Russell Fyfe is looking for information about John
and Isobel Fyfe who lived at 13 Stoneyacre from approx 1945 - 1958.
Please contact Russell if you know anything about this family
Daniel Murray
I have a letter written from Tillicoultry on
Nov. 20, 1849, by Daniel Murray to his brother Alexander -- my
great, great, great grandfather -- who lived in Grenville Township,
Quebec, Canada.
I am trying to determine the significance of the fact that Daniel
was writing from Tillicoultry. As far as I know, this family
of Murrays had no connection to Tillicoultry, but I could be
quite wrong. Oral tradition holds that the family was descended
from the Murrays of Atholl. The earliest information that I have
is the birth of the first son of John Murray and Mary Cameron,
named John, born 1787 in Camlachie, Glasgow. Their second son,
Alexander, was born in Anderston, Glasgow, in 1788. John senior
worked on various canals -- Crinan, Caledonian and Glasgow, Paisley & Johnstone
-- as a labourer or possibly as a stonemason. Their family consisted
of some eight sons and one or two daughters, with Daniel born
in c.1801. From the letter it is clear that Daniel and his two
sons were weavers and that the weaving trade was not prospering
in 1849. I understand that Tillicoultry was a weaving centre
in the 19th century, so this may explain why Daniel was there.
I assume that weavers worked in their own homes at that time,
hence my interest in the physical location of the return address.
However, it is also interesting to note that one of the provosts
of Tillicoultry was a Murray.
Daniel lived in Cairnton Street
I would be very grateful for any information or comments that
you may have on the above.
Regards,
Cecil McPhee
Montreal, Canada
Tel: 514-937-2131(home)
Is your name Cram?
Hi there tillicoultry folks: My wife's grandfather lived
in Tillicoultry and married a lass from Glasgow . before moving
to America . One of their daughters(Marion) married a
James Moore Nelson, middle son of some Nelsons from
Northern Ireland, who built a rug mill in Kensington( a subburb
of Philadelphia Pennsylvania , U.S.A. I married the daughter
of James and Marion, in Philadelphia in 1956, after which we
moved to Massachusetts, where I attended Harvard University and
earned a master's degree in Applied Mathematics. in September
2001 we attended the marriage on our nephew , Roger Fisherto
Nannette Cunningham of Largs in Largs,and while in Scotland,we
drove to Tillicoultry , just to see what it is like(=very interesting)
I have enjoyed looking at the lovely pictures on your web-site.
While we were in Tillicoultry, we stopped for lunch at a pub
on the main, road, and I thought later that I should have asked
the bar
keep if there is still a Cram family in Tillicoultry. But now
that I have found your web-site-, I will ask you if there
is some kind soul there who would look in the local telephone
book for any remaing Crams and ask is they might like to contact
some distant relatives in America?
If you can help please contact Joe
Fisher
David Wilson is looking for relatives
My father was Archibald Wilson - born October 25,
1908 in Tillicoulty
to Alexander Wilson & Jean (Jane) Knox.
I plan a visit to Tillicoulty next year and would like to know if
I have any relatives in the area
Please contact David if you can help him
Hi does anyone have information about a Jim Archibald, he would be like i am in his late 60s. they used to live across from the bus station on the corner of the road to dollar and the one that went past devondale papermill. he had an accident working in the coop store and lost a finger about 1958 we used to go dancing at the cochrane hall and i think he was a member of the tennis club.
hope someone can help.
Hugh McLean[formerly of alloa, now in Australia I can be contacted at
1 fletcher st glenbrook nsw australia 2773
