« Reply #21 on: Sunday 13 May 12 18:16 BST (UK) »
Don't want to seem gloomy but if you've got occupations it's often interesting to look at what they eventually died of- some ailments can be linked to the working conditions, I fear.
alexander smith was a quarrierand later when his father could no longer work as a quarrier he employed him as hired help to stack and move rocks around muirhis grandfather died because he set the charges and was not careful enough one day.hugh helped his son alexander and died of congestion dust in his lungs,and died in the poorhouse alexander tried to pay for his fathers keep buy eventually had to rely on the counties help and he was the one who found his father when he died.
but by the time his daughter muriel married he was a builderand no longer a mason, if you think about it masons were needed to make window sills in those days,and i think that is how my grt gran janet met george blanchard steele because of her fathers association with them through work.
it is only a theory but i cannot see how they would have met otherwise
marcie dean
Scotlandorkney flett bell, strickland laird traillcalqahoun.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'mayscott and anderso, craig , forbes taggart Kirkwood, milloy and steel apart ftom others which are numerous, graham mcilroy. stewart.brown battonisle of sku rothsay etc.
searl rogers sutherland
Edinburgh/Aberdeen:portsea marsh,brownwhittcomb and others. to numerous to mentionweymouth frank. Laidlaw,Brown,Dean//Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston belgium loquet
