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Date
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Event
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Source
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| 13-6-1802 |
Birth, in Cleish, of Elizabeth Tweedie,
parents: David Tweedie and Betty Allen. |
OPR CD |
| 1804 |
Approx. year of birth of James Grainger,
parents: Thomas Grainger and Jean Brownlie. |
Census &
reg. of death |
| 13-7-1804 |
John Powdrell joined the
Lanark Infantry at Lanark Barracks. Wages: £18 (Also
mentioned are a John and a James Tweedie. On outside of book
is written "Clydesdale Infantry, 1st Glasgow") |
Mrs Norman |
| 2-11-1804 |
Birth, in Polmont, of James Begg, parents:
James Begg and Jean Clark |
OPR CD |
| 1805 |
[Trafalgar] |
- |
| 5-5-1806 |
Birth, at Glenbervie, of William Begg,
father: James Begg |
OPR CD |
| 26-10-1806 |
Marriage, in Glasgow, of
John Powdrel and Margaret Neilson, residenter. (He was
then aged 26 . Register states "servant, Glasgow" - he probably
said "serving." He was a still a soldier at that time. There
is also an annotation: "warrant not called for") (Date from IGI CD…
unclear on film of actual register)
The next entry (i.e. the line below on the same day)
is (from memory) the marriage of "Alexander Neilson, plane maker".
Worth checking for the births of Margaret and Alexander Neilson.
(In the Napier Collection at GU
Archives there is recorded: 1821 - Tack of Lease from
Robert Napier, smith, to "Alexander Neilson, plane maker," of
the wright’s shop above Napier’s smithy in Grammar School Wynd,
Glasgow).
Dumbarton born Napier, the "Father of Clyde shipbuilding,"
first set up business as a smith in 1815, in Greyfriars Wynd off the High
Street. Around this time, i.e. in the early 1820's, he had a contract
to manufacture pipes for a Glasgow waterworks scheme and produced a 12
h.p. steam engine for a Dundee Mill. Twenty years later, he was building
1150 ton ships for the Cunard line which he (with Charles MacIver, Sam
Cunard, George Burns and with the help of some Glasgow businessmen) helped
to found. |
OPR
Graham
Hopner,
Local
Studies
Librarian,
Dumbarton
Library
|
| Dec 1807 |
John Powdrell recorded in
wages book of 1st Glagow (Volunteers) |
Mrs Norman |
| 5-9-1808? |
John Powdrell recorded in
wages book for Symington Lodge Biggar. Officer: Alex Renton. |
Mrs Norman |
| 1808 |
Glasgow Infantry left for France. |
Mrs Norman |
| 1811 |
Marriage of Catherine Dowie and William
Poustie (1st husband) |
IGI |
| 1812 |
Birth of William Poustie, parents: Cathereine
Dowie and William Poustie. |
OPR CD |
1815
|
[Waterloo] |
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| 2-10-1815 |
John
Powdrell - aged 35 - having
been shot in the arm, is discharged from his regiment. |
Mrs Norman |
| 8-3-1816 |
County of Leicestershire (1816)
The examination of John Powdrell of Nailstone
in the said County touching his legal settlement taken upon oath this 8th
March 1816.
This examinant says that he is about the age of 37 years
- that he was born, as he has been informed, at Nailstone aforesaid where
his father resided and was legally settled. That when he was about
twelve years old, he was bound an apprentice to John Billings of Desford,
in the said county, framework knitter, for the term of seven years,
that he continued with his master, the said John Billings, for about one
year when his mother bought his time out from the said J. Billings, for
the sum of one guinea or a guinea and a half, but he is not sure which,
that he then came and resided at Nailstone aforesaid for about 3 or 4 months
working at his trade of weaving stockings, that he then enlisted into the
Glasgow Volunteers and has served in various Regiments as a Private Soldier
ever since till the 2nd October last when he was discharged. That
he has never done any other act to gain a settlement in any parish or place
to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Sworn before (J. Adnult?).
The Mark of John Powdrell |
Mrs Norman |
| 29-1-1820 |
[Accession
of George IV] |
- |
| 23-1-1824 |
Birth, in Lanark, of Sarah Powdrel, parents:
John Powdrel and May (Marion) Dowie. |
Lan 648/6 |
| 11-12-1825 |
James Grainger, mason, married, in Edinburgh
(both in Old Greyfriars Parish), Catherine Dowie, daughter of Thomas
Dowie, mason [and May Millions], of Kinross. |
OPR |
| 7-11-1826 |
Birth, in Lanark, of John Baxter Poudrel
(John Grainger after adoption by May's sister, Catherine),
parents: John Poudrel and May Dowie. |
Lan 648/6 P55 |
| March 1827 |
Great fall of snow - continued for 2 days;
200 men were employed at "castin' the roads." Mr James Foote,
manufacturer, Kinross, not making his appearance from Dunfermline,
where he had gone on business, 50 men went in search of him over the
Cleish Hills where he was found frozen to death. (7th to 9th March)
(Could refer to William Foote's brother, James, who would
have been 46 in December 1826... easy enough to check). |
Annals of
Kinross-shire |
| 26-6-1830 |
[Accession
of William IV] |
- |
| 20-5-1832 |
Marriage, in Kinross (and again in Cleish
on the 8th June), of William Foote
and Elizabeth Tweedie. |
OPR |
| 1832 |
Birth of Elizabeth Foote, parents: William
Foot and Betty Tweedie. |
IGI |
| 1833 |
Birth of Janet (Jessie) Foote,
parents: William Foote and Elizabeth Tweedie. |
Inscrption |
| 22-7-1836 |
Marriage, at Glenbervie (Fetteresso on
the 24th), of William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR CD |
| 25-9-1836 |
(May be irrelevant) Birth of James Begg,
parents: James Begg and Margaret Findlayson. |
OPR CD |
| 28-5-1837 |
Birth, in Feterresso, of William Begg,
parents William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR Index |
| 20-6-1837 |
[Accession
of Queen Victoria] |
- |
| 18-2-1839 |
Birth, in Feterresso, of George Begg,
parents William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR Index |
| 6-6-1841 |
Census
Kelty Village, Cleish:
David Tweedie, 75, Linen Weaver
William Tweedie, 40, Linen Weaver
Janet Tweedie, 40
Bettie Tweedie Foote, 35
Betty Foote, 10
Janet Foote, 8
West End of Kinross:
James Grainger, 36, mason
Catherine, 45
John Grainger, 12 (born John Baxter Poudrel)
(actually aged 14 - born 7-11-1826)
9 Commercial Rd, Hutchiesontown:
Margaret Begg, 30
Mary, 10
Margaret, 7
James, 5 |
[Census
Lan 644/2 - 96] |
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24-7-1843
29-7-1843
|
Dissolution
of Clyde Marine Insurance Co. (agreed 4th July 1843)
Sequestration - James
Smith (Madeleine's father), director
of above Ins. Co
Sequestration - James Dowie of Heatheryford,
and wright of Kinross.
Sequestration - William Foote
, potato dealer and shipowner.
(coincidence)?
The records of St Serf's Masonic Lodge in Kinross are
in the attic and, apparently, the ceiling is quite high so a long ladder
has to be put up - but sooner or later ...
 |
Edinburgh
Gazette |
| 6-2-1845 |
Birth, in Fordoun, of Susan Begg, parents
William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR Index |
| 5-4-1847 |
Birth, in Fordoun, of Eliza Begg, parents
William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR Index |
| 11-7-1848 |
Birth, in Fordoun, of James Begg, parents
William Begg and Susan Henderson. |
OPR Index |
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