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1st March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At North Woodside Cottage, on the 28th ultimo, Mrs James Thyne, a son.
At 26 Woodside Place, on the 28th ultimo, Mrs Neil Robson, a son.
At 34 Abbotsford Place, on the 28th ultimo, Mrs Robert Douglas, a daughter.
At 66 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, on the 26th ultimo, Mrs John Ord Mackenzie, a son.
At 55 Rose Street, Glasgow, on the 25th ultimo, Mrs David Latta, a daughter.
At 22 Dundas Street, on the 25th ultimo, Mrs David Robertson, a daughter.
At The Hirsel, on the 23d ultimo, the Countess of Horne, a daughter.
At Aberdalgie, on the 23d ultimo, Mrs TW Lorimer, a son.
At Barbachlaw, on the 21st ultimo, Mrs Hay, a daughter.
MARRIAGES [02]
At 75 Sauchiehall Street, on the 26th ultimo, by the Rev. Dr. Forbes, Mr James Clow, corn merchant, to Ann Scott, eldest daughter of Dr. Moffat, Glasgow.
At 276 St Vincent Street, on the 25th ultimo, by the Rev. Charles Popham Miles, Incumbent of St Jude’s, Colin Campbell Esq., of Ballinaby, to Jemima Crawford, daughter of Alexander Graham Esq.
At Strathaven, on the 25th ultimo, by the Rev. Walter McLay, Mr James Boyd, Glasgow, to Agnes, only daughter of the late Mr John Hamilton, merchant, Strathaven.
At Batavia, on the 25th December last, Alexander Fraser Esq., HBM, Consular Agent there, to Julia Hermina Van Citters, widow of EP Cenie(?) Esq.
DEATHS [02]
At 149 Hill Street, Garnet Hill, on the 28th ultimo, Alexander, only son of the late Alexander Craig Esq., of Tradeston Mills. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 29 Catherine Street, Anderston, on the 25th ultimo, Elizabeth Main, wife of Mr John Wallace. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 96 Cambridge Street, on the 28th ultimo, Thomas, aged four years and one month, and James aged two years and nine months, sons of Mr Robert Craig.
At 3 Carrick Street, on the 28th ultimo, Robert Bannatyne, aged six years, eldest son of Captain Robert McKirdy.
At 44 West Howard Street, on the 27th ultimo, Mrs George Lonsdale.
At 8 Surrey Place, on the 27th ultimo, Helen Steel, wife of Mr AH Crawford.
At 1 North Albion Court, on the 27th ultimo, Mrs John Watson.
At West Ballat, on the 27th ultimo, Mr George Muirhead, aged 86 years.
At 92 Candleriggs Street, on the 25th ultimo, Marion, youngest daughter of Mr. John Ewing.
At 65 Park Street, Liverpool, on the 25th ultimo, from the effects of an accident. Mr John Beatson, jun., of Glasgow.
At Waterloo Street, on the 23d ultimo, Mr William Scougall, agent, aged 48(?) years.
At 68 New Sneddon Street, Paisley, Mary Smith, aged 29 years, wife of Mr Robert Fulton, mechanic.
At Belfast, on the 20th ultimo, Robert Gavin Esq., (formerly of Johnstone), house agent.
On board the Anna Watson, at Porto novo, in November last, Mr William Husband, mate, son of the late Captain John Husband, Dunfermline.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT NEWARTHILL - On Monday morning last, part of the roof of the pit No. 18, in the vicinity of Newart-hill, fell and caused the instantaneous death of a young man named Daniel Roy, aged 18 years, son of Michael Roy, miner. By the same accident, a boy aged 12 years, the son of Thomas McCann, was so severely injured on the right foot, near the ankle joint that it was necessary to resort to amputation of the foot.
4th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At Dalsholm, on the 2d instant, Mrs Alexander McArthur, a son.
At 155 Eglinton Street, on the 2d instant, Mrs William Menzies, a son.
At Clyde View, Partick, on the 2d instant, Mrs James Thomson, a daughter.
At 10 Cumberland Place, Glasgow, on the 1st instant, Mrs George G Allan, a daughter.
At 97 South Portland Street, on the 1st instant, Mrs William Drummond, a son.
At Tulse Hill, on the 26th ultimo, the wife of James Boyd Esq., a daughter.
At Samlaman, Strontian, on the 25th ultimo, Mrs Charles Macquarie, a daughter.
At 7 Ness Bank, Inverness, on the 25th ultimo, Mrs John Wardlaw Ramsay, a son.
At Castle Menzies, on the 25th ultimo, Lady Menzies of Menzies, a daughter.
At 26 Broomlands, Paisley, on the 24th ultimo, Mrs William Smith, a daughter.
MARRIAGES [02]
At Johnstone, on the 26th ultimo, by the Rev. Mr Auston, Mr Joseph Braid, manager of the Johnstone Foundry, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr Neil McDougall.
At Moss Street, Paisley, on the 29th ultimo, Mr Adam McLellan, clothier., Glasgow, to Catherine, youngest daughter of George Lyall Esq., Paisley.
DEATHS [02]
At Gilbertfield, Hamilton, on the 28th ultimo, Jessie Bald, aged sixteen months, daughter of Mr Alexander Dixon. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 13 Blythswood Square, on the 2d instant, Arthur Francis jun., aged four years, eldest son of Mr AF Stoddard.
At 80 Gordon Street, on the 2d instant, Margaret, youngest daughter of Mr George Mackie.
At Hayston, Campsie, on the 2d instant, Mrs Reid, relict of Thomas Reid Esq.
