email from Greg McKie 20.3.2007
Robert was a ‘farmer of 120 acres’ and was also working as a ‘magistrate’ in 1861. He had his entire family (six children aged from 25-45) still living at home with him.
email from Greg McKie 5.8.2008
occupation Bailee
email from Greg McKie 20.3.2007
David (jnr) was a ‘farmer of 28 acres’ and a ‘widower’ with eight young children in 1851. Both parents were still alive in 1841 with David working as an ‘agricultural labourer’ at ‘Bentfield Farm’.
email from Greg McKie 20.3.2007
email from Greg McKie 20.3.2007
In 1861 Christian (Thomas’ wife) was a ‘muslin tambourer’, Thomas, Christian, Alexander and William were ‘cotton weaver’s’. Margaret and Catherine were ‘muslin labourers’. A ‘tambourer’ stretched silk for embroidery. James was an ‘ironmonger’. The unmarried children: Margaret, Catherine, William and James all lived in Catherine’s house on the Edinburgh-Glasgow road in Whitburn.
email from Greg McKie 20.3.2007
a 'weaver'
email from Greg McKie 5.8.2008
Elizabeth did not marry and was a ‘reeler boarder’ in 1841