Lair Records/MIs for Luss or Dumbarton

[emamc]

Thanks Alan that was really interesting and gave a good picture of how my Ancestors would have lived. I believe some of them were farmers and others fishermen.

On reading the posts again I see they come from Brian and Ann, sorry I had thought it was only one - so much for the old eye operation - pitty it did not extend to the brain!!!

It looks like Donald could be one of John and Christian's I will have to go and have a look at the records again and see if I can find any place names.

Liz

[Rockford]

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the delay it replying to the most recent posts, which seem to have slipped past me!

I haven't got much information on the Smiths/McFarlans from Luss further back than John Smith b. 1826 and his wife Elizabeth McFarlan, so I'm afraid I can't help with the potential Rosneath connection - although by coincidence I stayed there in April and am going back next month....

The murder is an interesting one [thanks Alan for the link] - wouldn't that be just like the thing - you search for people for years and then find out something like that. I haven't done much on this branch of the family recently, as I've been concentrating on more recent relations, but hopefully, I'll get more time to get back into it in the summer and will keep you all posted.

Best wishes

Brian

[LynnC]

Hi all

(first post on TalkingScot, I've only been bitten by the genealogy bug quite recently)

I found this thread via google research my branch of McFarlans from Luss/Rosneath having traced my 5x great grandparents to John McFarlan/Christian Colquhoun.

Not got much further that I've managed to verify, but in my research for this and other family members I've found Post Office directories etc to be full of information and I found the Rahan McFarlans in this which I hope can also help others:

Fowler's commercial directory of the lower ward of Renfrewshire .. (1832)

http://www.archive.org/details/fowlersc ... a183637pai

p 223 covers the McFarlans of Rahan

Lynn C

[AnneM]

Welcome Lynn

Can't get a smilie to come up here!

I did not manage to get the book to load but my connection is slow at the moment so will try at a more propitious moment. Looks as though we may well be related. It's great to see another 'cousin' on the board.

Anne

[LynnC]

The text version is quicker to load, but you lose the formatting (in the full version e.g. you can see the size of house & no of bedrooms for each), but these are definately some of those mentioned above and probably all related to one another :

M'Farlane, Alex, fisher. Shore house, Balernaig
M'Farlane, Donald*, smith and farrier, Row
4 M'Farlane, Donald, fisher, Rachean
4 IVl'Farlane, Duncan, pensioner, Faslane
4 M^Farlane, Humphrey, fisher, Rachean
M'Farlane, James, ferryman, Portkill ferry

6 M'Farlane, John, gardener, Balernaig cottage
M'Farlane, John, spirit dealer, Rachean
M^Farlane, Parlane, farmer, Faslane
M^Farlane, Robert, farmer, Greenfield

Lynn

[AnneM]

Thanks Lynn. Nice to see them in print.

Anne

[Alan SHARP]

Hi all

(first post on TalkingScot, I've only been bitten by the genealogy bug quite recently)

I found this thread via google research my branch of McFarlans from Luss/Rosneath having traced my 5x great grandparents to John McFarlan/Christian Colquhoun.

Not got much further that I've managed to verify, but in my research for this and other family members I've found Post Office directories etc to be full of information and I found the Rahan McFarlans in this which I hope can also help others:

Fowler's commercial directory of the lower ward of Renfrewshire .. (1832)

http://www.archive.org/details/fowlersc ... a183637pai

p 223 covers the McFarlans of Rahan

Lynn C

Greetings, Lynn C from New Zealand.

WELCOME to the TalkingScot family, and thanks for the link to Fowlers Street Directory [lower Renfrew]1832.

I found the publication VERY interesting reading on a number of counts, and especially so for the link of surnames [and occupations] which I associate with the Paisley Migration to Auckland in the 1840’s and referred to as “The Founding Fathers’ of Auckland NZ.” The directory provided a great insight to the period, and what they emigrated from.

I see a John SHARP, was a licensed Porter/Barrow Man, and their rules of engagement along the Clyde, very interesting.

http://www.archive.org/stream/fowlersco ... h/page+290

So to was the Paisley Humane Societies instructions, on how to aid a drowning victim, which included MOUTH to MOUTH resuscitation. I had not realized the method, was being promoted so far back in history.

http://www.archive.org/stream/fowlersco ... h/drowning

Alan SHARP