Hello, all, Where to begin with the kudos! First to Diana Henry for her WFP postings, which took me back to my McLean-Hill-Hyslop-Clint lot when she included the birth of a male to JAMES HYSLOP CLINT and his wife AGNES McLEAN CLINT in Gorbals, Newton Stewart.. The location of GORBALS, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, stimulated my interest as one Glasgow born-and-bred, where THE Gorbals is a very well-known, but not exactly a salubrious district.. Things are changing, though, just as Newton Stewart demolished old structures, so too were many of the old tenements in the Glasgow Gorbals. Many other older districts in Glasgow are also being regenerated.. Anton McLoughlin suggested I contact LibArchive@dumgal.gov.uk with my queries about (the) Gorbals in Newton Stewart, to which I received a very prompt reply from Cathy Gibb. As an Englishman (!!!☺☺☺), Anton has been a great source of information and help to me in establishing facts and figures about people and places in various parts of Scotland. Ian McClumpha (donkey's ages ago) put me on to the names and address of John McLean and his wife Agnes Hill in Newton Stewart. I had not known the name of Agnes McLean's mother up until that point. Jenelle McCarrick who digs and digs and digs to come up with different websites to investigate is a latter-day Agatha Christie. ☺☺☺ Nancy Seeds, Connecticut, as well as Olive McDonald, her relatives Wilson and Jean Ross, and friends John and Margaret Murphy, all helped to add more bits and pieces to the Clint family jigsaw puzzle. I am also in communication with Dennis Binns, editor of the Auchencairn History Society (Kirkcudbrightshire) publication, who has been able to help with some of the history of the village where some of my Clint lot settled. According to Cathy Gibb's research in the 1851 census, Gorbals ran from the end of Colton Mill (now King Street) to the Old Bridge end. This is now known as Arthur Street. The numbers 34-65 were on the east side and numbers 1-48 on the west side of the street. The street fell into decay and was redeveloped in the 1920s with a lot of the ground transferring to the Burgh Council. Gorbals is from the Gaelic Gort a' Bhaile meaning "field of the farm". It seems to have been a recognized name in Newton Stewart in the 1841 and 1851 census(es) but must have been changed at a later date. In the 1841 census the McLean family are living at 54 Gorbals -- John, Journeyman Shoemaker, aged 49. Agnes (Hill), aged 47, Agnes (McLean), aged 16 and Helen, aged 12. In the 1851 census widow Agnes (Hill) McLean, aged 60, appears living at 8 Gorbals with her daughter Agnes, a dressmaker, aged 25, both in Newton Stewart..... You can have a look at the trades and occupations of those living in the same street as we have an index to the 1851 census at www.dumga.gov.uk/lia (then click on Catalogues and Indexes and then on Historical Indexes) Just type Gorbals into the search box and Penninghame for the Parish and it will give you the whole street. There is an excellent photographic and local studies collection in the Ewart Library in Catherine Street. Our indexed newspapers are also a good source of information. JAMES CLINT appears in the Dumfries & Galloway Standard Newspaper indexes four times. 1865 11/12 4F Birth on 31 st November at Lochenling, Auchencairn, Mrs. James Clint of a son. (I have written to Dennis to ask what, where Lochenling is in Auchencairn.) 1873 19/7 4F Death of youngest son on 14 July 1874 14/11 4F Dearth of wife Agnes McLean on 7 November 1886 3/7 4H Marriage of eldest daughter Ellen to John Toul, 25 June and once in the Wigtown Free Press 1854 4/5 4G Mrs. James Clint of a son of Gorbals, Newton Stewart. Agnes McLean married James Clint on 5 March 1854 in Penninghame Parish. Unfortunately no death records survive for Penninghame to establish when John and Agnes McLean died. We hold all the census(es) from 1841-1901 and the Old Parish Registers as well up to the start of registration in 1855. Cathy Gibb, Archives Assistant Dumfries and Galloway Libraries, Information and Archives Dumfries Archives Centre 33 Burns Street Dumfries DG1 2PS Scotland Tel. 01387 269 254 Fax 01287 264 126 e-mail libarchive@dumgal.gov.uk The Glasgow connection occurs when James Hyslop Clint and Agnes McLean Clint's son, Peter Clint (1854-1901), went to Glasgow where he married and had three of a family, one of whom was my father. Peter Clint died at the age of 47 and is buried in Sighthill Cemetery, Springburn, Glasgow. I am his granddaughter. If I've omitted any names of others who have helped me in my ongoing search, my apologies. Maisie (Mary Brown Clint Egger, formerly of Glasgow, and now of chilly Paso Robles, California)