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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: SamK on Wednesday 10 February 16 22:48 GMT (UK)
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Hi, I'm new to Rootschat and to genealogy so please be patient! I'm tracing my family tree on my father Alexander Roy King's side and have got various bits of information from Scotland's People - my grandfather was William Dick King, one of 9 children I think - his father was Alexander King (married to Mary McDonald Dick), who I believe died in 1897 (although it could be 1911, I'm a little confused by the records). They lived in Windmillhill Street. Alexander's father was Thomas King, a brick maker, and I think there were generations of quarry masters/masons. I'm slowly working my way through all the records but just wondered if anyone out there knows anything about any of my family? Or has anyone got any useful tips about how to proceed? Thanks!
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Hi Sam,
If you can post (in order) a summary of family names, wives names (with maiden names), birth & marriage dates, places & occupations with all the info you have found so far including census records this will help immensely.
Annie
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Hi and welcome to Rootschat
I was just about to post the same request - here is the 1891 entry for the family - address Windmill House Dalziel Motherwell. All b Motherwell except where shown otherwise
Alexander King 43 Quarrymaster
Mary 42 b Cleland
Thomas 20 b Glasgow
Margaret 18 ditto
James 15
Alexander 13
John 9
Robert 7
Charlotte 6
William 4
Allan 1
Barbara Penman 18 servant b Airdrie
Dalziel ED 12 Page 9 Line 22
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQFS-HZ2
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTXH-FW5
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ8C-M47
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In 1901 at 93 Windmill St - the following King children are shown as the sons/daughter of James & Lucy Anderson. You would need to view the original image to see if an error has been made
Alexander/John/Robert/Charlotte (shown as Lottie)/ William & Allan
Dalziel ED 25 Page 20 Line 13
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Hi, I have lots of information on the King family, I am in London tonight but will be back in Motherwell tomorrow and will be in touch.
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Windmillhill Street.
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Thanks so much everyone, I will gather all my scraps of paper and print-outs together and form a summary.
Hi, I have lots of information on the King family, I am in London tonight but will be back in Motherwell tomorrow and will be in touch.
Lodger, how exciting! I look forward to picking your brains when you have a spare moment (no rush!). Thank you.
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Marriage for Alexander King & Mary Dick
08 Aug 1870, Shotts, Lanarkshire
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT1D-3QT
The marriage on SP will give ages, name both sets of parents, occupations, mothers maiden names, witnesses & addresses at time of marriage.
Annie
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So I have gathered bits together and this is what I have - newest first:
My father, Alexander Roy King
b 19-Aug-1931
William Dick King (my grandfather)
b 12-Jan-1887 Windmillhill House
m Ann Gregson Jones 06-May-1929 at Hope St Glasgow in presence of Thomas King (102 New City Road, Glasgow) & Elizabeth Jones. (24 Baird ? Glasgow) William residing at Janetta Place, Orchard St, Motherwell.
Father listed as Alexander King, Quarrymaster, mother Mary King nee McDonald Dick (both deceased)
d 28-Aug-1950 1301 Govan Road (cardiac failure)
Alexander King, Quarry Master
b ?
m Mary Dick (father James Dick) 08-Aug-1870 Marriage certificate unclear but says father Thomas King, Builder, mother Charlotte King nee Snell (? unclear)
d ?
Only death certificate I could find is for 01-Oct-1911 but says he was a hammerman & married to Ann someone, so I don’t think it’s the right Alexander
1891 census, Windmillhill House:
Alexander King, Head of house
Mary, wife
Children:
Thomas, 20 - Clerk
Margaret, 18
James, 15 - Clerk
Alexander, 13 - Scholar
John, 9
Robert, 7
Charlotte, 6
William, 4
Allan, 1
Barbara Penmar, 18 - servant
Thomas King, Brick builder
B ?
M Charlotte Snell (mother listed on Alexander’s marriage certificate, but death certificate says widower of Elizabeth Snell)
d 12-May-1885, 4 Brighton Terrace, Rothesay. Cirrhosis of liver. Lists father as James King, Contractor, & mother Catherine Clarke (both deceased). Informant Henry John King (son), Railway Hotel, Shotts.
