Sharp's & Condie of Slammanan & New Monklands

Post by **joette** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:25 pm

I have spent most of the day watching the Semi-Annual Conference of my Church.
I was very excited when our President Thomas S Monson was talking about hardship & sacrifice.
He spoke about his maternal GGreat-Grandparents Cecilia Sharp Condie & Gibson Condie who in 1847 emigrated to "Zion" from Slammanan in Clackmannashire-he even got the pronunciation right.
Along the way they buried at sea their infant son Nathaniel before arriving eventually in the Salt Lake Valley.
If there are any descendants out there-I see that Gibson's line is traced back to about the early 1600's-I suspect one of the few possessions they took with them would have been a family bible-then there will be a feast of family history awaiting you-some you need to be a family member to view.
I would imagine there are journals etc & may be of interest to any relatives
I was doubly excited as my Waddell's ended up in Clackmannanshire & my Great-Grandfather was born there-I know how sad are the little things which thrill us.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:10 am

Hello Joette,

It would be an interesting story to read. You get some fantastic histories recorded and published when religious or ethnic groups set up their own settlements and stick together as a community. That sort of thing happens less when there’s nothing similar to bind people together and probably rarely when people get swallowed up by a big city.

My Great Grand Aunt’s family and a few others started a Welsh settlement in the U.S. in the 1840s where they all spoke Welsh and were all very religious. There were 50th, 75th and 100th year celebrations with publication of everyone’s histories and photographs. Some of the earlier histories were translated into English and incorporated into later ones and the State Library has published them on the internet.

I haven’t heard anything about any later celebrations. Perhaps people moved on, new people moved into the area and the language and religious intensity was lost.

All the best,
Alan

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:55 am

from Slammanan in Clackmannashire-he even got the pronunciation right.

He may have got the pronunciation right but not the Geography!
Slammannan is in the Falkirk area of Stirlingshire a fair wee trek across the Forth from Clacks.

Post by **joette** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:50 pm

Wilma-I should have checked!