At 475 Gallowgate Street, Glasgow, on the 2d instant, Helen Leckie, aged one year and four months, youngest twin daughter of Mr Daniel McGregor, flesher.
At 22 Monteith Row, on the 1st instant, Caroline Elizabeth, infant daughter of Mr H Pigott.
At 3 Claremont Terrace, on the 1st instant, Mrs William Hamilton.
At 6 Saltmarket Street, on the 1st instant, Jean, only child of Mr Gavin Paterson.
At 109 King Street, Glasgow, on the 27th ultimo, Mr John Macdonald, spirit dealer, aged 27 years.
At her daughter’s house, Callow Terrace, Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, on the 18th ultimo, Mrs Charles Watt, sen.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT – We gave lately particulars of an accident which occurred at Irvine station, on the morning of Friday – eight days, to Andrew Brown, one of the guards, and which accident was of so serious a nature, that it was found necessary to amputate both limbs. We regret to learn that the hopes which were entertained of his recovery have been fallacious, as death ensued on the Wednesday following. Brown was a native of Kilmarnock, was married, and has left a widow and several children to mourn his untimely death. – Kilmarnock Journal.
8th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At 116 South Portland Street, on the 7th instant, Mrs Alexander Cree, a daughter.
At 3 Canning Place, on the 7th instant, Mrs WG Mackie, a son.
At 187 Hill Street, Garnet Hill, on the 6th instant, Mrs Thomas Williamson, a daughter.
At Woodside, Paisley, on the 6th instant, Mrs Peter Coats, a daughter.
At Hillhead, on the 5th instant, Mrs James Stewart, a son.
At Coatbridge, on the 4th instant, the wife of the Rev. S Connell, a daughter.
At Threepwood, Beith, on the 3d instant, Mrs John Love jun., a son.
At Argyll Street, Helensburgh, on the 3d instant, Mrs Robert Colquhoun, a son.
At 56 Old Vennel, on the 1st instant, Mrs George Young, a son.
MARRIAGES [02]
At Park Grove, Glasgow, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Poddie(?), Mr JW Anderson, to Janet, youngest daughter of James Gray Esq.
At 33 Monteith Row, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Lindsay, Mr John Aitken, to Mary, sixth daughter of the late Mr Alexander Boyd, baker, Glasgow.
At 43 Norfolk Street, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. JS Taylor, Alexander Wallace Esq., plumber, to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr Robert Fisher, engineer, Glasgow.
At Carron, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. Mr McPherson, Free Church, Larbert, Mr David Simpson, merchant, Lanark, to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr Alexander McKenzie.
At 5 Coburg Street, on the 4th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Lindsay, Mr John Wallace, wine and spirit merchant, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr John Balfour.
At Dumbarton, on the 4th instant, by the Rev. A Gray, Mr Malcolm Macgregor, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr John Paxton, ship-owner, Dumbarton.
At the Manse of Lancaster, Canada West, on the 31st January, by the Rev. Thomas Macpherson, the Rev. Thomas Scott, minister of Camden, to Maria Smyth, daughter of the late Joseph Taylor Esq., merchant, Glasgow.
DEATHS [02]
At 6 Drygate Street, on the 7th instant, Mr William Waddell, surgeon, aged 51(?) years. – Friends are requested to accept of this intimation.
At Bankhead, Denny, on the 6th instant, Mary, only child of Mr George Guild, distiller, Broomhill. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At Westertown of Glorat, Campsie, on the 5th instant, Mr James Brown. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At Riccarton, on the 6th instant, Sir James Gibson-Craig, Baronet, in his eighty-fifth year.
At 145 George Street, on the 6th instant, of croup, George Miller, youngest son of Mr Robert Thomson.
At the residence of her daughter, Mrs Shaw, Park House, Clapham park, near London, on the 4th instant, Mrs Catherine Wardrop, aged 68 years, relict of William Wardrop Esq., Secretary to the Bank of Scotland.
At 95 Hill Street, Garnet Hill, on the 3d instant, Agnes, eldest daughter of Mr David Buchanan, teacher.
At Titwood, Mearns, on the 2d instant, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Pollock Esq.
At Lily Bank, Johnstone, on the 3d instant, of scarletina, Cecilia Anderson, aged nine years and eight months, third daughter of Mr Thomas Shanks.
DEATH OF SIR JAMES GIBSON-CRAIG [abbreviated] – We regret to announce the death of Sir James Gibson Craig, Bart., of Riccarton and Ingliston... The malady took such an alarming form on Friday that it was deemed advisable in that day to employ the electric telegraph to summon his eldest son, the Member for the City, from his duties in Parliament... The Family of Gibson of Durie was none of the least famous in the judicial annals even of a country like Scotland... Sir Alexander Gibson, the first Knight Baronet, but not the first eminent lawyer of the race, was Lord President of the Court of Session in the reign of King James VI. He married the daughter of the most distinguished jurist of that age, Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton, the accomplished author of the treatise “De Jure Feudali”. The eldest son of this marriage, Sir Alexander Gibson, was that Lord Durie whose forcible abduction from Leith Links is commemorated in one of the most spirited ballads of the “Border Minstrelsy”. The second son, John – a soldier, who fought for the King at Worcester – married a daughter of the house of Kinnoull, by whom he had a son, Sir Alexander Gibson, one of the Clerks of Session, and Clerk to the Privy Council. The second son of this gentleman, Alexander Gibson of Durie, was also a Clerk of Session. His son John married a grand-daughter of the noble house of Hyndford, by whom he had two daughters and three sons. From Alexander the eldest is descended the knightly house of Gibson-Carmichael of Skirling. The second son, William, a merchant in Edinburgh, who lived to the year 1807, married Mary-Cecilia, a daughter of James Balfour Esq., of Pilrig, by whom he had ten children, nine sons and a daughter.