That's as far as I have - I've downloaded valuation rolls from 1885 for Alexander King in Windmillhill Street which I'm looking at but confuses me a little, and think I have will or testament for Thomas King & Alexander King - I think these are correct because they name children who seem to fit in, but I haven't yet had a chance to look at them properly and work out if the dates are right. I'd like to do searches for Windmillhill Street in valuation rolls or censuses but can't seem to do that on Scotland's People and can't find Alexander King or William King in 1901 or 1911, so I'm feeling a bit stuck. My dad is now 84 and has dementia but he's really interested in this so I'm trying to find out as much as I can to keep him engaged.
Is there a good program to enter your family tree? I've tried to put information I have in Word and Excel but it doesn't really work and all these bits of paper are confusing me.
If anyone is researching the Kings, I am trying to attach the documents I have to save you money searching, but it won't let me post it if I do - any help how to do this?!
I really appreciate everyone's answers - I'm learning by the day, thank you!
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Hi SamK,
I hardly know where to begin but, 1st of all, I am not related in any way to the King's of Motherwell, I only live here, I don't, as they did, own half the town.
They were a prominent family in 19th century Motherwell and the business of James King & Sons was known throughout the country.
Alexander King who was married to Mary Dick was prominent enough to be mentioned in the 1899 - 1900 "History & Directory of Motherwell" as having died in 1897. The exact entry reads "18th January 1897, Alexander King, Windmillhill House, died". In that same directory his widow, "Mrs King" is listed as residing at Brandon House, Brandon Street.
There are a couple of trees on Ancestry.com that list this family and it may be worth while joining as you can build a tree there and keep it private. Be warned though, much of the information in some trees is either copied from others or guess work on the part of the compiler. Many mistakes are copied, so it's always best to do your own research and use Ancestry for pointers & hints.
Anyway, Alex's father was Thomas King, who was married to Charlotte Snell.
Thomas, according to a list of baptisms I have here, was baptised on 22nd August 1819, lawful son of James King & Catherine Clark, Motherwell. Thomas, as you know, died in Rothesay 1885.
Thomas was the youngest known child of James King & Catherine Clark, they had at least 10 children born between 1802 & 1819.
This James was known as "Homie" King or sometimes as "Cork" King.
According to the author, himself an Alexander King (one of the family), of the series of articles published for the Hamilton Advertiser newspaper and sold in book form in 1910, entitled "Motherwell 70 Years Ago & Now", James was given the name Homie when he was courting Catherine who, according to the author, lived on Home Farm somewhere in the direction of Hamilton but, as their Banns of marriage were actually called in the parish of Stonehouse (and of course Dalziel too) the farm may have been a little further away than Hamilton.
He was always going off to visit the "Home", so his friends began to call him Homie. The name Cork was applied to the master of any trade, in this case master mason. (Meaning he had a business and was an employer). He was also sometimes known as "Laird King", probably because he owned so many dwelling houses and businesses. His eldest son James was known as "Young Cork".
It would be worth your while to find a copy of "Motherwell Seventy Years Ago - And Now", as your family is much mentioned. It was published in 1910. It even mentions things like young Cork being a trumpet player in the town band and it tells of some of the projects carried out by the King business. It built the second railway in Scotland for example and it built the first stone railway viaduct in Scotland.
I will now give you some transcriptions of the King family gravestones, please remember that this is a huge family, living in and around the parish of Dalziel for at least 250 years, so relationships are not always easy to figure out.
There doesn't appear to be any mention of Alex King & Mary Dick but they may be in the family plot somewhere but not mentioned on the stones.
These gravestones are all in the old Dalziel Burial Ground at the river Clyde, in the modern-day North Lodge area of Motherwell. It is sometimes called The Manse Burial Ground and it was originally the churchyard of the ancient pre-reformation parish church which was demolished about 1783 (perhaps by King the Mason?) and a larger parish church built at Windmillhill (by King?). The old burial ground continued to be used by families who had plots there and was last used in the 1960s for cremation burials. It is now in a sorry state due to time and vandalism.
I have to continue in the next post as I've gone over the limit of 5500 characters!
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Continued ............
The following inscriptions are in a consecutive row against the west wall of the burial ground. On the right of the gate, apart from this 1st one which is inscribed onto the boundary wall.
(Brackets stand for unclear inscription or, for relationships to the person immediately before the bracket).
1. "James King died (1801)".
