Thomsons of Cargill, Perthshire

[dpearson]

I would be interested to hear from anyone who has connections with the Thomsons  from Cargill or the nearby village of Woodside.

My connection is via David Thomson 1804-1861 and his wife Mary 1809-1873.
David was a son of George Thomson and Jannet Fenwick.

David and his family were heavily involved in the timber industry. Was this the primary source of income for this area in the early 1800's?

Dave
(Sydney Australia)




 

[jatkirrie]

Dave Pearson
I have a complete family tree from Patrick Thomson and Margaret West who married in 1736 to the present.
Generation 3 indicates that George Thomson(b1763) married Janet Fenwick (don't have a date). Their first son David(1804-61) married Mary Thomson(1809-73) in 1831. They had 9 children.  The second son, also David(1835-92), was my great-grandfather.
There were 5 other sons James(b1831), William(1840), Thomas(b1842), George(b1847), and Charles(b1850) and presumably you are descended from one of them.
The elder David was "a sawyer and wood merchant, of Woodside,Cargill" and the younger "a sawmill manager, originally of Woodside" He moved around eastern Scotland and would seem to have been some sort of contractor who stayed in defferent places for about 2 years at a time.  What is interesting is that he moved his wife and growing family around with hame so his children were nearly all born in different places, unusual for the times.
As eastern Scotland by the 19th century was largely an improved arable farming area where indigenous forests had been removed centuries before, sawmillers would have been specialists either serving farmers or felling trees on estates to supply the construction industry.
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Jim Thomson, Thurso, Scotland

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[dpearson]

Thanks Jim