The Second son, James Gibson, afterwards, Sir James Gibson-Craig, was born at Edinburgh – we believe in the Lawnmarket – on the 11th of October 1765... in the autumn of 1796 he married Anne, daughter of J Thomson Esq. of this city, by whom he had issue two sons and seven daughters. The eldest son – now Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart. – was born in 1797 and called to the Scotch bar in 1820... In the year 1823 the late baronet added the surname of Craig to his paternal name of Gibson, on succeeding to the estate of Riccarton, in virtue of the entail of Robert Craig Esq., advocate, one of the Judges of the Commissary Court and the lineal descendant of the great feudal lawyer, Sir Thomas Craig, whose eldest daughter, as we have seen, was married to Sir Alexander Gibson of Durie in the end of the sixteenth century... - Courant
11th March 1850 >
BIRTHS [02]
At 25 Trongate, on the 9th instant, Mrs Effingham Deans, a son.
At 49 Oxford Street, on the 9th instant, Mrs RH Cameron, a daughter.
At Cavendish Street, on the 9th instant, the wife of Mr Peter McCormick, pattern-designer, a daughter.
At 4 Adelphi Place, on the 9th instant, Mrs William Moffat, a daughter.
At Friarstown House, County Leitrim, Ireland, on the 7th instant, Mrs Alexander Sim jun., a son.
At Carruth, on the 6th instant, the lady of Henry Macdowall Esq., a son.
At Villa Street, Birmingham, on the 6th instant, Mrs McLauchlan, a daughter.
At Kooringa, Adelaide, South Australia, on the 30th August last, Mrs Andrew Thomas, a daughter.
MARRIAGES [02]
At 96 Hospital Street, on the 7th instant, by the Rev. JW Borland, of Gillespie United Presbyterian Church, William Watson Esq., grain merchant, Glasgow, to Jane Glen, second daughter of the late Mr James Fleming, merchant, Langloan.
At the Holy Trinity Church, Hull, on the 6th instant, by the Vicar, the Rev. JH Bromley, MA., great-uncle to the bride, Hardy Robinson Esq., of Stockport, to Grace, youngest daughter of Charles Frost Esq., of Hull.
At 43 Argyll Street, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. Peter Currie, John Young Esq., merchant, Glasgow, to Agnes, youngest daughter of the late Peter Dunlop Esq, Falkirk.
At Elderslie Castle, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. David Reston, Mr Peter Currie Henderson, to Margaret, eldest daughter of James Robertson, Esq., farmer, Elderslie.
At Flatt Farm, Largs, on the 5th instant, by the Rev. John Kinross, minister of the parish church, John Crawford Esq., of Riles(?), to Margaret, eldest daughter of John Wilson, Esq., there.
DEATHS [02]
At the Bruce Arm’s Inn, Hamilton, on the 9th instant, Mr Walter Gowans, coach-proprietor. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At Armour Street, on the 10th instant, Andrew Wilson, aged five years and four months, son of Mr Archibald Woodside, accountant, Glasgow.
In the 10th instant, Margaret, aged six years, daughter or Mr James Ross, Governor of the Town’s Hospital, Glasgow.
At 168 Gallowgate Street, on the 10th instant, Mr Claud Turner, jun., aged 26 years.
At 102 Abercromby Street, on the 9th instant, Mary Livingston, wife of Mr John Campbell.
At 19 Croy Place, on the 9th instant, William, youngest son of Mr William Rankin.
At Cragburn, Gourock, on the 9th instant, James Wylie Esq., coppersmith.
At 137 Hope Street, on the 8th instant, Mrs Jane Gibson, in her ninetieth year, relict of Mr Mark Haliburton.
At 106 North Frederick Street, on the 8th instant, William, aged nine months, only son of Mr Peter Montgomerie.
At 137 Cambridge Street, on the 25th ultimo, Mr George Milne, wine merchant, grandson of the late Bailie George Milne of Glasgow, and second cousin to the late Lord Jeffrey.
DEATH FROM NIGHT EXPOSURE [abbreviated][02] – Between the hours of six and seven o’clock on Saturday morning, a man was found lying about the middle of the King’s Park, Glasgow Green, in a state of insensibility...the belief that the man had been drinking all night, and having laid himself down on the Green, insensibility had been produced by exposure to the night air. On being searched, a marriage-line was found in his possession, with the name “John Newman” married at Dalry in 1847. The unfortunate individual never spoke and died in the course of the same afternoon. Deceased appeared to be about 40 years of age, and had the appearance of a railway labourer. The body still remains in the receiving house unclaimed.
