This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/EgC.2ACE/2113.1636.1646.3749.3752.1 Message Board Post: My family originally came from Tarbarton, Ayrshire and during the eighteenth century moved to Tarset on the Upper Tyne where they were hill famers. In 1820 John and his two young sons John and Robert moved to Ayres Quey, Sunderlaund where they became glass makers. Young John (1816-74) became mayor and M.P. for Sunderland and in 1850 establish the Seaham Glass Company, the largest black glass bottle manufacturers in the world. John's younger brother Robert, my great grand father, ran the company as Robert Candlish & Son until his death in 1887. My grandfather Richard (1853?-1910) was company accounntant.My father Robert (1897-1964) left Seaham in 1918. I have much, much more detail if this of interest.