18th Century DNA experiments / cloning? .....

[emanday]

Found this inscription recorded on an Irish site...

This is ????????? burying place Here also lyeth the body of ????????, bred at the University of Glasgow, who died Oct 26th 1771 aged 52 years Here lyeth 4 of the children of ?????????, merchant in Newtown, anno 1678.

Bred at the Uni?

[LesleyB]

Well, well... Lost for words on that one!
Best wishes
Lesley

[emanday]

I should have mentioned that I replaced the actual names with the ?'s to avoid embarrassing anyone

Tried googling human breeding at Glasgow Uni, but got nuttin'

It's nearly as confuddling as the selection of gravestones at Kilmartin in Argyll where many have people who died in Experiment. Even the very excellent little museum next to the church had no information on that one!

[mallog]

I expect there are a few who would qualify for "bred at the Uni" but an "experiment" at Kilmartin ? - that could explain a few of mine.

BTW don't know anything about Kilmartin as I have just found a connection to that area so good to hear there is a museum.

[AnneM]

Sadly Experiement was nothing more exciting that a farm or township but why it was called that heaven only knows.

Anne

[Jack]

You're right Anne,
An extract from the interesting "Deserted Settlements of Kilmartin Parish" by Allan Begg.
--
Experiment.
"...From perusal of old maps, it seems to have been situated where Barsliosnoch Farm is now
and would have been the place where experiments in new methods of farming were carried out..."
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Thank goodness "dying in Experiment" was just where you'd died, and not how.
Jack

[emanday]

Kilmartin Museum is quite interesting and is really there because of the ancient burial mounds/cairns and standing stones.

If you have ancestors there, then the churchyard is a mine of information and has been extremely well maintained.

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I expect there are a few who would qualify for "bred at the Uni" but an "experiment" at Kilmartin ? - that could explain a few of mine
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mallog, I hear where you're coming from

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Thank goodness "dying in Experiment" was just where you'd died, and not how
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Got to say on the first reading of those stones, got a bit of a

[AnneM]

The museum is great but unfortunately none of my Kilmartin ancestors seem to be buried in the graveyard there, or if they are there are no stones.

BTW the cafe at the museum is a very good pit stop. I can highly recommend the venison casserole.

Kilmartin has to be one of my favourite day trips from home. Mother loves it as so many of her folk are mid Argyll and being a non driver she greatly appreciates being taken on a road trip occasionally.

Anne

[Liz Turner]

... bred at the University of Glasgow, ...

Bred at the Uni?

Had a wee smile when I saw that As far as I know nothing like that went/goes on at UoG, but what they might mean is that young men went to university at a much earlier age than they do today. Not uncommon for boys of 12/13 to be at university. Back in those days they lived on the campus "cheek by jowl" with their professors. Today the students have pretty decent accommodation in halls.

UoG has only been on its current site since 1851, prior to that was originally at the Catherdral and then down at the High Street in the area know as College Lands.

This link shows a newish development proposed at the old site.
http://www.albatown.net/media/newsletter.pdf

Link to short history of UoG
http://www.gla.ac.uk/general/welcome/past_present.html

Liz