SUDDEN DEATH [02] – About twelve o’clock on Saturday, a man named Charles Carmichael, a grain carrier at the Broomielaw, was observed to drop down at the foot of Dixon Street, Great Clyde Street. The watchman on the station, who observed the occurrence, had the man immediately carried into the sheds at the Customs House Quay, where it was found that life had fled. Carmichael, it appeared from the statement of the person with whom he had lodged, had been drinking pretty hard of late, and for two days previous to his death had taken no nourishment. Death was, therefore, no doubt the result of intemperance. Deceased was about 70 years of age.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT – On Tuesday forenoon a melancholy event occurred on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway at Windmill Hill, about four miles south of this town. A long line of empty trucks were returning northwards, and the party in charge of it having run short of coke, proposed drawing up at the place named, for the purpose of procuring a supply. With this in view they shut off the steam, and before the train came to a stand, the fireman, Philip Lawson, descended between the engine and the trucks for the purpose of disconnecting them by unhooking the chain. In doing this he fell before the wheels of the trucks which going over his head crushed him to death. – Berwick Advertiser.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT DUNLOP [abbreviated] – While the kirk officer of the parish of Dunlop, James Anderson, 78 years of age, was proceeding to ring the evening bell at 9 o’clock (in absence of his son, who was wont to do the task for him, but who had proceeded that day to Glasgow on business), he thought the work would be easier done by going nearer the bell. The man fell through a hatch... and was precipitated to the floor beneath. The bell not having been rung, the long absence roused the fears of his family... he was found and removed but expired the next day. He was a worthy type of the old school and had gone out and in the parish church as its officer for more than half a century. – Ayr Observer.
BODY WASHED ASHORE AT BALLANTRAE [abbreviated] – On Sabbath week, about mid-day, the body of Captain McLinty, of the Water Nymph, wrecked on Dowman Point on the 7th ultimo was cast upon the rocks so as to be reached by two men who were on the spot... – Ayr Observer.
MAN FOUND DEAD – CULPABLE HOMICIDE [abbreviated] – Upon Monday morning last, William Campbell, a miner at Grasswater, between Cumnock and Muirkirk, was found dead near that place. He is believed to have been murdered by an Irish labourer with whom he was drinking pretty freely on the previous night... Campbell was a much stouter man than his opponent... Ayr Advertiser.
15th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At 8 Morris Place, on the 14th instant, Mrs David Binnie, a daughter.
At 2 Somerset Place, on the 13th instant, Mrs Paterson, a son.
At 11 Carnarvon Street, St George’s Road, Mrs William J Copplestone, a daughter.
At Maxwell Street, on the 13th instant, Mrs John Fulton jun., a son.
At 140 Hospital Street, Glasgow, on the 13th instant, Mrs Andrew Shaw, a son.
At Balgray Bank Villa, on the 13th instant, Mrs Hunter Finlay, a daughter.
At 341 Buchanan Street, Cleland Testimonial, on the 13th instant, Mrs Henry Hutchison, a son.
At Dunlop Street, on the 12th instant, Mrs WC Morison, a son.
At 18 Saltmarket Street, on the 13th instant, Mrs Charles Wilson, a daughter.
At 1 Surrey Place, on the 10th instant, Mrs Walter Hill, a son.
At Langloan, on the 10th instant, Mrs John Couper, a son.
At 96 South Portland Street, on the 9th instant, Mrs John Taylor jun., a son.
At Beech Hill, Campbelton, on the 9th instant, Mrs George Melville, a daughter.
MARRIAGES [02]
At 11 George Street, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Dr. R Paton of St David’s, James PP Lester Esq., surgeon, of St John, NB, to Mary Campbell, only daughter of John McDonald Esq., Glasgow.
At 68 Charlotte Street, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Muir of St James’s, William Waddell Esq., to Mary Graham, eldest daughter of Mr John Wilson of Eastpark.
At Ladybank, parish of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire, on the 12th instant, John Burns Esq., accountant, Edinbirgh, to Jane, daughter of Charles Boyd, Esq., of Ladybank.
At Maryhill, on the 12th instant, by the Rev. Robert Wilson, William Swan Esq., to Helen, second daughter of the late John Morrison Esq., Kelvin Dock.
At 4 Findlay Street, Cowcaddens, Glasgow, on the 11th instant, by Professor John Eadie, DD, LLD, Mrs David Peterkin, painter, to Ann Fraser, relict of Mr W Walker.
DEATHS [02]
At 194 Renfrew Street, on the 14th instant, William Charles, infant son of Jno. Church, Esq.
At 77 Garscube Road, on the 14th instant, David, infant son of Mr John Walker.
At 1 Surrey Place, on the 14th instant, the infant son of Mr Walter Hill.
At 54 Stewart Street, Cowcaddens, on the 13th instant, Jane Lang, spouse of Mr Neil McBryde, provision merchant.
Suddenly, on the 13th instant, at 4 Houston Street, South Kinning Place, Paisley Road, Mrs Mary Stuart Drummond or Charles, daughter of the late Thomas Drummond Esq., of Deanstoun, and relict of Mr George Charles, Alloa.
At 57 York Street, on the 12th instant, Mr Robert Cowan.
At 106 North Frederick Street, on the 13th instant, of Typhus fever, Mr Patrick Rattray, builder.
At Milngavie, on the 12th instant, Peter brown, youngest son of Mr Alexander Walker, jun., baker.
At Shitterflat, on the 12th instant, Margaret Cochrane, in the eighty-seventh year of her age, relict of Robert Stevenson Esq., of Shitterflat.
At Blackfalls, Rutherglen, on the 11th instant, Mr Robert Anderson, late coal-master of the Milton and Lowmuir Coal Works.
At 3 Gloucester Street, Tradeston, on the 11th instant, after a lingering illness, Mary McGeachy, wife of Captain John Barclay.
At Knockenreoch, Isle of Bute, on the 11th instant, Janet Martin, aged 74 years, spouse of Mr Duncan McMullan, farmer.
At 23 Newton Place, Glasgow, on the 10th instant, Mrs Alexander Field.
At 25 Canning Street, Calton, on the 10th instant, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr John Lang, tailor and clothier.
Suddenly, at 44 Porchester Terrace, London, on the 10th instant, Major James Anderson of Hainault Hall, Essex.
