More about drapers--Our ancestor, Joseph SCOTT, left the Wigtownshire area to become a "Scotch draper" in Cardiff, Wales. I don't know how he learned to do that as his father was, as we understand it, a ploughman. I'd be interested in knowing about why people from this area seemed to be drapers. Lynn in Fla. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:10:40 +0100 From: "Malcolm Lockerbie" <malcolmlockerbie@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Kirkinner and tea dealers To: gorbuscha@hotmail.com, sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY119-F1156F672CC77D56C9131DCD0110@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hi, I don't think this was just Kirkinner. I have found one of my family from Dumfriesshire livingoccupations Drapers and Tea Dealers. His brother was living in Oxford in 1861 a Draper. I have come across a large number of Scots in England with these two occupations. My relatives were back in Dfs in 1871 as Stone Masons, their father's trade!! I have also found several later relatives from both Wgt and Dfs working as police officers mainly in Carlisle and Liverpool. My family either moved to England, Glasgow / Edinburgh or they migrated to the New World. Many migrated later after moves within Britain. I guess this is the normal pattern for most families as the rural economy in SW Scotland could not support expanding families. Any views on why these particular occupations? >From: "Stewart McK" <gorbuscha@hotmail.com> >To: sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIG LIST] Kirkinner and tea dealers >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:54:39 -0700 > >There is a sentence in the Statistical Accounts (1845?) of Kirkinner >reporting that many of the young men of Kirkinner left the parish in the >early-mid 1800s to enter into the tea trade in England. I found some >support >for this type of emigration in the 1841 census, where I found a house full >of late adolescent male Scots living and working in Coventry with a head of >household whose occupation was listed as tea dealer. Does anyone else have >a >relative that met with this fate? My gggrandfather started his working life >in England selling tea so I'm interested to know more about this >phenomenon. > >_________________________________________________________________ No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.1/854 - Release Date: 6/19/2007 1:12 PM