Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: Episcopalian Church near Linlithgow c. 1840  (Read 5106 times)

Offline Skoosh

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 5,736
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Episcopalian Church near Linlithgow c. 1840
« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 November 14 11:35 GMT (UK) »
Chris, my own folk were bootmakers in Linlithgow, the town supplied boots to the army & navy. The government contract was lost in the 1870/80s and the town went into decline, tanners, bootmakers & nailmakers thrown out of work.

Skoosh.

Offline DiGi

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 49
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Episcopalian Church near Linlithgow c. 1840
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 07 January 15 22:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi

You might get some useful information from West Lothian Family History Society [www.wlfhs.org.uk.]  You could visit their website.

DiGi
West Lothian: Grant, Webster, Lowrie;  Fife:  Innes, Scotland, Wardlaw;  Northumberland: Armstrong, Gillings, Blenkinsop, Latimer, Shields;  Cumbria: Pearson, Gasgarth, Gibson, Rudd;  Kent: Cross, Atkins, Saunders, Sharp;  Norfolk: Bristow, Gillings, Birchall

Offline ThrelfallYorky

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,587
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Episcopalian Church near Linlithgow c. 1840
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 08 January 15 15:31 GMT (UK) »
So there were a load of boot/shoe makers in the area of Linlithgow in mid 1800s?That could explain why I've found a load in my Linlithgow Downie/Bowie ancestry!! I'd wondered why there were so many.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
Pages: 1 [2]