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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Uphall north, Broxburn. Can anyone read this street name
« on: Monday 16 May 11 14:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all for the feedback on our new scottishshale.co.uk. website. The "contact us" feature now works as intended...!
We're at the start of a very ambitious project to make as many of the museum's collection, archives and associated knowledge freely available to all on line. Apologies that some features of the site are not yet operational. We'd be delighted to do our best to answer specific research enquiries by e-mail, and would welcome any new volunteers to assist in the marathon task of scanning, transcription and data entry that lies ahead of us.

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: colligan family search
« on: Wednesday 23 March 11 11:51 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Monica!

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Scotland Resources / Scottish Shale Oil Industry Records
« on: Wednesday 23 March 11 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
The Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry is currently transcribing the surviving employment and housing records from various Scottish shale oil companies, in and around West Lothian. 

The project and new website is still in the early stages of development but the few records that have been transcribed so far can be searched on www.scottishshale.co.uk. 


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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: colligan family search
« on: Tuesday 22 March 11 11:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Heather

I am currently transcribing company records from our Scottish shale oil museum collection and have just come across the name Meredith Colligan in a tenancy book as living at No 46 Pumpherston / Work Rows, Mid Calder, West Lothian from 04/12/88 to 04/08/1890.  These houses were owned by the Pumpherston Oil Company to house their workforce of shale miners and oil workers. 

Given that Meredith Colligan is , I think?, an unusual name, and that he worked as a miner in and around the West Lothian area I thought I would just drop you a line, particulary as the dates fall between any census information you may have.

We are in the early stages of our project, some of our transcribed records are available to search on our website  (www.scottishshale.co.uk) at the moment but as I have only just entered Meredith's record just now you will not find it yet.  It may be that we find other records as the project progresses.

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