----- Original Message ----- From: "Maisie Egger" <campsie@tcsn.net> To: "DIANA HENRY" <dianahhenry@btinternet.com> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] BMD'S FROM WFP 4TH MAY, 1854 > > Diana, > > THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THANK YOU for including the following notice from > the WFP. You have just opened my eyes to the full birth date of my > father's father PETER CLINT. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DIANA HENRY" <dianahhenry@btinternet.com> > To: "sct-wigtownshire@roots" <Sct-Wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:46 AM > Subject: [WIG LIST] BMD'S FROM WFP 4TH MAY, 1854 > > >> BIRTHS > > CLINT, Male - B29/4/1854 - At Gorbals, Newton-Stewart, on the 29th ult., > the wife of Mr James Clint, miner, of a son. > > I should add here that Olive McDonald's friends John and Margaret Murphy > also uncovered this birth information at their local library in Newton > Stewart, but it didn't "click" until you included it in your list and I > decided to double-check the incomplete information I had already listed. > > When we were home in the summer we asked a few people in Newton Stewart > where (the) Gorbals was. No one knew this specific area, not even the > young lassie in the police station practically opposite where my Clint > forebears likely lived. > > Olive, who is a walking compendium of the lives and people of Newton > Stewart, and who now lives in Vancouver, B.C., suggested I visit her > relatives, Wilson and Jean Ross, in Newton Stewart when we made a > now-you-see-it, now-you-don't visit to the area. Seemingly they are about > the last of that generation who remember this area referred to as (the) > Gorbals, perhaps named after the poor area in Glasgow of the same name...a > rose by any other name. They were able to give us specific directions. > Sadly, the old houses have been demolished and in their place is a lovely > landscaped verge just above the banks of the River Cree. > > Now the next question: Would anyone on the Wig site have photos of the > old houses on that strip of land known as (the) Gorbals, before they were > demolished? I noticed a few older homes along from the landscaped area, > but they could be of a later vintage. > > I thoroughly enjoyed our all to short visit to this truly lovely part of > Scotland and I can only assume that anyone who left there did so for > employment or to expand his/her horizons. > > JAMES HYSLOP CLINT, sire of this unnamed child (Peter Clint) in this > birth announcement, was married to AGNES McLEAN CLINT. They had eight > children: Peter, Helen, John, Sarah, Agnes, Mary, James McLean, and I > believe another James who died young. > > A year after his wife AGNES McLEAN's death, 1874, in Auchencairn, > Kirkcudbrightshire, he left for England, and five years later he married > Catherine Hainge, born in Summertown, Oxfordshire, He spawned a second > family of three children, Ernest (b. W. Bromwich, Staffordshire) and > Florence, and Rose Ethel Clint, b. Merioneth, Towyn, Wales. > > At some point JAMES HYSLOP CLINT lived in Wolverhampton and then finally > ended up in Wales where he became captain of mines. He died in 1901 in > Merioneth, Wales. > > AGNE McLEAN's parents were AGNES HILL (b. 1794) and JOHN McLEAN (b. 1792). > Both Agneses were seamstresses, whilst JOHN McLEAN* was a shoemaker. > They, too, had addresses in the Gorbals area of Newton Stewart. > > This street listed the occupants as employed as mainly handloom weavers > and miners over this period of time. > > (*My father's family indicated that some on the Clint side "came from the > isles," and I am wondering if this might have referred to John McLean.) > > Given that so many records are no longer extant, I feel very fortunate to > have even this little information and thank everyone -- Barbara Horbury, > England, a Hyslop "shirttail cousin" who spent many hours compiling a book > on the Hyslop family, with "gems" on the side to do with the Hyslop-Clint > lot, Olive McDonald, Minnigaff-Newton Stewart, and now of Vancouver, B.C. > Wilson and Jean Ross, John and Margaret Martin, Newton Stewart and Ian > McClumpha, genealogist of this "whole airt," who at one point directed me > to Agnes McLean's parents' names, and now Diana, who, through her > postings, helped to clear up my myopia! > > Maisie >