"Shaw turners" wouldn't be shawl turners, would it? I have just looked at my great grandmother's Paisley shawl. It has a narrow hem (about 1/8inch) to which is attached a fringe. The hem is stitched by hand. I await correction. Coal mining in Ayrshire. There was far more of it in Renfrewshire but it would depend where the border cut through. And some of the ports from which the coal would be shipped over to Arran and Bute would be in Ayrshire. The coal stretched down to Cumnock and New Cumnock. We may not have had as much snow in Britain as you've had in Ontario, but we have had enough, thank you. My feet haven't felt quite so fruz as they do right now in a long, long time. /cheers Pat (once a Torontonian, now living in UK) ----- Original Message ----- From: "McCabeClan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: Old Occupations Questions > Hello All, > > A couple of questions... > > I have a chaps two young daughters in an 1851 census described as "shaw turners" by occupation. > I'm just guessing that this probably had something to do with cloth making etc. but does anyone know for sure what this occupation was? > > If a man living in Lamlash, Kilbride Parish, Arran was described from 1851 onwards as a coal merchant/coal agent wouldn't he have to have the coal all brought over from Ayrshire? > Does anyone know where in Ayrshire the coal was usually imported from for use in Arran? > > Thanks a lot. > > Pat > > > > ==== ButeshireGenWeb Mailing List ==== > *********************************************************************** > For Websites or WebPages of Buteshire GenWeb subscribers see > http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctbutes/homepage.htm > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >