Hi Listers: Anyone out there heard of Starch Mills, perhaps located near Paisley Scotland. One of my family is trying to locate McDougal's who supposedly came from that area. Thanks, Roy

On Oct 1, 2006, at 18:18, Roy McMillan wrote: > Anyone out there heard of Starch Mills, perhaps located near Paisley > Scotland. One of my family is trying to locate McDougal's who > supposedly came from that area. Paisley is just outside of Glasgow. Nancy MacLarty

Perhaps this might be a lead.... http://www.paisley.org.uk/history/intro.php .....during the Napoleonic War, when supplies of silk thread to make heddles for the looms were scarce, the Clark brothers experimented with a cotton substitute. It proved highly successful and was also taken up by local housewives as a sewing thread superior to the older linen thread. Clarks were followed by Coats, and there can have been few seamstresses throughout the world in the last 150 years who have never used the products of one or the other of these two firms. Another process in the weaving of a shawl required the use of a starch paste to strengthen the warp. The starch was provided by the firm of Brown and Polson, who later further refined it and developed household corn flour. Good Luck Sue Visser Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy McMillan" <rmcmilln@mts.net> To: <SCT-ISLAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:18 PM Subject: [SCT-ISLAY] Starch Mills Hi Listers: Anyone out there heard of Starch Mills, perhaps located near Paisley Scotland. One of my family is trying to locate McDougal's who supposedly came from that area. Thanks, Roy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Roy: My McDougall/McLugash family, originally from Islay, lived in Neilston/Barrhead and Paisley. What family are you looking for? Sue is correct, there were/are? starch mills in Paisley. Laundresses usually worked in a laundry, not at home. At home they were called washer women. Regards Janet --- Roy McMillan <rmcmilln@mts.net> wrote: > Hi Listers: > Anyone out there heard of Starch Mills, perhaps > located near Paisley Scotland. One of my family is > trying to locate McDougal's who supposedly came from > that area. > > Thanks, Roy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com