Not Thompson it's Jamieson

[runner]

Hi Duckweed

Another Butinsky here!
You say   

you do get travelling farm workers too I suppose.

Travellers and itinerant families from Ireland were the mainstay of the Scottish agricultural process right up to the 1950's. When larger fields were created to take the big machines.
Families would move to an area for the planting, move on to another area where there was an early sowing for 'singling'  and weeding, move on again for the early pea picking, move up to Perth area for the berry harvest then back down to Lothian or Ayrshire for the 'Tattie howkin'.
Their children might be in the local school for a month or six weeks till the family moved on. Some farmers kept bothies for the family to live in. The same families would return year on year.
Some Jamiesons in the Kirkcudbrightshire area were settled, and wealthy farmers over a long span of years.

Russell

[duckweed]

That's interesting.  Have you details of any  such Jamiesons  in Kirkudbrightshire or nearby counties? 

[runner]

Hi Duckweed
Sorry it has taken a few days to get back to you with my answer !

For info about wealthy farming Jamiesons look at a previous post
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,167672.msg799461.html#msg799461

Richard Jamieson had brothers Robert and William who were also farmers. Robert went out to Australia and set up farms out there and his descendants still live out there.

Russell