If anyone has a copy of the clock-maker book below, I would be grateful for a look-up. I'm looking for information on James Stewart, a clock-maker in Glasgow, who was apprenticing with James Leckie in 1778. James Stewart was probably born about 1755-60 in southern Perthshire. He is descended from a family of Stewarts who resided at Grodich, Glen Finglas, Callander, Perthshire in 17th-19th centuries. James belongs to the same family as Walter Frangich Stewart. "Frangich" is the Gaelic word for "French speaker", but it is also very close to a place name, Frenich, which is located on Loch Chen, just south of Loch Katrine, near Glen Finglas, where this family originates from. It's impossible to know if Walter was nicknamed "Frangich" because he spoke French or because he came from Frenich. James Stewart was listed as a clock-maker in Trongate, Glasgow in 1778-1779. There is a Robert Stewart, clock-maker in Trongate in 1841. They are likely father and son. Both of them are featured together in an article from a clock-making magazine from the 1980s. Unfortunately this article focuses on their clocks, not on their genealogy, and tells us nothing of their relationship to each other nor of their origins. Apparently James Stewart's clocks were quite prized. A grandfather clock made by James Stewart recently sold at auction for £8000! James Stewart may have had another son named Alan. James Stewart was also later named a Burgess and Guild Brother in Glasgow (date unknown). I'd be grateful for anyone who can check the clock-maker book to see if there is any reference to James Stewart above. Thanks Ryk Brown Stewarts of Balquhidder Research Group ----- Original Message ----- From: <BRUINSWOOD@aol.com> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] PERTHSHIRE books > publisher: 2005.] At long last! This long awaited book details the > clockmakers, watchmakers, cabinet makers, dialmakers and suppliers who > were > involved in the horological trade. Records have been consulted from the > earliest > times to the 1881 Census. The names are aranged alphabetically- so much > easier! Some 280 good black and white photographs enhance the text. A > book I > can throughly recommend. Scotland has been neglected for years- and they > did > have some quite outstanding makers. [PENRITH, CUM, United Kingdom]