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I am delighted to have found these posts about William Cleghorn. I have just discovered that my g grandfather's sister was married to William Cleghorn Jnr. She was Jannie Reid Whitson. I have a copy of William Jnr's birth certificate stating his father as William Cleghorn, profession confectioner, his mother as Elizabeth Hogg Cleghorn, nee Matthew. William Jnr's date of birth is January 20th 1857. I also have a marriage certificate for William Jnr and Jeannie. They married on 13 September 1882. Jeannie was resident at Rowan Bank, Alyth and William was resident at Logie House Dundee.

Question 1. If I am correct, then does this means that the Mrs Cleghorn of Maggie's diary's (see previous posts) was actually Jeannie Reid Cleghorn (nee Whitson)

Question 2. Where is the information about William Cleghorn Senior and his rise to fortune in Dundee?

I am very interested to find out all about William Cleghorn sir because Jeannie's brother, James Freer Whitson, my g grandfather inherited a lot of money following the death of his father, James Whitson,  at Bardmony Bank Alyth and he went to New Zealand to farm. Sadly, he lost his money and came back with tail between his legs but William Cleghorn, his brother-in-law gave him a job working in a mill. From what I have read on this site, William Cleghorn sir was  somewhat amazing, having come from illegitimacy to mill ownership but please can someone point me to the references for this? I would love to read about him

Many thanks

Angie