2. Large stone. "James Homie King, railway contractor, quarrymaster and builder died 8th March 1855. His wife Catherine Clark died 28th September 1841. Their son James died 1854 (his wife Marion Reid died 23rd January 1874, their daughter Marion died in girlhood, their daughter Catherine died 20th November 1918, their son James of Brandon House, quarrymaster and builder died 20th February 1881). (His son James of Fallside, quarrymaster and brick manufacturer died 20th March 1929).
That plot (or lair as we call them here) was owned, in 1929, by Mrs James King. James who was buried there in 1929 was aged 55 years. Catherine who was buried there in 1918 was aged 79 years.
3. "Erected by James and (.........) King in memory of their parents, (........................) and their mother Helen Hamilton who died 22nd August 1839 aged 83 years.
This stone is in very poor condition, the father's name is not legible at all and, although some trees on Ancestry give James' father as John, I am inclined to believe it was James.
4. "Archibald King JP born February 1835 died November 1910. His wife Mary Gillon born 17th November 1857 died 31st October 1915".
5. Inscription on the boundary wall - "Frances King".
6. "William King JP merchant and quarrymaster, provost of the burgh of Motherwell 1866 - 1877, died 28th May 1881 aged 57 years. His wife Helen Gourlie died 11th November 1891 aged 72 years. Their son William died 11th March 1857 aged 7 years. Their daughter Mary died 2nd March 1858 aged 5 years & 6 months. Their daughter Helen J. H. died 2nd April 1858 aged 1 year. Their daughter Catherine died 3rd April 1858 aged 3 years. Their son James died 27th December 1888 aged 42 years. Their son Walter G. died 8th April 1889 aged 40 years. Their son William died 14th October 1916 aged 57 years".
OK, that's all for now - but I'll be back as soon as I can.
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Great informative input Lodger.
Sam.........the death Lodger gave for James King (1855) is well worth downloading as it will have much extra info. than a death in any other year (the only year to include extras)
"James Homie King, railway contractor, quarrymaster and builder died 8th March 1855"
Annie
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I wonder if this is the same "Home Farm"?...
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41188436.html
A few bits & pieces here for reading here....
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h25/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h26/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01h27/
Annie
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Every large estate had a Home farm, the one mentioned in the previous post is in the parish of Lesmahagow, so not the one where Catherine Clark lived. As also stated, it will be well worthwhile to view the 1855 death certificate as it will contain a list of all known children both living and dead, any spouses living or dead, his place and year of birth if known to the informant and if not born in the parish, how long he has resided there.
Following on from the previous monumental inscriptions at Dalziel burial ground. There is another stone that may be of interest. Homie King had a brother by the name of Alexander. This man was at sea for many years and when he returned, Homie gave him a job in one of his quarries, probably at Windmillhill. Because he worked with stone, he always wore a pair of moleskin trousers and was known from then on as "Moleskin King". (This makes me think that there was more than one Alexander King in the village at that time, so to differentiate he was given this "bye-name" as they called it back then). Anyway, Homie also built a little row of single-story houses at the Calder bridge in Motherwell and gave the row to Moleskin, one house for him and he rented out the others. This row was always known as the Moleskin Row. My grannie had an aunt who lived there and she had a good memory of these houses, with rain barrels outside to catch water from the slated roofs.
Anyway, here is Moleskin's gravestone inscription - "Erected in memory of Alexander King and his wife Marion Boyce. Their daughter Mary McDonal King (wife of William Reid). Their son James died in infancy. Their son Thomas Hamilton King died 21st June 18(..) aged 70 years. (His wife Janet Brownlie died ............. aged 82 years".
According to my copy of the Burial Register for this plot, Janet Brownlie King was interred at a depth of 5 feet in August 1928 aged 92 years. She was interred in the "top" lair, the gravedigger's way of describing which compartment of the plot she was put into. "Top" would have been one of 3 or 4 lairs in the plot. I researched this branch of the King family many years ago for a lady in the USA and, as I never throw anything away, have other notes I made at the time.
The estate papers of the Hamilton's of Dalzell (Dalzell was the large estate, Dalziel was the parish) are now in the safe hands of the archivist at Motherwell Heritage Centre, 500 years of estate records that at one time, any old Tom, Dick or Harry was allowed to rake through. There are "bundles" of rental papers and here are some details, proof that the Kings were in Dalziel parish as far back as the mid 18th century and seem to have been at one time, all living around the area now known as Milton Street, (part of the original village) Milton = Milltown, the Mill was further along this street, situated on the river Calder. It still exists, much modified and rebuit after a bad fire in the late 19th century, it is now a small hotel and pub.
