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Hello andersonic, This may be of interest to you. I have a sheet from the 1871 census for the High Street, Linlithgow. There are 5 families listed: Number 247 High Street there is Thomas Dixon - Shoemaker, his wife Elizabeth and 6 children. Mount Pleasant (No number given) there is Robert Braes - Ca...

Hello wehenley,

The Glasgow Herald dated 25 July 1892 (page 10)reported:

July 24 - Arrived at The Tail of The Bank
Rabine (brig) 258, Johansen, from Quebec for Bowling - timber.

The Tail of The Bank is on the River Clyde at Greenock, I am not sure where Bowling is.

johni

Hello Kathy,

I don't know when the records were first amended, but I have a marriage record from 1913 in Glasgow which was later given a RCE stamp for a divorce that took place in 1919.

John

Hello estriplin, This post is generally about the descendants of Thomas Chalmers (born 1815 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire) and Margaret Russell Barrie (born 1822 in Slamannan, Stirlingshire). Thomas' parents were Thomas Chalmers and Margaret Hutton (born in 1786 in Dunipace, Stirlingshire. I have no ...

Sorry again,

I omitted the first half of the report:

White—June 13. at the residence of her son-in-law, the Rev. C. F. Patten, The Bolotwa, Cape of Good Hope,
In her 79th year, Amelia, the beloved wife of J. G. White Esq., Liverpool and Birkenhead.

johni

Sorry steiner, I don't actually have a subscription to the site. I used the advanced search facility.

Set the publication title and the dates that you are interested in and then search for "amelia"

johni

Hello steiner,

There is not much in the notice.

In her 79th year, Amelia, the beloved wife of J. G. White Esq., Liverpool and Birkenhead.

johni

Hello Daryl,

There is a mention of the Yewglen in the Times dated 9 July 1931

YEWGLEN:- Yarmouth, Norfolk. July 8 - Steamer Yewglen of Glasgow, bound Blyth, in ballast, while leaving harbour this afternoon struck and damaged South Pier.

John

Thanks for that everyone,

It looks like a Lorryman was a sort of Carter, perhaps with a certain type of wagon. I expect my great grandfather's experience with plough horses came in useful for his new occupation.

john

When my grandmother and her two sisters were married in the very early 1900’s, they gave their father’s occupation as a Potato Lorryman. Was this simply someone who drove a vehicle loaded with potatoes? Surely there was more to it than that. Did they even have lorries, as we know them, in those days...