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Dunbartonshire / Re: Glassworkers in Dumbarton
« on: Sunday 03 November 13 21:04 GMT (UK) »Dr D, have you got this booklet "The Glassworkers of Scotland" by Diana Connell, its available from the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Unit, Unit 5, 22 Mansfield Street, Glasgow, G11 5QP any family in particular....Skoosh..
Thanks for posting. this resource. I'm looking to find whether or not my 4th-great grandfather, Daniel Robinson, came from Dumbarton. The earliest record I can find him in is the 1810 US Federal Census in Berlin, NY amongst the workers and managers of the Rensselaer Glass Factory. Daniel was a glass blower as indicated in the ledgers of the Bristol Glass Company of Woodstock, NY (where he worked after his stint at Rensselaer). As the legend goes, William Richmond, superintendent of the Rensselaer Glass Factory, travelled to Dumbarton in 1806 disguised as a beggar with an eye patch and bagpipes. He discreetly persuaded glass workers to return to the United States with him to work at the Rensselaer Glass Factory. The workers were smuggled aboard a ship and hid their tools (since it was a penal offense for glass workers to leave the U.K.) Well, the dates line up and it all makes sense.
My webpage about Daniel is at https://sites.google.com/site/robinson1857/daniel-robinson