Taken from a bundle of rentals in the black deed box -
Alex King, Milltown paid half-year rent to Martinmas 1808. £27.10/-
William King, Motherwell Mill paid 1 year rent to Martinmas 1808, £75. He also paid property tax of £7.10/- which was deducted from his rent.
James King, mason paid half-year rent and feu to Martinmas 1808. £2.11.3d
Alex King in Milltown paid half-year rent to Martinmas 1811. £29.7.6d.
James King, mason paid 1 year rent to Martinmas 1811. £5.2.6d.
In another bundle of papers -
"2 feus of land near the cross (Motherwell Cross) date as far back as 1778 and 1781. They are granted to James King younger, mason at Kingston, a tack of property in Motherwell Muir is dated 1810".
I remember having a discussion with the lady from the States over "Kingston", she thought it referred to Kingston Jamaica. I wasn't so sure and now can't remember what the outcome was, sorry!
In the same bundle -
"Tack of land, one rood Scots, granted by General John Hamilton of Dalzell in favour of William King, tenant in Motherwell Mill, dated 12th February 1820".
Same bundle -
"Tack, between Archibald Hamilton esquire and James King, mason at Toddelburn, for building of house, 19 year lease. Dated 19th June 1767".
"Toddelburn" = Toadholeburn, was a small stream that ran into the river Calder at Coursington, which is all part of modern-day Motherwell. The Toddleburn was, in my late mother's childhood, a place where there were allotments for growing vegetables and where married men escaped for an hour or three (My grandfather and his elder brother being 2 of them)!
A tod is the old Scots word for a fox.
Same bundle -
"John King, tenant in Motherwell Mill , tack for the lands of Milton dated 17th May 1766".
"Tack between Colonel John Hamilton and John King in Motherwell Mill and William King his son there and Alexander King in Milton of Dalziel also his son, dated 1785".
I will continue in another post.
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Continued ..............
This is dated 1898 and is in the Dalzell papers, I didn't transcribe all of it.
"Thomas King residing at Ardglass, County Down, Ireland, heir at law of Thomas King, son of the late James King, builder, Motherwell. Discharge in favour of Miss Margaret and June Brock.
"Right of Pre-emption" dated 17th March 1898. It goes on about "Trust and disposition and Settlement executed by the late James King, builder, Motherwell, dated 26th February and recorded in the Sheriff Court books of Lanarkshire at Hamilton on 5th June both in the year 1855. The house at Windmillhill was sold in 1871 by Thomas King, son of James King. The Thomas King from Ardglass is the grandson of Homie.
1871 document -
"We, John Kay, formally Postmaster Motherwell, now Iron manager, Wishaw and James Davidson, grocer Motherwell and Archibald King, wright in Motherwell surviving accepting trustees and executers original and assumed of the late James King, builder Motherwell confirm to 1st a Trust Disposition and Settlement executed by him and dated 26th February 1855.
A deed of assumption dated 7th & 8th June 1871 granted by the said John Kay and James Davidson as trustees and executers forsaid in favour of the said Archibald King. James King directed his trustees, after payment of the legacies therin contained to convey, assign and make over to Margaret Brock and Jane or Jean Brock, both now milliners in Motherwell and Mary Ann Brock now deceased, all daughters of his late daughter Margaret King or Brock, and their heirs equally share and share alike that house and ground to the back and front, next to Dalziel church, sometime occupied by Archibald Summers and others.
Tack and lease dated 9th August 1851.
Bundle of rents in the Dalzell papers -
John, William and Alexander King, Motherwell Mill, £29.5.0d for 1785.
Bundle of Accounts Dalzell 1811.
John King, mason, accounts of sundries £17.7.6d
James King, mason, £5.2.6d
2 years interest to James King's brother-in-law, £8.16.0.
That's about it for now, if I find anything else I'll add it.
I have a list of baptisms, Banns of marriage and burials in the parish of Dalziel, up to 1819.
If you send me your email address by P.M. I can send it to you.
