Avonbridge/Stein

[Seoras]

I look forward to that James,and Anne thank you for the link.I am settled with a cuppa and about to have a stroll.

George.

[Seoras]

Mosstrooper,Hi James,I have now traced much more info on my great grandmother Elizabeth Stein,Jimmy's mother(not to be confused with his wife also Elizabeth Stein)He was not as I thought an only child.He had by her first husband two brothers,Hugh and John and two sisters,Elizabeth and Robina who was born 19 days after her husband died from pneumonia.He also had a younger sister Jane from her second marriage.This Jane married a Crawford Allingham from Torpichen in 1918.James had at least 7 children,Thomas,George,Elizabeth,Rachel,Grace,James and finally my mother Jane.I am wondering if this James is the Jimmy people remember or is it my grandfather.

George.

[Skoosh]

George,  came across this when searching for something else, a marriage, John Stein, Uphall, West Lothian, to Barbara Chapman, 1st July, 1853.

skoosh.

[Seoras]

Ooh,I will check that out Skoosh,my great grandmother had an elder brother called John.According to my sister,I am related to the former footballer Colin Stein and possibly former Scotland manager Jock Stein.However she may be having delusions or halucinations as she also reckons our Wardlaw line are decended from nobility whereas I can only find them digging coal 

George.

[Skoosh]

Goldstein, Rubenstein, oy vey!

skoosh.

[Seoras]

Nope,can't be my John Skoosh,he wasn.t born till 1861.I will have a look anyway could be a link.Where is Uphall? Ooh and it seems I could have been a bit hasty about the Wardlaws just digging coal...................some were digging ironstone.

George.

[Seoras]

Skoosh or Mosstrooper,do either of you know what the mill at Avonbridge was producing and when it closed,well and opened if possible.

George.

[mosstrooper]

That area is countryside, no industry of any kind apart from Coal Mining, the mills would be
Corn Grinding Mills I think. Some Lint was grown in the area and used for weaving.


http://www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk/home/index.php?id=60
James.

[Seoras]

Good evening James,I hope you are well.Thank you for the link,I will spend some time on there I think.

addition. James thanks for that link,very interesting,especially the photo of the brickworks at the end.I am pretty sure my father worked there for a while.

George.