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Brewery c.1850
« on: Wednesday 04 October 06 19:15 BST (UK) »
Would there have been many breweries in Dumfries c.1850?  My g.g.grandfather I have just discovered was a brewer and his name is Joseph Harper.
Thanks for any help.

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Re: Brewery c.1850
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 November 06 17:25 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,

I'm not sure if there would have been directories for Dumfries at that point.  You could always try the Dumfries FHS website at http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/ as that might have some useful info or links.

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Clare
ELLIOT, CROZIER, HAY, AITCHISON, COWAN - Roxburghshire
BETT - Kinross-shire, Fife and Glasgow
CHAMBERS, BRUFF, WESTMACOTT - Glasgow
And many, many more...

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Re: Brewery c.1850
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 November 06 19:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi Clare,
Will try the site you gave me and thank you.

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Re: Brewery c.1850
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 17 December 06 16:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Pimms,

Just read your post.  Not sure if you have found any info, but there were a few distilleries in and around Dumfries in the 19th century.  One, located at Distillery Farm, outisde Annan - found in the County of Dumfries was operational until the 1914.  It's listed and a building at risk (refer to)

http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/view.asp?SCT+Ref+No=2949

Local museums should help you too.

http://www.annan.org.uk/museums_exhibitions/index.html

http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/dumfmuse.html

Happy hunting.

Regards

Kojak
Green, Gibson, Ross, Telfer, Pattie, Jardine, Hay, Kennedy, Dickson, in Dumfriesshire esp Applegarth, Lochmaben and Kirkcudbright

Thom, Raeburn, Grant and Allan (Mainly Banffshire - 16th-19th century but also old Aberdeenshire) as well as having an interest in Cruickshank (in Banffshire circa mid 19th century)
Cormack & McBain in Ross and Cromerty and Banffshire/Aberdeenshire pre 20th century

McClelland, MacNeill (Argyll, Scotland and Northern Ireland), MacCully, Carson, Northern Ireland

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Re: Brewery c.1850
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 17 December 06 20:32 GMT (UK) »
only 2 joseph harper's on the 1851 census, do you already have the details?

Joe
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