According to the 1878-79 Motherwell Directory, Thomas King & Co, builders had a quarry at Bellside. This is in Cleland, parish of Shotts. Perhaps Thomas and Mary lived in Cleland, where she originally came from? Cleland is only a couple of miles from Motherwell.
The Kings also owned Motherwell House which is now the Bentley Hotel, I'm sure if you Google it there will be a picture.
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Father listed as Alexander King, Quarrymaster, mother Mary King nee McDonald Dick (both deceased)
d 28-Aug-1950 1301 Govan Road (cardiac failure)
1301 Govan Road, Glasgow was the Southern General Hospital.
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Lodger wow!!
what a mass of information, great work, and deep research,here is my tiny contribution,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScn=dalziel&CScntry=50&CSst=0
"cant seem to reduce URL" but worth checking out.
Regards
Lud
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Another little parcel of tit-bits.
According to the 1922 Motherwell Directory -
KING C. (Beneficiary Orbiston St) Janetta Place, Orchard Street.
KING H. (Beneficiary Orbiston St) 9 Blackmoorfoot Road, Crossland Moor, Huddesfield. (England).
KING J.D. (Beneficiary Orbiston St) Clydesdale Distillery House, Wishaw.
KING Mrs M. Motherwell House, High Road.
KING R. (Beneficiary Orbiston St) Reith Cottage, Clyde Street.
KING W.G. (Beneficiary Orbiston St) Janetta Place, Orchard Street.
I can't really say what "(Beneficiary Orbiston St)" means but, could it be something to do with where Windmillhill House used to be? It was on Meadow Road, more or less behind what was then Dalziel parish church at Windmillhill. Nowadays, Orbiston Street runs parallel with Windmillhill St and Meadow Road runs off it at right angles. But I don't think Orbiston St was there before about 1880 - 1890ish. So Meadow Rd may have run up into Windmillhill St. (Lud, does this make sense to you?). Along the side of the church. This is where the Brock sisters inherited the house. Down the side of the church (according to Motherwell 70 years Ago and Now). Thomas King (married to Charlotte Snell) owned a lot of land around W/hill House and some of the houses in that little street (was it called Meadow Rd then?) were once his stables, he raised and trained race horses.
So, were all these people named above, in receipt of an income from the land, which by 1922 would have an awful lot of tenement houses on it. I can remember, back in the 1950s, (and I'm only 29) there were 2 very large tenements at the corners of Meadow Rd, one was nicknamed "The Rookery" and the other was "Paddy's Castle".
The King W. G. may really have been W.D. as this book is full of mistakes!
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According to the 1925 Directory for Motherwell, which is indexed by street, not surnames -
Janetta Place, Orchard St had 4 houses (so, probably a little sandstone tenement which must have been quite select and Orchard St was and still is, a beautiful street).
The householder of one of these houses (or apartments) was -
KING William D. Bank clerk.
In the 1925 Wishaw directory -
KING James D. Accountant, The Distiller's Co Ltd. 71 Glasgow Road.
Couldn't find Reith Cottage in the 1925 directory.
1925 for Motherwell House, High Road - Mrs Mary Scott or King.
In the 1911 Motherwell directory, which is more or less a list of householders -
KING Alexander C. Engineer. Motherwell House, High Road.
KING Mrs Janet. 85 Brandon St. (This may have been Brandon House, I'm not sure).
KING Thomas. Carriage Builder, 144 Orbiston St.
KING William. Writer, Archerfield, Douglas St.
Douglas St runs parallel to Orchard St and is also a lovely street. I think Archerfield is a Nursing Home now. A writer is a lawyer.
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Wow. Thank you all so much (especially you Lodger, what a fountain of information you are!). You have been so generous spending your time sharing your knowledge. It means a huge amount to me, as my father has Alzheimers and doesn't react much to anything usually, but when I have told him what I found so far, he showed so much interest and was fascinated. I will pull all of this together and show it to him. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Hi Sam,
I paid a visit to the Heritage Centre here at Motherwell today and copied this for you.
it is a contract between Hamilton of Dalzell and James King, mason to repair the garden wall at Dalzell House. Signed by James King and dated 19th June 1795. Too early for Homie King perhaps? It may be his father. If you can get a copy of the 1855 death certificate we will know.
