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Jock o' the mill and his wife Mymie were very dear, friendly, and helpful. Out at the door for a blether when you went past. Mymie dished up the dinners at the Tankerness school when Kenneth (my brother) and me were going. Good homely fare, mince, stew, stovies etc. Pudding was custard, semolina, chocolate sponge, pears & shortbread etc. Great days we had there.

Mymie was Jock's sister not his wife. I mind them both fine

Was that Jock and Mymie Foubister ?

Jock & Mymie were Linklater to name

No their surname was Linklater I think. Always known as Jock o the Mill and Mymie o the Mill.
Jock and Mymie Foubister lived in Holm.

I've just come across this. There were 14 in the family. The milling went back to at least a previous generation of Linklaters in the west mainland.There were 9 girls and 5 boys:- Maggiejean, Maryellen, Charlotte, Lily, Dorothea, Bella, Jessie, Mimie and Violet; the boys were Alfie, Jimmock, Robert, Ali and Jock. I don't know the order in which they were born.It was David Shearer (eldest son of Dorothea) who had the mill prior to its development into what it is today. My sons are also descended from Dorothea. She was their grandmother.

Sorry, Myra. wrong mill, you are thinking Sebay mill. Davie had that, this is the Tankerness mill and Jock was the last occupant.

I stayed with Jock & Mimie at their farm Little Fea in the summer school hols around 1968/1969 when I was aged 8 or 9. My granny was May Walker the sister of Joe Walker snr.
I loved them both dearly- the last contact I had with them was in the early 90s. They were both in a care home in Thurso then.