Dear blog reader
This is the fifth part in a series of Shandon hatches, matches and dispatches that have appeared in the newspapers.
I always find such finds very exciting in my own 30 years of family history research and I hope this helps anyone doing similar Shandon-based research.
(Glossary: inst/instant means of the present month, relict means widow, ult/ultimo means of last month)
BIRTHS
GLASGOW COURIER, SATURDAY 8 APRIL 1848
At West Shandon, on the 1st inst, Mrs James Dunlop, of a son.
MARRIAGES
GLASGOW COURIER, THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1844
At 58 Renfield Street, on the 12th inst, by the Rev N Brodie of Shandon, Peter Walker, Esq, Rockbank, Helensburgh, to Margaret, daughter of the late Duncan McMurrich, Esq.
GREENOCK ADVERTISER, FRIDAY 24 JULY 1846
At Faslane, Dumbartonshire, on the 21st instant, by the Rev Mr Brodie, Shandon, Duncan Mitchell, Esq, Blairvockie, Stirlingshire, to Robina, daughter of Parian MacFarlane, Esq.
GREENOCK ADVERTISER, FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 1846
At Shandon, on the 20th instant, by the Rev John Lawrie, of Row, Charles Wilsone Brown, Esq, to Ellen, daughter of Walter Buchanan, Esq, of Shandon, Dumbartonshire.
GLASGOW HERALD, MONDAY 12 JUNE 1848
At Rossburnlane, Blairdrummond, on the 9th instant, by the Rev Peter Sawers, Gargunnock, Mr Donald McLean, gardener at West Shandon, Gareloch, to Janet, youngest daughter of Mr Daniel McNie, farmer, Blairdrummond
NORTH BRITISH DAILY MAIL, SATURDAY 23 JUNE 1849
At 17, Fitzroy Place, Glasgow, on the 14th inst, by the Rev Neil Brodie of Shandon, Row, Dumbertonshire, Allan Cuthbertson, Esq, to Isabella, daughter of the late David Lillie, Esq.
GLASGOW CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST 1849
At West Shandon, Dumbartonshire, on the 22nd instant, by the Rev Dr Napier, William Rigby, Esq, of Portsmouth, to Jane, second daughter of Robert Napier, Esq, of Shandon, engineer, Glasgow.
DEATHS
CALEDONIAN MERCURY, MONDAY 9 MAY 1842
At Shandon, Gareloch, Dumbartonshire, on the 2nd current, Mr Walter Buchanan.
GLASGOW COURIER, SATURDAY 7 AUGUST 1847
At Shandon, on the 4th inst, Mr Robert Kilgour, Free Church schoolmaster, Shandon, aged fifty-eight.
NATIONAL ADVERTISER AND EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW GAZETTE, SATURDAY 27 MAY 1848
Robert Napier, jun; at West Shandon on the 25th instant, in his twentieth year.
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