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Hi Sam,
I paid a visit to the Heritage Centre here at Motherwell today and copied this for you.
it is a contract between Hamilton of Dalzell and James King, mason to repair the garden wall at Dalzell House. Signed by James King and dated 19th June 1795. Too early for Homie King perhaps? It may be his father. If you can get a copy of the 1855 death certificate we will know.
I have the death certificate, I think this must have been Homie's father as he was 75 when he died in 1855. Unfortunately the list of Homie & Catherine's children is hard to read and some illegible but I did decipher Margaret, Helen, James, Catherine, Alexander, Thomas (my great-great grandfather), Jean, John and William. I'll try to attach it if I can.
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Not the easiest list of children I've ever seen. Badly written and a lot of scoring-out. It may interest you to know that Alexander Whamond the registrar was also the parish schoolmaster! (He was also an author).
This is my version of the list, stating at the column on the left.
Margaret, dec(eased) at 52 in 1854.
Helen Hamilton dec(eased) at (?) in 1814.
James dec(eased) at 43 in 1848.
Catherine dec(eased) at 33 in 184(?).
Alexander dec(eased) in infancy.
M......... dec in infancy.
Alexander dec in infancy.
Alexander dec at 29 in 1854.
Jean 37.
Thomas 35.
John dec at 17 in 1840.
William 30.
A couple of interesting things about this certificate. The doctor was "S. Thomson". He was Samuel Thomson and he made a fortune as a landlord as the town grew in the 1860s. There was still a Dr Samuel Thomson in the town in the 1960s and possibly 70s, his grandson or great-grandson.
James Prentice was the parish sexton "keeper of the churchyards of Dalziel", 2 churchyards and he was one of a very long line of Prentices who were parish sextons in Dalziel. It was either this one or his son who was eventually sacked for drunkenness. (Drunk in charge of a graveyard!).
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In the center of the photograph is Windmillhill House, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell occupied by Thomas King (Quarrymaster). He owned a brickworks and quarry in the nearby village of Cleland. At the rear of the house were buildings used for stabling Mr. King’s horses. Later these erections were turned into dwelling houses. On the far right is the spire of Dalziel Parish Church (was it later re-named South Dalziel Parish church?), and you can see the tramway rails on Windmillhill Street. The New Century Theatre opened as a variety hall in 1902, and it seems to be on the left in the background. However it was on Windmillhill Street too. It seems Thomas King's house backed onto Windmillhill Street. If in this image the New Century Theatre is approximately behind Windmillhill House, then looking at old maps; I would say Mr. King's house would have to have been near the intersection between present day Oakfield Street and Windmillhill Street. Or certainly on the southern section of Windmillhill Street between present day Oakfield Street and Airbles Street.
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What a fantastic photograph, I've never seen a picture of Windmillhill Street looking like this.
The side street on the left must have been either Quarry St or perhaps Quarryhall St?
I recognise the big building at the top of the side street, it was still there in the 1950s and early 60s perhaps.
Well done Joseph Jackson!
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Not Quarry or Quarryhall St. According to King's "Motherwell Seventy Years Ago - And Now", it is Meadow Road (which still exists in a shortened version that begins up at the large building I mentioned, this is at Orbison Street).
According to King, 2 of the houses on Meadow Road were converted from stables belonging to Windmillhill House, they were occupied (in the 1840s & 50s) by William Faulds and William Smellie.
And, according to the author, the row of houses between Windmillhill House and the Church were occupied by the Kirkland, Rankin, Craigen and Brownlie families.
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Thanks for those great comments. Here's an advertisement from the company dated 1903.
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The text relates to the photo of Windmillhill House.
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Here's what the New Century Theatre, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell looked like.
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Just came across this old thread (obviously revived) & found it very interesting!
Great pic Joseph J.
From 'The text relates to the photo', I recognised the name Merry Street where my 2hd cousin (2 removes) was born 1893 (McKinnon family) ;)
Now gives me an idea of the area etc.
Thanks,
Annie
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Hello to everyone who has posted here. I am not a member of the King family but their association with the Scottish brick manufacturing industry of old interests me. I run the website www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk and I have a page dedicated to the Kings
https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/the-kings-brick-makers-of-auchinlea-bellside-and-greenhill/
If anyone has any further info on the brick manufacturing aspect then I would love to hear from them. I am also available on brickmarks@gmail.com
Does anyone have any relevant photos?
very best regards
Mark