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Wouldn't worry about the spelling, MacGrigor's how it would have been pronounced, still is by yours truly!

Johnny.

Robinson, a family of this name were glassmakers/employers in the Dudley/Stourbridge area from the 1770's to the 1850's. The names Ann, Benjamin, George , Frederick. John & Samuel Robinson & a glassworks at Amblecote. My own glassmaking ancestors moved from Edinburgh to Derby, to Dudley then Glasgow...

Glassworkers were amongst the earliest tradesmen to move around the UK. Robinson sounds English but possibly from Ireland, check...

http://scotlandsglass.co.uk/

Johnnie

Folks, some info' on Westburn here, http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou096.htm

Johnnie.

This superb site on the correspondence of Dr William Cullen might be of interest. Dr Cullen kept up an enormous exchange of letters during his time as Head of the Edinburgh Medical School, thousands of which are reproduced here, covering the second half of the 18th century, www.cullenproject.ac.uk J...

Wayne, it looks like one of General Wade's bridges.

Johnnie.

Sighthill on the Springburn Road is the nearest cemetery.

Johnnie

Les, a relative of mine was once working at Strathvaich, north of Garve, I think that's what you're after.

Johnnie

Orlaith, many thanks for the offer, I more or less know mine, my gr' grannie was from Fearn and I spent holidays doon The Villages, I can still do the accent once I've had a few.

Johnnie

Melissa, This is indeed the territory of the Clan Ross, I have ancestors from there myself descending from an Andrew Ross. The fact that there were so many Ross's meant that families had to be known by a by-name, a practice which still continues in the nearby fishing villages. In your case possibly ...