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There must have been something in the water in Duntocher! My Granny too had one of her two illegitimate children fathered by a Duntocher man whose family owned a Fruit/Grocery shop there.She hailed from Old Kilpatrick.He did put his name on the Birth certificate.

I think that is an excellent description of the "Model".
My Great-Uncle was living in the Benbow in the 1920's after his Father died-he was only 18.At one point he was living along with others in the Old Kilpatrick hills in a tent.This was to beat the dreaded Means Test-his Mother & father were seperated & both in ill -health if his wage was seen as coming into either household what meagre help they got would have gone-an apprentice didn't make much anyway.

I think going by my family who are buried there from the 1870's onwards   many lived in OK & where members of the Parish Church or the Barclay Church also in OK.
The others were from Dalmuir/Clydebank.I am also planning to join my kin there but not for a long long time either.

I grew up adjacent to the "Tanks" at Dalnottar & both my parents lived through the Blitz as children.I have heard many tales of those nights.
My Mum's family were evacuated as their home was bombed but luckily they did return to the same one after the War & I was born there several years later.
My Granny lived in Burns St at the time & told me many tales of what happened.
My Mother's eldest brother was 14 at the time & would on occasions help his Father with his APW with his duties including removing an incendiary device which had landed on a neighbour's bed.
My Grandfather had went out to view the destruction with strict orders that everybody was to remain in the shelter until his return.
Uncle Tommy being a boy took no heed & headed to have a look.
He returned shortly after looking pale & sick.It was many months before he told my Mother of the horrible sights he had seen-bodies laid out on the street,body parts etc.
Yet my Mother says her parents made them feel so secure that she was never afraid & that her Father managed to guide them through Dalmuir to the evacuation point without seeing anything too traumatic apart from the bombed buildings.

I am going to take a wee trip up to Scotland later this month & as Dalnottar is a hop & a skip from Mum's I will be happy to take photos of the Memorial if anybody wants.