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Title: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Wednesday 12 November 08 18:50 GMT (UK)

Hi,
       I have an OPR birth record for Robert Wilson East Kilbride 1825 . There is a name that I cannot decipher which I think may be the place or farm that they lived, can anyone help out

Thanks Laura

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: hume on Wednesday 12 November 08 20:27 GMT (UK)

Hi Laura,

Welcome to RootsChat!

Hmmm, I think you have misread! Tinnoch (the last word on that line) is Elizabeth's maiden name.

Another daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth named Jean was christened 1823 in East Kilbride. The IGI entry confirms mother's name.

hume24 :)

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:01 GMT (UK)

Hi again,
                 yes I have the Tinnoch but it is the word above that beginning with a B , maybe Birkenhill or hall  .

Laura

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: apanderson on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:01 GMT (UK)

Hi Laura,

Welcome from me too!  :)

Is it the word at the right hand side just above Tinnoch which says something like Brank......hall?

I'm not familiar with that area but hopefully someone will be along soon who has the answer.

Anne

Sorry! Computer is going as slow as a week in the jail tonight

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: Jassy on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:04 GMT (UK)

Hi Laura
I think it's probably Brancumhall,all built up
with houses now.

Janet

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: hume on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:04 GMT (UK)

Oops!!  :-[  :-[ I totally missed that word, taking it to be from the previous baptism. The name is Brancumhall or, as spelt in the image, Brankumhall.

hume24

Janet posted first. :)

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:10 GMT (UK)

Thanks for the welcomes and the help. Does anyone know what that would have been around 1825 was it a hamlet or a farm or was there an actual hall there where my ancestor may have worked ?

    Laura

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: Jassy on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:26 GMT (UK)

Hi Laura
Sorry,but I got that wrong about it having been built up,it's
a recreation ground.Go here and see.


http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/portal/page/portal/SLL_WEBSITE/Home/Outdoor_Recreation/Brancumhall_Recreation_Area


Janet

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: hume on Wednesday 12 November 08 21:45 GMT (UK)

Hi Janet,

You are correct when you said it was built up with houses! There are playing fields around it though. On the site of Brancumhall, there is Brancumhall Road, which leads onto a few housing estates.

I've attached an old map with the farm/estate on it.

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Wednesday 12 November 08 22:11 GMT (UK)

Hi,
          Thanks for that now I can pinpoint the area. My great great great grandparents Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Tinnoch had their first 4 children in Galston Ayrshire (Andrew ,Janet,James and Margaret)where Andrew was a farmer they then appear to have moved to East Kilbride between 1815 and 1818 and had a further 4 children(Elizabeth,William, Jean and Robert) but none of the OPR's give Andrew's profession when he has moved to East Kilbride . I have no idea why an Ayrshire farmer would have moved moved from Ayrshire any suggestions ? I cannot find any  matches by the 1841 census although I pick up Andrew the son my great great grandfather from 1851 census onward .

Laura

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: sancti on Thursday 13 November 08 00:09 GMT (UK)

The buildings shown on the map were still showing on the 1935 map. It looks like there are houses built on that spot now.

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: cladds on Thursday 20 November 08 18:06 GMT (UK)

 :) Hello my name is Christopher Ladds and I am a local historian for the Calderwood/Calderglen/St Leonards area of East Kilbride. Pretty much all that is already said on this thread on Brankumhall Farm is all that is known. The farm was at least as early as 1747, although it is likely to have been one of the more ancient landholdings in the area as the name is ancient Welsh in origin. An ancient Welsh tribe known as the Damnoni inhabited this district in the ancient past. ^(*)  Happy Hunting!  ;D



^(*) Moderator Comment:  some personal information concerning living people has been removed.

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Thursday 20 November 08 22:27 GMT (UK)

Hi Christopher,
                             thank you very much for that information it is very interesting. I am in Aberdeenshire so would not be impossible to visit some time .

Laura

Title: Re:john hislop Tarbolton Schoolmaster 1795
Post by: david66 on Saturday 09 May 09 17:11 BST (UK)

I am a direct relation of John HISLOP & his wife Agnes Hamilton ( born 1774 SANQUHAR). They Wed in TARBOLTON in 1795 and my ancester is James Hislop born around 1807/8. I am starting to trace Agnes mother Janet McLonie from Sanquhar & father John Hamilton from Sanquhar ?   ;D

regrads David

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: loz_scotland on Monday 11 May 09 03:07 BST (UK)

Hi David,
              Great to hear from you   yes James was born 20/02/1807  I am a direct descendant of his sister Margaret who was born in 1809. I have the marriage for Agnes and John in Tarbolton 1795 but did not know Agnes was born in Sanquar, what led you to that ?

Title: Re: East Kilbride ?
Post by: jjuliam on Tuesday 25 August 09 14:47 BST (UK)

Hi, I am descended from James Hislop, John and Agnes's son. His son Mungo, went to live in New Zealand. I have some information about this family, if you are interested. Where do you live? I currently live in Australia. Regards, Julia