My Hose Connection

camweh · Post by **camweh** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:37 am

Some years ago I was searching for my HOSE connection. No, not in the garden shed. I was searching for details relating to my Gt-Gt grandmother Isabella HOSE who was born in Dailly, Ayrshire in 1849 and was christened in New Dailly.

At our genealogical society here in Australia I asked an enthusiastic volunteer where they thought Dailly was in relation to New Dailly. Before I realised what was going on I was looking at a map of India. We had a good laugh over that.

Hughie in Oz

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:49 am

Hi Hughie

http://www.ayrshirepaths.org.uk/histdailly.htm will explain the relationship between New and Old Dailly........

David

camweh · Post by **camweh** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:24 am

Thanks for that David, many of my incoming Irish ancestors seemed to stop for a while in South Ayrshire before spreading out, mainly to the north of the county when Alfred Nobel started his dynamite works at Ardeer in Stevenston in the 1870s.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:27 am

camweh wrote:Thanks for that David, many of my incoming Irish ancestors seemed to stop for a while in South Ayrshire before spreading out, mainly to the north of the county when Alfred Nobel started his dynamite works at Ardeer in Stevenston in the 1870s.

Hi Hughie

If they could afford it people got a boat from Belfast or one of the Antrim coast ports or (London)Derry to Greenock or Glasgow.

If they couldn't afford that then they managed to get across to Portpatrick or somewhere on the Mull of Galloway, or Campbelltown from Portrush/Port Stewart/(London)Derry. It's then very common to find a movement over the years up to North Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow, and beyond, if, of course, they didn't save up their pennies and take a boat for America!

David

PS Great to see another Chic fan

camweh · Post by **camweh** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:42 am

Right David, some of my ancestors would have come through Portpatrick 'cause they settled for a time in Girvan. In later years, around 1900, my granny McGregg, her three sisters and a brother are believed to have come straight to Ardrossan from Belfast. There was a large contingent of Irish living around Ardrossan - there were regular sailings to and from Belfast.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:40 pm

camweh wrote:Right David, some of my ancestors would have come through Portpatrick 'cause they settled for a time in Girvan. In later years, around 1900, my granny McGregg, her three sisters and a brother are believed to have come straight to Ardrossan from Belfast. There was a large contingent of Irish living around Ardrossan - there were regular sailings to and from Belfast.

Hughie

Could even have been direct into Girvan harbour

, as most of the Ayrshire/Galloway/Kintyre ports had regular connections across to Ulster back then ......

David