Suddenly, at Havering Bower, Essex, on the 2d instant, George Rankine Esq.
On the 9th instant, Barbara, aged 79 years, daughter of the late Archibald McBrair Esq.
At Torrans(?), Aros, Island of Mull, on the 8th instant, John, aged 23 years and 9 months, eldest son of Archibald McKinnon Esq.
At Bothwell Manse, on the 7th instant, Sarah Forrest, wife of the Rev. Dr. Gardiner.
At Cheltenham, on the 4th instant, Mr John Morrison, brewer, late of Alloa.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT [02] – On Tuesday forenoon, between eleven and twelve o’clock, a labourer, named Michael Scanlan, employed at the sugar refinery of Messrs. Ferguson & Co. Inverkip Street, Greenock, lost his balance and fell head foremost into one of the cisterns containing the boiling sugar. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but his removal to the Infirmary was found necessary. Though, as might be expected, very severely injured, we understand hopes are yet entertained of his ultimate recovery.
18th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At Graham’s Buildings, George Street, on the 17th instant, Mrs Robert Speirs, a son.
At 239(?) Argyll Street, on the 17th instant, Mrs Charles Morrison, a son.
At Rutland Place, Govan Road, on the 16th instant, Mrs TA Porteus, a son.
At St Andrew’s Square, on the 16th instant, Mrs James Mitchell, a son.
At Dumbarton, on the 15th instant, Mrs John Denny, a son.
At Helensburgh, on the 15th instant, Mrs Robert Walker, a daughter.
At Ardbeg, Bute, on the 13th instant, Mrs James Marshall, a son.
At Bloomfield Place, Hillhead, on the 11th instant, Mrs John Kerr Orr, a son.
At Dunfermline, on the 11th instant, the wife of the Rev. James French, a daughter.
At Lothian Bridge, near Dalkeith, on the 10th instant, Mrs John Murray, three daughters – two being still-born.
MARRIAGES [02]
At Glasgow, on the 15th instant, by the Rev. Principal Macfarlane, Mr John Crauford, manufacturer, to Janet Graham, only daughter of Mr John Munro, Glasgow.
At Liverpool, on the 14th instant, William Morrison Esq., commission merchant, Glasgow, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Roderick MacLeod, Esq., merchant, Liverpool.
At London, on the 13th instant, John Scott Esq., late of Glasgow, to Emily, second daughter of George Granger Esq., London.
DEATHS [02]
At 144 Bath Street, on the 17th instant, Margaret, youngest daughter of the late James Towers Esq., Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow.
At Croy Place, Glasgow, on the 17th instant, Janet park, wife of Mr Thomas Aitken, spirit-dealer.
At Baldarroch, Campsie, on the 16th instant, Margaret Salmond, infant daughter of Mr Robert Young.
At 27 Kirk Street, Townhead, on the 15th instant, after a lingering illness, Janet Fraser, aged 46 years, wife of Mr George Sutherland.
At Boquhan, on the 15th instant, of croup, Thomas Bryce, second son of Thomas Bryce Buchanan Esq., of Boquhan.
At Millport, on the 14th instant, Ann, aged 17 years, eldest daughter of Mr Francis Chapman, watchmaker, Brunswick Street, Glasgow.
At Dalsholm, on the 14th instant, the infant son of Alexander Macarthur Esq.
At the house of her son, Largo Place, New City Road, on the 14th instant, Janet L Houston, aged 78 years, relict of Mr Alexander Denman(?), Newton, Ayr, and eldest daughter of the late Mr James Houston, long one of the magistrates of Girvan.
At Shitterflat, Beith, on the 12th instant, Margaret Cochrane, aged 76 years, relict of Mr Robert Stevenson, horse-dealer there.
Suddenly, as Ramelton, county Donegal, on the 9th instant, Mary, wife of John Ward, Esq., manufacturing chemist there.
BODY FOUND [02] – On the afternoon of Saturday, the body of a girl named Jessie Nisbet, who had been missing since Tuesday last, was found in the canal basin at Garngad Hill, by a labourer. The body was conveyed to the mother of the deceased, in Gallowgate Street.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT LOCHBROOM – On the morning of Tuesday, the 5th instant, a fatal accident occurred in the river here, to an excellent young girl of the name of Ann Cameron, from Little Lochbroom. She was fording the Bigstrath river, at the ford, on her journey to the low country to service, when she lost her footing, and was swept away by the rapid current. The body was found shortly afterwards, about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the accident. – Inverness Courier.
DEATH OF MR RAMSAY OF BARNTON [abbreviated] – The death of this gentleman took place on Friday forenoon at Barnton House, near Edinburgh. He died of an attack of pleurisy, from which he had suffered only a few days. Mr Ramsay was possessed of estates in Mid-Lothian and Stirlingshire, to an extent popularly conferring on him (whether correctly or not we do not say) the distinction of “the richest commoner in Scotland”... Mr Ramsay was the eldest and only son of the late Mr George Ramsay of Barnton, and of the Hon. Jean, sister of the late Lord Belhaven. He was born in the year 1809, and was consequently forty-one years of age at the period of his death. He was married in the year 1828 to the Hon. Mary, daughter of Lord Torphichen, (by whom he has left one son an infant), who will heir the estates of Barnton and Sauchie. – Scotsman of Saturday.
