Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Robert Welsh

Occupation:Tailor.
OPR Dailly:9Jun1797.Robert Welsh and Agnes Kennedy both in this parish had
their names enrolled in order to marriage.
Roll of male heads of families who are communicants in Dailly Anno Domini 1840
Robert Welch,taylor,village.
1841 Census Dailly En9 Village.Tailor.Living with wife,daughter Elizabeth and Grandson George.
1851 Census Dailly 585/9/6 High Street:Living with wife,grandson Goerge McBlane and a visitor Samuel McBlane an apprentice tailor.


William Wallace

Occupation:Customer weaver


William McBlain

1841 Census Dailly Ed9/Page23.Village.Living with wife and children Robert,Agnes and Samuel.He was a MS?


James McDowall

OPR Ballantrae - James son lawful to John Dool and Ann McLiester,
Pennyland,born 1st.April,baptized 3rd.April 1809
1851 Census Crummock Street,Beith 581/6/7:Living with his wife Margaret,four of
his children and his brother-in-law William Stewart. Occupation:Cotton handloom weaver.Brace weaver.
1861 Census Crummock Street,Beith 581/6/2.Living with his wife and children John,Anne and Margaret.Two rooms with one or more windows.Brace weaver.
1871 Census Crummock Street,Beith 581/6/30.Living with wife and daughter Margaret.He was a wool weaver.
1881 Census Crummock Street,Beith 581/6/34.Widower living with his daughter Margaret who was his housekeeper.He was now a cotton weaver.One room with one or more windows.
In each census he gives his place of birth as Colmonell Parish.
No headstone in churchyard.Lair contains sixteen burials.
No will found.
1851 Census Beith 527 1/10/8 Whang St
Thos McDowall H Mar 28 HLW Cotton B.Beith
Eliz wife 28
528 6/8/7 Crummock St
Barbara McDowall H Widow 44 Sewer of Muslin B.Beith
John Guy son 17 Tailor B.Beith


Margaret Stewart

Cause of death:British cholera.
OPR Beith.Birth.Margaret daughter lawful to William Stewart,weaver,New Street and Jean Houston.Born 1May and baptized 3May1808.


John McDowall

1851 Census.Living with father.
1861 Census.Living with father.Shoemaker.
1881 Census not found Scotland Lowland


Jean Houston McDowall

1851 Census.Living with father.
1861 Census.Not living with father.
From D/C:Dressmaker.Died of consumption.


Margaret McDowall

1851 Census.Living with father.
1861 Census.Living with father.Scholar.
1871 Census.Living with father.Seamstress.
1881 Census.Living with father.Housekeeper.
1891 Crumnock Street,Beith 581/6/10 Unmarried.Housekeeper.Two rooms with windows.
From D/C:Drapers outfitter,retired


William Stewart

Handloom weaver


Hector Davidson

OPR Auchinleck:Hector lawful son of Joseph Davidson and Agnes Walker was born
at Auchinleck on the 21st.Feb1835 and baptized 29th.March following in th
Parish Church by the Rev.James Chrystal.
1851 Census Auchinleck.Dickstone Farm.Hector Davidson,servant,unmarried,age 14,
shepherd.
Marriage Certificate 1863:Living in Leeds.Draper
1881 Census 127 Camp Road,Leeds,Yorkshire. RG11 4527/45/25 Temperance Agent.Living with second wife and four children.


Margaret Meikle

Probably died in York between 1866 and 1876


Joseph T. Davidson

1881 Census living with parents.Clerk.


Richard Davidson

1881 Census living with parents.Messenger.


Richard Meikle

Flesher


Hugh Tait

Weaver


Robert Murray Murchie

1851 Census 582/9/1 Colmonell Pinwherry.Shoemaker.living with wife Mary.