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My paternal grandfather and my father lived at 7 Manderston Place, Shottstown.  My grandfather, James Neil, died in 1929.  My grandmother was rehoused to 6 Carlops Avenue when the Council built that estate (scheme) in the 1930s.  She had five sons, my father being the middle one.  He married in 1938 and I was born above Peggy Dodds's sweetshop at Christmas.  The shop was taken over by the Baird family and they also owned the garage next door on the corner of John Street and Carlops Road, just a hundred yards or so south-west of Shottstown.  None of my forebears worked for Shotts Iron Company and I believe that after the Mauricewood Disaster the houses were let out to any takers.  The photo gives an idea of how it was around the end of the 19th century

I can understand how you feel.  A few years ago a friend of mine started out along this now familiar path.  He found origins in a small village in Norfolk where there were four families, all with the same name, related distantly enough to interbreed legally!  And interbreed is what they did.  No they weren't called Rabbett, though they should have been!
Allan

Ah well, Meg, it didnae cost a fortune!!  Now the trick is working out the bits that you wrote!!
I also bought an excellent CD (below) about the Roslin Works.  Unfortunately none of the photos within are copyable.  There's a mention of a Barclay but no indication if he was one of the workers who commuted daily from the Cauthers after Camilty closed.  It has proved to be a double-edged sword as there is another family Neil, living almost cheek by jowl with my lot and working at the Poothermill.  Lots of Jameses on both sides. One Sam was killed in 1890 in an explosion that took another five besides him.  He may be the common denominator.

Topic's a long time dead, but had to notify that S R Crockett, a Minister of the South Kirk in Penicuik, was a personal friend of the author Robert Louis Stevenson and somewhere I have read some of the correspondence between the two of them.