlay, the famous ballmaker, originally from St Andrews, had moved to Bruntsfield in the early 1790s with his second wife, Mary. At the end of 1802 or beginning of 1803 Peter McEwan married his daughter, Jean. Douglas Gourlay’s name stopped appearing as a ballmaker after 1800 which might have been as a result of his second wife suing him for alimony and child support but, in the same year Peter McEwan started his firm, Gourlay’s son, William, Peter’s brother-in-law, began his ballmaking business. The two cooperated and Peter’s son, James, became an apprentice ballmaker to Gourlay in 1824.

It was Peter’s other son, Douglas, who carried on the clubmaking business after Peter’s death on 26 April 1836, sadly the same day Peter’s elder son, James, also died.

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