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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #153 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 01:34 BST (UK) »


Okay Gadget, after a serious re-read of the whole topic......... boy what a task that was............ I think that I am inclined to agree with your line of thinking.  The Stewarton family looks the most likely......... but does that then eliminate the family fortune story, as they don't appear at first glance to be overly wealthy....

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #154 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 01:45 BST (UK) »


The 1871 UK Census shows Adam PATON as a Tool Maker Employing 32 men and 6 boys.  That doesn't sound like a small operation though, to have that many working for you. 


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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #155 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 01:54 BST (UK) »
Yes - that's the family that I'm interested in now, Karen - if you click on that line you'll see that the sons seem to have various occupations - one was a piano maker!

They were also in the Leeds area - close enough for a mix up of the names with the Paton & Baldwin company.

The fortune story, I'm taking with a pinch of salt - how many  little stories have we all found to be only half true in our own lines :-\

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #156 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 02:09 BST (UK) »



Yes Gadget, I have been trying to find as much as possible about them in the hope that something will click.

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #157 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 02:14 BST (UK) »


Did find this :-

Hugh Paton 1827-1867, Hugh Paton & Sons 1869-1892. At 21 Horse Wynd, Cowgate, Edinburgh 1827-1829, Horse Wynd, College St 1829-1839, 72 Adam Square 1840-1853, 10 Princes St 1854-1861, 40 Princes St 1857, 9 Princes St 1862-1867, 115 Princes St 1868-1884, 122 Princes St 1884-1892, 5 St James Square from 1893. Printing office and workshop at other addresses 1854-1892. Stationer, printer, printseller, carver and gilder.

Hugh Paton (1806-63) took a full-page colour advertisement in Gray's 1833 Edinburgh directory, giving his address as 25-27 Head of Horse Wynd, and featuring among other products 'the very best prepared Canvass, Pannels, & oil Colours in bladders, the Cheapest in Scotland'. A labelled canvas has been recorded, 1864.

Paton held appointments to the Duchess of Kent and the future Queen Victoria from 1836, later calling his premises the Royal Repository of Fine Arts. The business had an account with Roberson, 1850-81 (Woodcock 1997), trading as Hugh Paton, Hugh Paton & Sons and Hugh Paton & Son, from 10, 9 and 115 Princes St. Hugh Paton was recorded in the 1861 census living at 35 Tower St, Duddingston, Edinburgh, as a printer, carver and gilder, employing 33 men, with three of his nine children apparently working in the business. He died in November 1863. His will is recorded in 1864 (Scottish Documents).

Hugh Paton's widow, Jane Paton, advertised, following the death of her husband, that as from 1 January 1869 she was retiring from the business which would in future be carried on by her two sons, Chalmers Izett Paton and James Paton, as Hugh Paton & Sons (Edinburgh Gazette 30 March 1869).

Sources: Scottish Book Trades Index (for the above addresses, and for advertisements by Paton).

Is this the same family I wonder??

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #158 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 02:14 BST (UK) »
I had bookmarked this post because of the Paton name...I grew up in a family wholesale retail textile business and we sold Patons & Baldwin products and Coats & Clarke...this has nothing to do with your inquiry but I thought it was interesting.....a little bit of history about the families.

http://www.coatscrafts.co.uk/About+Coats/History/

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #159 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 02:20 BST (UK) »


There is quite a lot of stuff on the web regarding Hugh PATON and things he printed, sold, etc.  Perhaps he was wealthier than we first thought??

I know that we have to take the whole inheritance thing with a bucket of salt............ but this guy was into some serious stuff.........and appears to be fairly highly regarded.

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #160 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 02:53 BST (UK) »


It looks as though Hugh PATON left a Will that was 25 pages long and and Inventory 42 pages long........... musta had a lotta stuff.

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Re: Mystery of the Grieving Patton Heiress
« Reply #161 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 03:09 BST (UK) »
Good grief....these canny Scotsmen  ;D

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Inishowen: Meenamullaghan (Big Hill), Foffenagh (Rock), Illies and area...mainly McCallion, Doherty, Bradley, Grant, Devlin
Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan