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Cavan / Re: Blackstocks from Cavan?
« on: Monday 09 March 09 19:50 GMT (UK) »
Jeannie
Trish is a descendant of William Blackstock and I am descended from James. My gg grandmother was Sarah Blackstock, daughter of James and Margaret, who married Robert Edgar. William Blackstock died 13th May 1877 in Kirkcolm.
Quite a few of the Blackstock family moved up to Whiteinch in Partick, Glasgow from the late 1850's on and lived pretty close by to each other. In the 1871 census for Lochheads Back Land in Whiteinch, Peter Maitland, labourer in shipyard is listed along with his family. HIs sons John and James are listed as Ship Carpenter and Ship Carpenter apprentice respectively. Lodging with the family are two other apprentice ship carpenters, one of whom is James Thomson. So it would seem he married the landlady's sister!
They all lived round the corner from the BarclayCurle Shipyard which was fairly new at that time, and the whole neighbourhood was getting pretty crowded with all the incoming labour. There 9 people living in the Maitland house in 1871 and the house is recorded as only having 2 rooms which had windows. 9 people, 2 rooms in a back street in Whiteinch. A far cry from the open farmland of their youth really.
The parish record you mention is actually a record of the couple declaring to the minister and the kirk session that they had been married by Mr McKean in Donaghadee in the June of the previous year i.e. 1826. There are numerous such entries in Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Sranraer. A lot of couples said they were married in Ireland. Whether they actually were or not is another matter...I imagine they pitched up in Kirkcolm either already having their first child Margaret, or expecting one, and they have been required to account for themselves.
Would it be possible to see a scanned image of the receipt/note in the bible? It's very interesting. The Spratts were clock and watchmakers in Saintfield, Co Down, and James Caffrey was the eventual husband of James' niece Isabella, one of his sister Nancy's illegits. It'd be fascinating to know how it came to be in James Blackstock's bible. James Caffrey would have been about 16 in 1836.
Sheila
Trish is a descendant of William Blackstock and I am descended from James. My gg grandmother was Sarah Blackstock, daughter of James and Margaret, who married Robert Edgar. William Blackstock died 13th May 1877 in Kirkcolm.
Quite a few of the Blackstock family moved up to Whiteinch in Partick, Glasgow from the late 1850's on and lived pretty close by to each other. In the 1871 census for Lochheads Back Land in Whiteinch, Peter Maitland, labourer in shipyard is listed along with his family. HIs sons John and James are listed as Ship Carpenter and Ship Carpenter apprentice respectively. Lodging with the family are two other apprentice ship carpenters, one of whom is James Thomson. So it would seem he married the landlady's sister!
They all lived round the corner from the BarclayCurle Shipyard which was fairly new at that time, and the whole neighbourhood was getting pretty crowded with all the incoming labour. There 9 people living in the Maitland house in 1871 and the house is recorded as only having 2 rooms which had windows. 9 people, 2 rooms in a back street in Whiteinch. A far cry from the open farmland of their youth really.
The parish record you mention is actually a record of the couple declaring to the minister and the kirk session that they had been married by Mr McKean in Donaghadee in the June of the previous year i.e. 1826. There are numerous such entries in Kirkcolm, Leswalt and Sranraer. A lot of couples said they were married in Ireland. Whether they actually were or not is another matter...I imagine they pitched up in Kirkcolm either already having their first child Margaret, or expecting one, and they have been required to account for themselves.
Would it be possible to see a scanned image of the receipt/note in the bible? It's very interesting. The Spratts were clock and watchmakers in Saintfield, Co Down, and James Caffrey was the eventual husband of James' niece Isabella, one of his sister Nancy's illegits. It'd be fascinating to know how it came to be in James Blackstock's bible. James Caffrey would have been about 16 in 1836.
Sheila