McCloy is alive and well and still in Glasgow

[celia]

Hi
I have just tried the E.Kilbride email service again, which is for various things. It isn't till you post your mail that you get a notice saying email service not available.You would think they would take it out of their contact us tray wouldn't you?thats one down I will try one of Billy's

Celia

Anne I have just realized the email service i used wasn't the same as the one you gave. Have just been back and found it.So post now gone.I had copied and pasted my mail  onto a document so i didn't have to keep re-writing it

[annejs]

If you're lucky they may print your request as a small article.  Happens in my local newspaper quite often if they have space.

Good luck,

Anne

[celia]

Well it's now ten days since i emailed The E.K news asking how i go about putting a request in thier paper(like which dept  do i send it to?,and so far i havent recieved a reply.Should i send another one send a letter or wait a bit longer

Celia

[Marc_16]

Hi Celia.

I think you shoul wait a few more days, then if you dont hear anything in about a week , contact them again. Have you got any other form of contact for the E.K news?

Marc 

[VivSonntag]

Hi
the McCloy's of Glasgow came into my family in 1866 when my G.Grandfather George married Jane McCloy.I Have the McCloys going back to 1792. to around 1930's all over Scotland. In all the time i have had the tree i have only ever found one person researching The McCloys.I thought the family must have died out or emigrated.So I was amazed today to find via the phone books for Scotland. That there are still lots of McCloys in East Kilbride,where my G.G.Grandfather Richard McCloy was born in 1810. There are some in the bridge of Wier,Renfrewshire,plus other places my ancestors came from. I know they spread out all over Scotland.The thing is i would like to write to some of these people  but i think i have tried doing this before and never got any replies.Even though i sent a S.A.E,So i was wondering if it might be best to put a letter of some sort in a paper in Glasgow.Then people might feel less pressurized to reply.I think half the McCloys I Scotland will be descendent's  of Alexander McCloy My G.G.G.Grandfather. Any thought on this as what would be best,would be appreciated

Celia

Hi Celia

Never fear there are McCloy's everywhere.  I am researching my husbands family from his grandmother's side.  She was Isabella Colston McCloy Daniel.  Her mother was Annie born in Rankinston Ayr in 1885 and Annie in turn was the daughter of Alexander McCloy/McLoy and Isabella Colston.  Alexander born in Ireland in 1847 and emigrated to Scotland in the early 1850s - they were miners.  Alexander died in Cambusneath Lanark in 1913.

Annie and her husband emigrated to New Zealand in 1912-1913.  Don't know if we have a connection but would love to hear from you

Regards

Viv Sonntag
Nth Qld Australia

[celia]

Hi Viv
sorry i didn't get back to you sooner,but i have hundreds of McCloys by generation.Going back to the birth of Alexander McCloy in 1792 died in 1860 don't know where  he was born but it was suggested Ireland.He married Ann wallace in 1809.I haven't looked at the file for a couple of years so i have been refreshing my memory.I do have 3 Isabella's
Isobella Smith McCloy Born 1873
the second born 1885  the third born Nielson 1825.
As far as i know i haven't got any miners,all the McCloys i have were in the cotton trade.Richard McCloy My G.G Grandfather was an Engineer,he died in 1888.

Celia

[VivSonntag]

Thanks Celia, but keep us in mind.  Maybe the name McCloy/McLoy was a very common name in Ireland, therefore who knows where the connection might lead.

Regards

Viv Sonntag