Anyone know anything about Eaglesham?

[johnniegarve]

Sheila, you will get that song online someplace, with music!
johnniegarve.

[Currie]

It doesn’t get much better than this for nostalgia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtiWAh7sTJ8

Adam McNaughton has some great stuff on YouTube.

Alan

p.s. wheresthepath is a great little set-up johnniegarve

[Muriel]

My lot lived in Eaglesham (Eagles-ham for me!) (Polnoon Street) for about 15 years. They moved from Lochwinnoch, where I guess they were also tenants of the Earls of Eglinton. They were cotton spinners & arrived about 1815/20 & most, but not all, had moved to Glasgow by 1841. Bet some of them had their shoes mended by your ggg Sheila

Muriel

[Montrose Budie]

For me the pronunciation has always been Eaglesh[a/u]m, with the [a/u] intended to mean that the vowel value is somwhere between an "a" and a "u", and with no pause between the syllables.

mb

[sheilajim]

Hi All,
Alan, thanks for giving me that wonderful YouTube site. I never dreamed there was so much old Scottish songs there.

Muriel- I wouldn't be a bit surprised if my GGG repaired your old rellies shoes.

I really got lucky with Eaglesham. So far all of the other addresses where my old rellies lived seem to be torn down. I have other addresses that don't give street names, but things like Loch House or Locherby cottage. Not much help finding places with those kind of addresses.

Regards

[johnniegarve]

Well Done Alan!

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings to Anne H, post of April 30th, and Murial above.

Anne I held off replying to you in the hope that I might have been able to answer your question. However I have yet to find an expert on the Russell’s from that era, so my short answer is I don't. There were several Russell families that arrived in our early days in NZ 1840's to 1860's. Some played pivotal rolls in Government and business, but the one I referred to obtained a grant of land by virtue of signing on, and being a member of the Waikato Militia. Once he got his grant of land he quietly set about being a dairy farmer and raising his family. At the time of his death, reports noted that he was not one who set out to make a name for himself within his community, but had gained the respect of his community, both as a father and as a farmer. The salt of the earth that one could rely on. High praise for those days. When I can answer your question I will get back to you.

To Muriel and others, while I don't doubt that our ancestors most probably had their shoes mended by the cobbler, in those days even small communities had many cobblers. There were no gumboots, and no disposable foot ware like today. Renfrewshire folk had to be adapt with their hands, (look at their crafts.) and life was tough on their boots. In transport, coal mining and farming. While our lot in NZ became farmers and nurseryman / gardeners, boot repairs were like second nature to them, as was leather work on working horse tackle. In 1971 or 1972 I published an article for a Young Farmers magazine, about a farmer still tanning his own cattle hides and making tackle.

Regards, Alan SHARP.

[Muriel]

I know Alan but it's nice to imagine a link - a bit like finding a distant cousin!

Muriel

[Anne H]

Hello Alan,

Thanks for your response. I'll keep NZ in mind as I continue to research those Russell's...just in case something ties in.

Regards,
Anne H

[Currie]

Hello Sheila,

It’s amazing what people put on YouTube. You name it, it’s there. There’s videos about taking out the garbage, instructions on how to open a cardboard box, many, many videos showing how to make a bad video, even more demonstrating how to mumble and speak unintelligibly. (I’m thinking of making some of those myself). There’s a lot of good stuff there as well.

Anything you want to know or see or hear it’ll be on YouTube. It’s an even greater source of Universal Knowledge than Wiki.

Alan