Duntocher families

[Helen]

Hello again wms,
I've sent you an email. 

and Ann ... thank you so much for your email, I appreciate your info,
Helen

[Bankiegirl]

Hello, I'm new here.  Very intersted in all the previous replies.  No connections to my family so far though. 

I'd really be interested to know if anyone on here has any recollection of a family called McDermid.  Mum and Dad John and Margaret.  Children:  Barbara (my great granny), Donald, Sarah, Patrick, Mary, Christina and Isabella.  All of these children were born around 1885 - 1896 and all have addresses at Veitch's Court, Duntocher.  I have more information on them if anyone has any connection or handed down memories. 

Thanks

firsttimer

Hi firsttimer,
I just found this site tonite and am quite excited to find the name McDermid.
John and Margaret were my great grandparents, I think Margaret's maiden name was Kelly. 
Christina was my grandmother, but sadly died before I was born.
I'd love to find out more if you have any information.
Bankiegirl XXX

[Malin]

Hi wms,
Your dad was John Stewart, son of Geordie?  Would that be Wee Geordie married to Gretta McGrory?
If so, John was my cousin.
Helen
b.t.w - I tried your email address, it bounced back ??

There seems to be a lot of relations of Greta McGrory, Morrison, Stewart on here. Can I claim to be one also?

My grandmother Elizabeth Farren is Greta's aunt.

The Farren and McGrory familes are both from the area around Culdaff village in Inshowen.

[Helen]

Welcome to the forum Malin   
I'm sure you will be getting a reply from winniep - Greta was her grandmother.
I'm from the Stewart line myself, and don't know much about the McGrory's,
although I do converse with John's cousin Jim McGrory, a lovely man.
Helen

[Malin]

I would reckon we are talking about Ann.

Jim is also my relation as was John Stewart in the usual Duntocher way.

Though staying in Duntocher most of my days, I do not see people much as I work away a lot.

I was just shocked when I saw my "Aunt" Greta's name and then the host of ghosts and memories from the past in the remaining thread.

[winniep]

Hi Malin

its winniep here great to hear from you I am researching the morrison side of the family and you really suprised me with the information about my grandmothers aunt I have been looking for information on them and could not find any

hope to hear from you soon.

Regards

ann

[Helen]

Hi Malin,
Small world isn't it?  I've never actually met Jim because I live in Australia, but it was my cousin John (Stewart) who introduced us - via email.  John couldn't speak highly enough of him.  Whenever I have a query Jim never fails to to what he can for me,  you do have
lovely relations.   
Helen

[Malin]

The Farrens lived in a place called Oldtown,near Culdaff in Inishowen, Co. Donegal.

My grandfather, James McDaid eloped to Scotland with my grandmother Elizabeth Farren and married in Greenock in 1899.
Their journey to Greenock was predicated by the prescence there of Elizabeth's and Mary's brother, Conn Farren.

Greta's mother,Mary and her husband Joseph McGrory lived in Derry where Greta was born and they stayed there for a period and were living in the Duntocher/ Clydebank area in Scotland by the time of the arrival of my grandparents to firstly to Clydebank and then eventually Duntocher.

Their reasons for migration being similar to that of my grandparents being the availability of work on Clydeside and the prescence of family members already there.

My grandparents appear in the 1901 census in Livingstone Street and four years later their third child, John is born and shown as registered in 35 New Street in Duntocher. 

My grandparents then remained living in Duntocher alongside the rest of their Farren/ McGrory connection until their deaths.

[winniep]

Hi Malin

thanks for the information its was  really helpful and cleared up a few things I did not know now I can tie it in with my grandmothers connection with the morrisons and thats another chapter complete

regards

ann