Farmers and Craftspeople:

Jenny Blain.

Copyright © J. Blain 2005-08

New findings: My father's family:

1. The Blains: from Wigtownshire to Greenock
2. Wigtownshire Blains: farming families and change
3. Philip and Bell: from the Forth to the Clyde
4. A possible link: Philps in Leith, Cunningham and Couts in Edinburgh
5. Knaggs, Mushet and Gorrie lines
   1. The Knaggs family and the sea
   2. Mushet and Gorrie connections

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My father's family

Leith and Edinburgh: Possible connections of James Philp

There is quite a lot that I've found out about the James Philp born in 1779 and his ancestry. Extant Edinburgh records include Burgess and Apprenticeship notifications, and while these are (unsurprisingly) incomplete they do add considerably to the clues found. But as I have been unable to demonstrate whether the James of 1779 is 'my' James I am separating out this section as a speculative part of the story, interesting in itself regardless of whose ancestors these people were.

Files in this speculative section include:

• Tailors and seafarers in Leith
• Wrights and Silversmiths in Edinburgh
• Corstorphine farmers
• The family of Adam Keir

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