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TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« on: Sunday 03 September 06 05:39 BST (UK) »
Why not ...a little side-step in the dance with my ancestors ::)

Isabella McMurray, daughter of John McMurray and Isabella Shaw, married John Tweedie June 30, 1854. in Rerrick Parish.  John  Tweedie was previously married to Jane Smith, who died at Stockmoss Smithy on 4 March 1853, age 24 years.

Stockmoss Smithy is still there. Tumble down sheds where one imagines the 'smithy' work took place; a 'compact' , dirty whitewash, double story house, neglected, and 'sad', situated just off a narrow tarred lane in God's Own County ..... Daffodils were blooming in the early spring when I (a McMurray decendant) visited for the first time in April 2006. Isabella died of TB (Pthisis) in 1984.

I keep trying! Is there anyone researching the Tweedie family and/or kin? Does anyone know anything of the history of Stockmoss Smithy?

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Scatza
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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 September 06 05:41 BST (UK) »
oooops! isabella Tweedie MS McMurray died in 1884, not 1984 :-[
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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 20 April 08 21:05 BST (UK) »
I too am a descendant of Isabella. Her daughter Elizabeth had an illegitimate daughter, Isabel Margaret, who was my grandmother.
At the moment I have stopped looking after the 1901 census which shows William as the head of the family sharing the house with his sister Isabella, an apprentice and his niece Mary who was known to me as Aunt Mary although she was in fact a cousin of my Granny's.
I will keep looking but as I'm quite new to this I am not sure of the best places to look.
Bye
Eye

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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 13 May 08 21:24 BST (UK) »
I have some very good friends actually coming to dinner on Saturday evening. The "gentleman" has often laughed with me when discussing family history and said that his grandmother was a Tweedie from Dumfries and Galloway.  He is not yet retired so is not so inspired to research just yet. I am ever hopeful though.

Maybe, I will endeavour to extract some facts on Saturday evening and then ask for help on this link! He is a little reluctant as he thinks that they were all thieves, gypsies and vagabonds but so were my ancestors too !

Hope you have further success both Scatza and Eye.

Judy
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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 14 May 08 09:11 BST (UK) »
A nice picture of the lane leading from Stockmoss Smithy by Chris Newman at www.geograph.org.uk/reuse.php?id=714291  :)

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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 14 May 08 14:45 BST (UK) »
It looks as though there are more of us out there!

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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 October 08 19:39 BST (UK) »
Hi I have just discovered this site
I am descended From David Tweedie born 1840 my Great Grandfather he was James's son and brother to John.

I have just completed the full details of all the Tweedie's at stocksmoss from James 1824 with his 13 children, handing over to John, two wives, and 9 children about 1846 ending with William, Johns son death in 1904. I have recently visited Stocksmoss smithy which is a restored house with the smithy still evident. The last blacksmith Left in1966.

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Re: TWEEDIE of Stockmoss Smithy
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 October 08 22:24 BST (UK) »
I'm the great, great granddaughter of John. He was my grandmother's grandfather and she grew up at Stockmoss Smithy, with her cousins Emma (or it may have been Emily) and Mary along with some of John's children.
It would be good to compare notes so feel free to email me at *
I have a tree on Ancestry which you are welcome to look at.
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Eileen Albiston
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