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by joette » Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:09 pm
My GGreat-Grandpa Greer was employed as a Mason by the Clyde Trust-presumably repairing the Canal Dykes etc.He had a Clyde Trust house as part of his wages & one of his & his similarly employed brother duties was to fish bodies out of the Canal at Old Kilpatrick & down to Bowling.They had a rowing boat for this duty & my Granny(where I inherited my taste for the goulish) used to love to go & watch them hauling out a corpse.
She would then pass on titbits of what they looked like etc until her Mother found out & she was banned from such activities.
She was only young about six or seven & I am glad to say she didn't turn into a serial killer or anything!Just extremely curious-a lifelong trait which again has been handed down!!
Researching:SCOTT,Taylor,Young,VEITCH LINLEY,MIDLOTHIAN
WADDELL,ROSS,TORRANCE,GOVAN/DALMUIR/Clackmanannshire
CARR/LEITCH-Scotland,Ireland(County Donegal)
LINLEY/VEITCH-SASK.Canada
ALSO BROWN,MCKIMMIE,MCDOWALL,FRASER.
Greer/Grier,Jenkins/Jankins