Dear blog reader
This is the sixth 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
GREENOCK ADVERTISER, TUESDAY 11TH APRIL 1848
At West Shandon, on the 1st instant, Mrs James Dunlop, of a son.
GREENOCK ADVERTISER, FRIDAY 20TH JULY 1849
At Lagbouie, Shandon, on the 10th instant, Mrs Turner, of a daughter
PAISLEY HERALD AND RENFREWSHIRE ADVERTISER, SATURDAY 21ST OCTOBER 1865
At the Free Manse, Shandon, on the 18th instant, the wife of the Rev A M MacCallum, a son
GLASGOW HERALD, WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY, 1879
MacKenzie – at West Shandon, on 23d inst., the wife of G R MacKenzie, a son
MARRIAGES
GLASGOW CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY 28TH OCTOBER 1846
At Shandon, on the 20th inst., by the Rev John Laurie Fogo, of Row, Charles Wilson Browne, Esq., to Ellen, daughter of Walter Buchanan, Esq., of Shandon, Dumbartonshire
MONTROSE REVIEW, FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST 1849
Aug. 22 – at West Shandon, Dumbartonshire, William Rigby, Esq. of Portsmouth, to Jane, second daughter of Robert Napier, Esq. of Shandon, engineer, Glasgow
FALKIRK HERALD, THURSDAY 26TH JUNE 1851
At Helensburgh, on the 19th inst., Walter Buchanan, Esq., of Shandon, to Christina Laura, eldest daughter of James Smith, Esq., of Jordan Hill
CALEDONIAN MERCURY, MONDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 1852
At West Shandon, Dumbartonshire, on the 28th ult., Alexr. Hastie, Esq., MP for the CIty of Glasgow, to Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Napier, Esq, engineer, Glasgow
DUNDEE COURIER, FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER 1891
At 16 Belhaven Terrace, Glasgow, on the 21st inst., by the Rev Alex Hislop, MA, of Helensburgh, assisted by the Rev Hugh Miller, MA, of Shandon, Walter T MacLellan, second son of the late Walter MacLellan of Blairvaddick, Dumbartonshire, to Jane Adair, only daughter of the late James Whyte, Wardfield, Helensburgh
DUNDEE COURIER, TUESDAY 11TH AUGUST 1908
Neville – Hall – at the Anchorage, Row, Glasgow, on the 7th inst., by the Rev Hugh Miller, Shandon, Richard S Neville, Coatbridge, to Sarah Irvine, second daughter of the late James Hall, Row
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