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Offline NicPhaidein

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Still searching for John McFadyen, handloom weaver, Calton circa 1810
« on: Sunday 16 October 16 16:07 BST (UK) »
John McFadyen, my three times Greatgrandfather, was a handloom weaver in Calton. That's about all I know except that 1. He married Jean Renfrew of Paisley in September 1806. 2. She was born in Paisley in 1783 and died in Calton in January 1855. 3. John had a brother, Joseph, who was present at the birth of two of John's children. Since I can't find any Scottish birth records for these gentlemen, could they have been born in Ireland? I know a lot of Irish weavers came to Scotland. Where should I look?

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Re: Still searching for John McFadyen, handloom weaver, Calton circa 1810
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 16 October 16 17:21 BST (UK) »
NicP,  I've just checked the Old Glasgow Weavers records & found no McFadyen's between 1800 & 1880 & only one entrant in all that time who was born in Ireland. The hand-loom weaving was about finished by the mid 19th cent & the new mills were packed with operatives instead of weavers, many from Ireland. By 1880 the membership of the incorporation was made up of any occupation but weaving & was more or less a social club.
There's a website for the Old Calton Weavers who were famously militant & many found themselves reduced to penury by the advances of the Industrial Revolution.

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Re: Still searching for John McFadyen, handloom weaver, Calton circa 1810
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 16 October 16 17:25 BST (UK) »
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Still searching for John McFadyen, handloom weaver, Calton circa 1810
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 22 October 16 18:16 BST (UK) »
I have some searches that turned up jean  Renfrew

and some  census
+records I looked at when researching my own janet RENfrew
b 1788 m
John Mcdermid in 1826    also a weaver
used her maiden name on one census but married name on others

her daughter was a power loom weaver
cotton

and steam loom weaver 

is there a link to the old glasgow weavers records ?
some of my other scots ancestors were in the trade

Did you find Jean on census es  of 1841 and 1851
can you list all her children please .

Thanks Brigid
Roberts,Fellman.Macdermid smith jones,Bloch,Irvine,Hallis Stevenson
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