From Paisley to Glasgow

[trish251]

That diary is a dream come true.  Wish I had something similar.  What a keepsake!

Hi Dave

I assume you are speaking of the one I linked to above - that is truly an amazement - and I was dumbstruck to find my gg grandmother's birth when it was pointed out to me by a distant relative - I had spent a small fortune at SP to prove there was no church record of her birth!

Hi DDJ

Thanks for the link - I have been there in the past & always remember it when someone points me there again - a very worthwhile site

And thanks again all - I am now up to date with the trip from Paisley into Glasgow and onto the boat  Probably my next mystery is deciding who/what headed them this way in the first place - the Rev Dunmore-Lang is no doubt a possibility!

Trish

[pk]

Hi Trish
The Vulcan still exists and is on show outside the Summerlee Heritage Centre in Coatbridge . It was built in 1818 and there were plans to rebuild  it. You can find a picture of it here.
  www.scotlandforvisitors.co.uk/oxnew2.php
If that link fails a simple google search " vulcan summerlee" will find it.
Researching Peacocks in Paisley any idea who Mr Peacock was?
Regards

Grahame

[sancti]

Hi pk

I'm not sure that this is the same Vulcan as mentioned.

There is a record of a steam ship Vulcan sinking at the mouth of the Boyne river in Ireland 1865

http://www.irishwrecksonline.net/Lists/LouthListA.htm

[daval57]

Grahame,
For a 1st post on RC, I reckon you might take the bucket and win a cigar!
That's amazing if it is the correct one.

2 questions....
How did you find this forum at the right time?
Are you interested in genealogy? or is it just luck? that Trish mentioned The Vulcan?

Excellent post!

Sacti, it is almost certainly the one I referred to earlier in the thread.  Whether it's the one that the family sailed on?

Dave

[pk]

Hi
Possibly I've been a wee bit hasty, have found this which seems to indicate this Vulcan only worked on the Canals.That will be the reason it is in Summerlee on the Monklands Canal

"In 1818, Sir John Robison had an iron vessel (which he had designed in 1816) built for the passenger-traffic on the Forth and Clyde Canal, by Mr. Thomas Wilson, at Faskine, on the Monkland Canal, some six miles from Glasgow. She was called the "Vulcan," and was 61'x 11' × 4' 6"
I am interested in genealogy but tend to only browse the boards unless there is somethingI'm fairly sure of. In this case no bucket or cigar!!

[daval57]

Grahame,
Yer no hasty at a!

That's the reference I jumped in with earlier.  Maybe we both reached the same, probable, but probably wrong conclusion, possibly!

Anyway, I'm still intrigued as to how you found the thread?




 

[trish251]

Hello Grahame & welcome to RootsChat

Sadly I can tell you little more about Mr Peacock. He was obviously known to my folks - and was walking on the riverbank near Glasgow in the early evening of 1st August 1833. My folks were Robert and Elizabeth Miller (nee Muir) & their 6 children - the eldest missing a baptism record, the next child 1823 baptised in Middle Church, Paisley, the remainder in Low Church, Paisley.  There is no further mention of Mr Peacock.

Thanks all - for even more information - that picture site would be really good it it didn't hit my screen with so many ads! I assume it has been decided that this was not the Vulcan that went to Liverpool? In the picture it doesn't seem quite large enough - there were a number of folks & much luggage on board.

Dave - the picture you gave of the Harbour - would that be the same ship - it appears much larger, I thought that was my Vulcan?

Trish

[daval57]

Alas Trish, it's just a general view of The Broomielaw.

It's so long ago as well, I can't remember the name of the ship..... I was just annoyed at the length of the queue!

[trish251]

Alas Trish, it's just a general view of The Broomielaw.

It's so long ago as well, I can't remember the name of the ship..... I was just annoyed at the length of the queue!

Ah laddie - you do lift the spirit  even if it's the wrong boat ship 

Trish