Dear Dorothy, I have a George Hamilton farmer of Barshagra near Neilston marrying Janet Carswell at Craig of Neilston Farm ,Neilston in 1851. George was born in Neilston in 1827 to William Hamilton & Ann Gilmour. Below is an extract from a Neilston Web Site re a George Hamilton. "Shirts, probably the good old-fashioned stiff-fronted type, were sent to a laundry at Holehouse for bleaching and laundering. This laundry became part of Holehouse Farm; it was a fairly large two-storey building and was in use until quite recently as a stable and hay shed. Mr. Hamilton, the tenant, was contracted to Crofthead Mills, and he combined this activity with dairy farming. Before and after the First World War his farm was very popular with the young folks at that end of the village; there was always something 'doing' - if it was not crunching corn or bagging chains, which is cleaning horses' harness chains in bags of sawdust, or feeding pigs, we simply climbed trees, usually for chestnuts. It was a sort of playground for the local youth, and Mr. Hamilton, Geordy, as he was called, seemed happy to encourage young people about the place. Many locals will have happy memories of Holehouse Farm. The laundry building and farm are now non-existent." John Carswell NSW Australia, Researching Carswell, Howie, Stevenson, Gemmell & McKay farmers of Neilston . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy" <amaze.d@virgin.net> To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 7:32 AM Subject: [Renfrew] PATON and HAMILTON: Greenock and Largs > Looking for help with PATON and HAMILTON families around turn of 18th into > 19th C. - Greenock with possible connection to Largs, Ayrshire. > Anyone doing research with these names ? > Dorothy > > > > > > > > ==== SCT-RENFREW Mailing List ==== > ********************************************************************** > To search the archived lists, including this list go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/search.html > >