FATAL AND MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE [abbreviated] – On Wednesday morning, the body of a man was found in the river on the north side of the harbour here, between Lotteryhall and the ship-building yard of Messrs. Sloan and Gemmell. It was speedily ascertained to be the body of a carver in the employment of Mr Wilson, upholsterer, of the name of James McKilligan, a native of Glasgow. For the last two weeks he had been lying ill of a fever in his residence in Garden Street... Exhausted from her lengthened and continuous attendance upon her husband, Mrs McKilligan about midnight had fallen asleep.. on awakening she found her husband had risen and left the house... deceased was about 40 years of age, and has left a wife and three children, to lament their melancholy bereavement, for whom, we believe, subscriptions have been set on foot. – Ayr Advertiser.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT [abbreviated] – We regret to announce the death of Mr John Smith, writer in Elgin, second son of Mr Smith of Grangehill, near Forfar, who lost his life on Saturday evening... Mr Smith, accompanied by his father and a Mr Ross of Nairn were returning from the latter place to Elgin in a dog cart late on Saturday evening, when near Forres their horse ran off, and the man was thrown out upon the road and killed... – Courant.
MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE [abbreviated] – The schooner L.O.C. Doyle, of Glasgow, Captain Andrew Johnstone, bound from Liverpool to Ap###de (Denmark), with a cargo of salt, struck last Saturday, 9th instant, about 9pm, during a heavy gale of wind, on a sunken rock about six miles from Glass Light Island of Lewis, when she stove in her bottom... Captain Johnstone, who was much respected, belonged to Annan, and has left a wife and young family to lament his loss, William Copeland, the mate, was a native of Dumfries, and unmarried. The survivors are, Henry Smith and Charles Smith, able seamen; and John Chrystie and Ronald Morison, ordinary seamen; they saved nothing but what they had on. – Daily Mail.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN PAISLEY [02] – A serious occurrence took place at Messrs. Coats’ large addition to their works at Ferguslie, on Saturday afternoon last. In the erection of a heavy cornice on the east wing, the cornice and parapet had nearly been completed, when, by some overbalancing of the stones or scaffolding, a portion of a parapet and several of the large cornice stones were thrown over, and one of Mr Bowes’ builders, named William McCreath, who was at that portion of the building at the time, was precipitated over with them, and fell from a height of sixty feet. His death was instantaneous. He was for many years in Mr Bowes’ employment, and was a very steady and well-behaved man. He has left a wife and family to lament his melancholy death.
22nd March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At 40 Oxford Street, on the 21st instant, Mrs JA Balfour, a son.
At 11 Coates’ Crescent, Edinburgh, on the 20th instant, Mrs Robert Monteith of Carstairs, a daughter.
At St George’s Road, on the 19th instant, Mrs William Chalmers, a son.
At 229 Cowcaddens Street, Glasgow, on the 18th instant, Mrs Calbert, a daughter.
On the 18th instant, the wife of Mr John Nimmo, Underground Manager, Kinnell Iron Works, a daughter.
At 357 St Vincent Street, on the 17th instant, the wife of the Rev. Dr. McGilvray, a son.
At the Royal Hotel, Glasgow, on the 17th instant, Mrs Comrie, a son.
At 39 Gallowgate, on the 17th instant, Mrs George Brown, a son.
At 16 Adelphi Street, on the 17th instant, Mrs Bryce Rankin, twins, son and daughter.
At Rosemound, East Kilbride, on the 17th instant, Mrs John Paterson, a daughter.
At 16 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on the 17th instant, Mrs GT Chiene, a daughter.
At the Manse of Kilbride, Arran, on the 16th instant, the wife of the Rev. CF Campbell, a son.
At Largs, on the 15th instant, Mrs John Blair, twin sons, one of them still-born.
At Slateford Manse, on the 12th instant, Mrs Thomson, a daughter.
At New Orleans, on the 16th ultimo, Mrs John Yuille, a son.
MARRIAGES [02]
At 5 Raukine Street, Johnstone, on the 20th instant, by the Rev. JM Austin, Mr John Barr, Glasgow, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr William Taylor.
At 30 Lynedoch Street, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. John Edgar of Hutton, Berwickshire, A Logan Edgar Esq., merchant, Glasgow, to Helen, eldest daughter of the late John Ferguson Sharpe Esq., of Orchardton.
At Millbrae, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Gray of Kincardine, Mr Matthew Gray, Peel Street Works, to Agnes, only daughter of Robert Kaye, Esq., of Millbrae.
At Nursery Hall, Ayr, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. Dr. McQuhae, St Quivox, William Guthrie Esq., Secretary to the Glasgow Water Company, to Jessie Hannah, only daughter of the late John Smith Esq., Kilmarnock.
At 171 Douglas Street, Blythswood Square, on the 18th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Hill College, Alexander Burrell Esq., Law Secretary to the Western Bank of Scotland, to Marion, youngest daughter of the late John Forbes Esq.
At Greenock, on the 18th instant, by the Rev. John W Borland, Gillespie United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, Mr Francis Watson, manager, Greenhead Mill, Glasgow, to Mary Galbraith, relict of William Mitchell Esq., Glasgow.
At Paisley, on the 15th instant, by the Rev. Mr Pollock of the Free South Church, Mr William Robertson, to Janet, eldest daughter of Mr John Peters, Patterhill.
At Govan, on the 13th instant, by the Rev. Professor Lindsay of the United Presbyterian Church, Mr William Allan, baker, to Marion, youngest daughter of the late Mr Alexander park, baker, Glasgow.
DEATHS [02]
At Richmond Lane, Gallowgate, on the 21st instant, Mary Glover, aged two months, daughter of Mr James Simson, wright.
At 114 Campbell Street West, on the 30th instant, Mrs McBraid, aged 79 years.
