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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Linlithgow Tanneries / Bootmakers
« on: Saturday 22 September 18 19:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi.  I am booked to go to Linlithgow in a few weeks. Can anyone help with information so I make the most of my trip.  Do we know which church the Meeks went to and so where they are buried?

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Linlithgow Tanneries / Bootmakers
« on: Monday 20 August 18 16:55 BST (UK)  »
Bill66.  Wow indeed that must be the Walter Bellis as I thought he was a JP.  Many thanks.  When John Meek came to Liverpool (for the reason you give, no doubt) he met and married Isabella Moffat who was from Haiti but of British parentage.  They had two children, Elise and Kenneth. Sadly Isabella died around 1915 of 'consumption' and my grandfather remarried in 1917 and had two daughters with his new (and much younger) wife, Ethel.

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Linlithgow Tanneries / Bootmakers
« on: Monday 20 August 18 16:20 BST (UK)  »
So our great grandfathers were brothers. My great grandfather, Alexander did pass on his boot manufacturing business to his eldest son, William. William married Meenie and had a son, Alexander and 2 daughters on the 1901 census.
Of the 2 other sons who came to Liverpool (where I was born and brought up) it seems the Meek name has died out. My grandfather, John had 4 children, just 1 being a boy, my uncle Ken.  Ken married and had 2 daughters.
Information on the third son has been given by Tormohun from New Zealand whose email I would welcome if poss.
Thanks to Bill66 who knows about Bellis and Meek.  My interest is knowing why my grandfather came to Liverpool and who was Walter Bellis

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Linlithgow Tanneries / Bootmakers
« on: Sunday 19 August 18 16:12 BST (UK)  »
my info does not go back too far.  As far as I know it was solely a bootmakers in Linlithgow.  I believe they made a lot of boots for men in the cavalry and that this trade dwindled towards the end of the 19th century. My great grandfather, Alexander Millar Meek had 6 children but did any of them continue in the boot and shoe business.  He and Mary had 3 boys and 3 girls.  2 of the boys John(my grandfather) and Alexander (grandfather of Tormohun!) left Linlithgow for Liverpool.  The eldest boy was William.  Did he stay and continue in the trade?

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: Linlithgow Tanneries / Bootmakers
« on: Friday 17 August 18 21:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi tormohun from new Zealand. My mother spoke of you.  She was born Ethel Jean Gibb Meek in Liverpool in 1918 and died only recently 2013.  I believe we have the same great grandfather, Alexander Meek, a boot maker from Linlithgow.  My grandfather, John, left Linlithgow for Liverpool, possibly before your grandfather who was several years younger. Grandfather John seemed to set himself up virtually immediately with a Walter Bellis and formed Bellis and Meek, wholesale fruit and veg. This company was in existence by 1900.
I am looking into the Meek family history but have so many gaps


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