Does anyone here live near Eaglesham?

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:48 am

Hi All

I was wondering if anyone here lives in or near Eaglesham. The reason that I am asking this is that I have a GGGGrandfather who lived many years in Eaglesham. He was born in Ireland around 1798 or1800 and died in Eaglesham in 1868. I know that he lived in Eaglesham from at least 1828, since his oldest living daughter was born there. All the census returns have him living in Eaglesham.

I would like to know more about the place and what life was like there for him at that time. He was a shoemaker who married twice.

Thanks

Sheila

mcblondie · Post by **mcblondie** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:59 am

Hi Sheila,

www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst433.html

If you click on the above web address it will take you to Eaglesham. It's one of my favourite places in Scotland, a lovely little town very picturesque.

Good luck
Katie

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:33 pm

Hi Sheila
Some photos here:
http://www.197aerial.co.uk/eaglesham.htm

Also worth a read would be the Statistical Accounts of 1834-5 to be found at:
http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/
(Go to the "For non-subscribers" bit and click on Browse scanned pages )

Best wishes
Lesley

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:06 pm

http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/31.htm

There is also “A Planned Village” The History of Eaglesham, published by the local council 1988.

http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/txt/ ... r_sale.htm

and a wee song

http://www.boroughloch.demon.co.uk/macs/soormilk.html

also a scanned postcard in the Gallery
Eaglesham Polnoon Street

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-991

I do not have any books on Eaglesham but do have an interesting one on Neilston.
The Neilson Story by J.J. Laws
It is worth the money just for the photograph of the Cowdenhall Dramatic club in the 1920s

Davie

Gallery url added by marilyn

Muriel · Post by **Muriel** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:32 pm

Some of my family lived in Eaglesham too. However, originally they came from Lochwinnoch, further west in Renfrewshire. They were cotton spinners and probably moved to Eaglesham between 1816 and 1822. It sems likely that the Earl of Eglinton was advertising for weavers & spinners to populate his new village. It is quite likely, therefore, that your ancestor did the same. If he was born in Ireland he might well have started of in Greenock or one of the other Clyde ports and moved further inland for work.

Eaglesham is indeed a very pretty place and would have been attractive to textile workers I should think, with new housing and better facilities than other places.

Muriel

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:14 pm

Hi All

Many thanks to Lesley, Katie, Davie and Muriel. All the links were wonderful, the pictures beautiful. I think that I am going to buy one of those books.

I think that it is important to find out about a place where my GGGGrandfather lived and my GGGrandmother grew up.

He was a shoemaker, but I guess with all those weavers around they needed somebody to make and mend their shoes.

Thanks to all of you again.

Sheila

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:16 pm

G'day Sheila
I am aff oot tae Ealgesham furr ma dinner the morra.
Dae ye huv oany streets that ye wid like a pic o'
Or ye kin gie us a surname an' ah'll ask aboot
Davie

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:23 pm

Hi Davie

Thank you for such a great offer. His name was Jonathan Kennedy. He was born ca 1798 and died in 1868. On the 1841 Census, He was living on Montgomery Square, then later at 8 Backrow. When he died he was living on Gilmore St.
His eldest daughter was 14 years old at the time of the 1841 Census. She always lists herself as being born in Eaglesham, so he must have been living there at least since 1827.

Thank you so much,

Sheila