« Reply #8 on: Friday 18 August 17 12:54 BST (UK) »
Hi all,
anne_p I hadn't thought of looking for the siblings on the marriage certificate, maybe now I can find a baptism record if I look for a John, Robert and Margaret Pollock with the same parents.
and Rena I'm not sure if they are related to those families, would yarn merchants and woollen manufacturers be affluent? I can't tell by woollen manufacturer if it means he just operates the machine or if he owns a manufacturing company.
Maybe I should try finding some probate records for the siblings and others, if they had a lot of assets it could indicate more?
Exceedingly well off families - if you do more surfing you'll see the ones I illustrated owned houses, whereas ordinary mortals rented a house or just one room and maybe two rooms as their family home.
When a family owned a successful company they needed to send their representatives further afield to open up more trade. This could be the case with the specific ancestors you're currently trying to discover more information about.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke