The Kilted Ancestors Immediate for July was Weaving & Textiles.
A fantastic lots of my household labored in Weaving & Textiles. A few of my later McBeath Ancestors originated from Blackford in Perthshire. On marrying Jane McDermid, William McBeath would transfer to Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire the place he would work as a Woollen Weaver from in regards to the 1840s till his dying.
His siblings had labored in a wide range of occupations together with shoemaking, stone masonry & agriculture.
Though initially well-known for material manufacturing Tillicoultry’s first mill would open within the 1790s. Many extra adopted & by the 1830s steam powered mills have been launched alongside the Tillicoultry Burn. This might see a dramatic rise in inhabitants which included William & his household.
Tillicoultry 1861/2 – Perthshire OS – Artistic Commons – CC-BY – NLS Map Assortment
William & Jane would have 4 kids lots of whom would work at a younger age as piecers or winders in native factories in Tillicoultry.
Through the years the factories in Tillicoultry would produce a wide range of materials together with plaids, tweeds, tartans, blankets & shawls.
Many different relations would additionally comply with William to Tillicoultry & into the commerce as did those that married into the McBeath household. A whole lot of them lived shut to 1 one other on the streets that housed the millworkers cottages, most of which nonetheless stay to at the present time.
It’s stated {that a} weaver’s wage could possibly be 3 occasions that of a miner & in these days as weavers needed to have a greater customary of training in order to work out the often-complicated patterns.
By 1870 there have been stated to be 12 mills within the space, William would stay within the commerce till his dying in 1898.
Weavers rows at Ochil St, Tillicoultry ©Treehouse Family tree
By in regards to the Eighteen Nineties lots of Williams household would go away the commerce for different pursuits.
His son William who had additionally labored within the weaving trade, had by this time began up his personal enterprise working from house as a Draper/Tweed Producer. With many of the household transferring away from the city William Junior would make the transfer alongside along with his household to Innerleithen, Peebles the place he labored as a supplier in Tweeds.
Tartan Weaving – Picture Public Area – Wikicommons
I really like taking a drive by to Tillicoultry & wanting on the beautiful rows of homes my Ancestors lived in. Inside the city many clues to the cities weaving trade nonetheless exist together with Sterling Mills Furnishings Warehouse Constructing which was initially Devondale Mill.
Might it’s that my love for Tartan has really been handed down in my genes!
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