At 118 Holm Street, on the 20th instant, Mr Peter McNicol, aged 62 years.
At 3 Kinning Place, on the 20th instant, Alexander, infant son of Mr John Mackintosh.
At her son’s house, 8 Morris Place, on the 18th instant, Janet Haddow, in the sixty-ninth year of her age, wife or Mr William Fell.
At Largo Place, New City Road, on the 18th instant, of inflammation of the throat, Robert John, aged five years and four months, eldest son of Mr Robert Byres.
Suddenly, at 95 Whitevale, on the 18th instant, of croup, Hugh, youngest son of Mr William Neilson, builder.
At Great Yarmouth, on the 17th instant, in her seventy-fifth year, Mary Palgrave, wife of Dawson Turner Esq., and mother-in-law of Sir William Hooker, late of this city, and now of Kew, Surrey.
At Rachilla, on the 17th instant, William Johnstone Esq., eldest son of John J Hope, on the 16th instant, Mr John Brown, of Bella Brae, late Provost of Kilmarnock, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
At the farm of East Glenback, in the parish of Muirkirk, on the 13th instant, Mr James McKersie sen., in the 75th year of his age. While the deceased was alive the united ages of him and his three surviving brothers amounted to upwards of 301 years. It is the more remarkable as this is the first death in the family.
At 45 Eglinton Street, on the 15th instant, Mr Patrick Gray, aged 72.
At Leeds, on the 12th instant, Jane Coghill, aged 48 wife of Mr S Barbour, Superintendent of the Leeds Town Mission, formerly of Glasgow.
25th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At Wilson Street, Hillhead, on the 24th instant, Mrs Andrew Hamilton, a daughter.
At 31 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, on the 23d instant, Mrs AM Bolton, a daughter.
At 54 Abbotsford Place, on the 23d instant, Mrs Clarke, a son, still-born.
At Underwood Cottage, Paisley, on the 22d instant, Mrs James J Lamb, a son.
At 19 Cassel’s Place, Leith, on the 19th instant, Mrs Thomas Buchan, a son and heir.
MARRIAGES [02]
At St George’s Chapel, Edinburgh, on the 21st instant, by the Rev. TG Suther, Charles Farquhar Shand Esq., advocate, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Harvey of Castlesemple and Mousewald, KH.
At Ibroxholm, Glasgow, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Leishman, Mr James Kirkwood, Dunbar, to Marion Blake, eldest daughter of George Ewing Esq., solicitor-at-law.
DEATHS [02]
At Ayr, on the 23d instant, suddenly, of disease of the heart, Mr Dugald McColl, late Governor of the South prison, Glasgow, aged 66(?) years – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 26 Cook Street, Tradeston, on the 23d instant, Margaret Whiteside, wife of Mr John Cochran. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At Edinburgh, on the 23d instant, John Walker Arnott Esq., WS.
At Swindrige House, on the 22d instant, William Smith Neill Esq., of Barnweill and Swindrigemuir, Lieut.-Colonel of the Prince Regent’s Royal Regiment of Ayr Militia, and a Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.
At 5 Stockwell Place, on the 22d instant, Jessie Shanks, aged four years and nine months, eldest daughter of Mr William Coverly jun.
At Strathaven, on the 21st instant, James, infant son of Mr David Brown, merchant.
At 1 Main Street, Anderston, on the 19th instant, Fanny McMutrie, relict of Mr Donald McLean, calenderer.
Suddenly, at Hornbank, Govan Road, on the 18th instant, James Graham Esq., in the 75th year of his age.
At Prince’s Street, Helensburgh, on the 7th instant, Captain Frederick William George Gray.
FOUND DROWNED – At an early hour this (Thursday) morning, a young man of the age of eighteen or nineteen apparently, was found lying in Kilmarnock Water, in the vicinity of Borland Bridge.. He was quite dead, and had evidently lain in the water for some hours. It is a matter of conjecture whether the unfortunate youth had gone into the water accidently, or by his own suicidal act. The latter is most likely to have been the case, as the water, at the part of the stream where he was discovered, had scarcely depth enough to cover his body. He was seen on the previous day in a state of intoxication, first in Kilmarnock, and subsequently on the Glasgow Road. The body has not yet been identified, but he is supposed to be one William Boyd, belonging to Kirkmichael, and a slater to trade. – Kilmarnock Journal.
29th March 1850
BIRTHS [02]
At 173 Sauchiehall Street, on the 28th instant, Mrs John Connell, a son.
At 12 Florence Place, on the 25th instant, Mrs James Bruce Sorley, a daughter.
At 4 William Street, Paisley, on the 28th instant, Mrs John Cattanach, a daughter.
At 67 South Portland Street, on the 27th instant, Mrs Peter Fulton, a daughter.
At Ashburton Place, Garnet Hill, on the 26th instant, Mrs George Hutcheson, a daughter.
At Hogarth House, Chiswick, on the 26th instant, Mrs PY Hill, a daughter.
At Drumley House, on the 25th instant, Mrs Davidson, a son.
At 17 Buccleuch Street, on the 25th instant, Mrs Alexander Wingate, a daughter.
At Westburn farm, Cambuslang, on the 25th instant, Mrs John Paterson, a son.
At 1 Claremont Street, Royal Crescent, on the 24th instant, Mrs David Smith, a son.
At 13 College, Glasgow, on the 23d instant, Mrs Hugh Blackburn, a son.
At 70 Robertson Street, on the 23d instant, Mrs Quintin Browne, a daughter.
