Handloom Weavers of Perth website

[chrispaton]

Hi all,

I've placed some of my research into the handloom weavers of Perth onto a new website at www.PerthWeavers.bravehost.com along with many records from the 16th to 19th Centuries. The records include the 1841 census for Perth, weavers in the 1843-44 Perth street directory, weavers paying for the trade's St. John's kirk seat in 1749-51, weavers bearing arms in 1715, weavers listed in the King James VI Hosptal rental books for the 16th and 17th Cs, weavers named in the 18th and 19th C King James VI Hospital chartularies, and some miscellaneous records such as Perth weavers named in wills and testaments, and weavers listed in burgess rolls etc.

Part of the work comes from a postgraduate certificate dissertation carried out last year at the University of Strathclyde in Genealogical Studies, with many extra record sets transcribed since then.

If you have some Perth based weavers (i.e. in the town, not the county), hopefully it might help!

Chris 

[worldlywanderer]

Loved the site; didn't James Graham witness lots of documents! Could he, I wonder be the brother of John and son of Robert Graham and Betty Nicolson?

My own Graham line lived and worked in Pomarium at the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Weavers they may have been but perhaps not so humble as they appear to have owned property. I am confident of the line back to 1792 and reasonably so of the two earlier generations.

I was privileged to know my great grandmother who started her working life in the Dundee mills. She lived with her father until his death which gave me direct contact with oral family history back to around 1850. It included a belief that the family were descended from Bonnie Dundee which I suspect is more likely to be childhood tales from her roots in Lochee, close to Claverhouse's home at Claypots.

The Grahams are on my list to follow once I get back to Scotland but for the moment the sun is more important. Meantime, I would be delighted to hear from anyone with a connection to Grahams of Pomerium, particularly if the names Henry, John, James and Robert figure in their tree.

[Rosinish]

Are you looking for any weavers or just your family?

What era or are you interested in, up to present day (well as close to)?

There was a firm named Tay Textiles which employed many people. Their premises were on Dunkeld Road. They later changed name, will need to repost the name as I can't remember right now what they were called.

Annie

ADDED......Originally named Wallace Works then Tay Textiles and latterly Don & Low.

 

[Rena]

Congratulations Chris, although I have no weaving links to Perth, I browsed through the pages and took particular interest in the 1715 "Bearing Arms" page but only because my maternal branches are named in a similar Norfolk county list.  Norfolk must have been comparatively poor because it seemed their main weaponry was the Pike.

[Simba.Bruce]

Very interesting Chris! The information helps me to understand my weaving family's life. Although they came from the county Perthshire, none were actually in the town of Perth. I enjoyed the article immensely...thank you!