Family history pages

This set of pages is in two parts linked by this contents page.

• Some time ago, when I was undertaking post-graduate study, I wrote a paper for a family history course. In this I described what I could find of the families of whom I am a representative, and attempted to set them in a historical, geographical and social context, as artisans (more or less) in Scotland during the time of industrialisation; converging on the Glasgow area, though my own parents moved to Dundee.
  I have re-acquired a complete copy of the paper and am putting it here, as a set of chapters. This has taken some time as is still not complete. In the process, I'll point out inconsistencies and errors as [Ed.note: ..], but retain the material as it was when I wrote it. Longer comments will be added to footnotes but identified as new.


• Recently-found material (of which there is very much more, regarding both family members and analysis) will be linked from the first document and from this table of contents. This material goes further back, starting from what was earlier found and exploring lines to Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Renfrewshire, Wigtownshire, Perthshire and elsewhere. The availability of materials on the internet, notably from the Scotland's People website, has helped this work greatly.
  Although I wrote this going-further-back material later I'm moving it to the FIRST place in the list below. It's much more accurate!

So here is a beginning, and some developments from it... please check back for more material, over time. And please remember that this was, initially, a paper for post-graduate credit. I hope that you, the readers, may find it useful, persist with reading it, and contribute your comments and, hopefully, further information... you can email me at jenny'AT'wyrdswell.co.uk.

1. Farmers and Craftspeople: New material from 2005-09 (19th, 18th, and 17th centuries). The newer, more accurate stuff that goes further back in time.
2. Artisans in Industrial Scotland: the initial history with some updates (the 19th and 20th centuries). The original paper.

• A few images
  • Places
  • People

Farmers and craftspeople: the move to industrialisation

New and expanded material since initial writing of the paper.

Copyright © J. Blain 2005-2009

• My mother's family: Linlithgow and Linlithgow Bridge, the lines of her grandmother Marion Fisher
  1. The Fishers, McCullochs and Stewarts (with other files linked)
  2. The Whytes and others in Linlithgow Bridge and Linlithgow
• My mother's family: The Cassidys and the Lynch family: Ireland to Dundee and Glasgow

• My father's family: Blains in Wigtownshire and Greenock
1. Blains in 19th century Wigtownshire and the move to Greenock
2. Blain Farmers in Wigtownshire
• My father's family: Knaggs, Mushet and Gorrie lines
  1. the Knaggs and McLachlans
  2. James Mushet and Helen Gorrie
  3. Mushets in Ayrshire and Perthshire
  4. Perthshire Gorrie connections
• My father's family: From the Forth to the Clyde: Philip and Bell
• A speculative link; Cunningham and Couts in Edinburgh (various files are linked from an index page here)
• My father's family: tree pages of the ancestors of my grandfather Peter Blain, some of this speculative.

References for the above sections are given on the page where they occur.

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Artisans in Industrial Scotland

Jenny Blain
The original paper with some corrections
Initially submitted to the Advanced Seminar on the Family, January 1988.

Copyright © J. Blain 1988, 2005, 2008

Introductory note and acknowledgements

I My mother's family

1. Janet Lynch, her parents and siblings and their home life
   • Parents and siblings
   • Everyday life
2. The Pendleburys and Fishers
3. The Lynch family

II My father's family

1. William Blain and his parents and siblings
2. The Knaggs line
3. The Blain family

III From Glasgow to Dundee: my mother's story

IV Industrialisation and Change

Footnotes (were separate in the original, but are here included with each page)

References

Please email with any useful information.