MARRIAGES [02]
At Brierland Cottage, Govan, on the 25th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Leishman, Mr William Hood, merchant, London, to Jane Urquhart, eldest daughter of John Morrison Esq., manufacturer, Glasgow.
At 170 West Nile Street, on the 25th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, Robert Brown Esq., wood merchant, to Jane, only daughter of George Purdon Esq., merchant.
At 369 St Vincent Street, on the 28th instant, by the Rev. John Paterson of Anderston Church, Andrew Gibson Corbett Esq., merchant, to Mary Anne, daughter of the late John Stewart Esq., Hyde Park.
At 315 Argyll Street, Glasgow, on the 28th instant, by the Rev. John W Borland, Archibald Campbell, shipmaster, to May, second daughter of the late William Tulloch Esq., merchant, Glasgow.
At Langside Cottage, on the 27th instant, by the Rev. Charles Popham Miles(?), Incumbent of St Jude’s Chapel, Glasgow, Laurence Hill, junior, Esq., to Catherine, daughter of the late Alexander Wardrop, merchant, Glasgow.
At 213 St Vincent Street, on the 27th instant, by the Rev. Jonathan R Anderson, Mr James Miller, merchant, Glasgow, to Susan, daughter of the late Archibald Boag, Esq., Inverkip.
At 118 Great Hamilton Street, on the 26th instant, by the Rev. J Guthrie, Mr Hugh S Morton, to Isabella, eldest daughter of the late Mr John McDowall, Glasgow.
At Old Kilpatrick, on the 26th instant, by the Rev. James Russell, Mr James Cochran, merchant, Glasgow, to Agnes, eldest daughter of the late Mr Walter Crichton, Glasgow.
At Content House, Ayr, on the 25th instant, by the Very Rev. the Dean of Glasgow, David Stevenson Esq., of the Middle Temple and Rio de Janeiro, to Margaret, eldest daughter of George Bushman Esq., of the Queen’s Bays.
At Ayr, on the 25th instant, by the Rev. Alexander Willison of Dundonald, the Rev. William Buchanan, AB., minister of Kilmaurs, to Jane, second and only surviving daughter of the late John Donaldson Esq., Ayr.
At Clyde Street, Anderston, on the 25th instant, by the Rev. John Paterson, Mr Archibald Bennie, merchant, to Agnes Watson, third daughter of the late John Scouller Esq.
DEATHS [02]
At 148 West Nile Street, on the 28th instant, Margaret McLauren Finlayson, eldest surviving daughter of the late John Finlayson Esq., of the Customs. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 4 Lynedoch Crescent, on the 25th instant, Miss Henderson. – Friends will please accept of this intimation.
At 93 Hill Street, Garnet Hill, on the 27th instant, Margaret, daughter of Mr David Buchanan, teacher.
At 7 Cathcart Street, on the 26th instant, William, aged 12 years, only son of Mr William Ross.
At 6 Somerset Place, on the 26th instant, John W Wilson Esq.
At 61 Nelson Street, Tradeston, on the 26th instant, Jane Watson, youngest daughter of Mr David Morrison.
At Kittockside, on the 25th instant, John Reid Esq., in the eighty-ninth year of his age.
At Renfrew Street, on the 25th instant, Mrs Margaret McGrigor, wife of Mr McGrigor, late merchant in Glasgow.
At 190 Hope Street, on the 25th instant, Mr George Campbell, aged 76 years, formerly of Vauxhall Foundry, Liverpool.
At Gartur, Port-of-Menteith, on the 24th instant, Mr George McKerracher, farmer, aged 87 years.
At 36 High Street, Paisley, on the 24th instant, Mrs Robert Taylor.
At Irvine, on the 23d instant, Mr Robert Gemmel, merchant there, in the twenty-fourth year of his age.
On the 20th instant, Jean Milliken, aged 71 years, wife of Mr David French, farmer, Netherton, Crawfordjohn.
At Auldhousefield, on the 19th instant, James Young, Esq. in the eighty-third year of his age.
DEATH OF RICHARD MACKENZIE, ESQ., OF DOLPHINGTON [abbreviated] – The legal profession lately lost two of its brightest ornaments, in the death of Lord Jeffrey and that of Sir James Gibson-Craig, and now it is our painful duty to announce the death of a third, not less prominent in his sphere... joint Deputy-Keeper of her Majesty’s Signet for Scotland, died at his house in Abercromby Place, on Friday last, in the 70th year of his age, and 47th year of his profession as a Writer to the Signet... – Edinburgh Advertiser.
SHOCKING AND FATAL AFFRAY AT DUNDEE [abbreviated] – A little before eight o’clock on Monday evening, while John Crombie, flax-dresser, a native of Aberdeen, was standing at the north-west railings of the Old Burying Ground, Dundee, conversing with a young woman named Margaret Robertson, mill-worker, they were accosted by two young men named John Stormouth and James Blues, shopkeepers, who, it is said, made an attempt to strike the woman... a scuffle ensued... Crombie was stabbed and expired at the Police Station... – Coutant.
ARRON, MARCH 21 – MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT – [abbreviated][02] – On Monday, the 19th instant, as Peter Crawford, North Kiscadle, Whiting Bay, and his two sons, were taking a cargo of seaware from Kildonan shore, when off the Dipping shore a smart breeze met them from the north... the boat soon shipped and leaked... the father and eldest son swam for the beach... were soon exhausted of had got entangled in the long seaweed that grows there... within a few yards of the shore they sank... One of the spectators was one of Crawford’s daughters... the son who remained in the half-sunken boat was saved by the crew of another boat. The bodies have not yet been found. – Ayr Observer.
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