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Phaup Family
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These were the children of William Phaup of Maddiston and his wife Margaret Yule.
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William Buchanan
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Captain in Royal Navy
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Alexander Callander
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Alexander Callander was a Teller with Falkirk Banking Co (in 1811) and Curator Bonis of his father.
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James Dennistoun
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Captain
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Elizabeth Crawford
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Nearest and lawful heir of provision in general to Helen Gilchrist residing in Falkirk.
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Jean Archibald
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Robert Russell
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Robert Russell of Dalnair was a cloth merchant in Falkirk and lived in Grahams Road. He was also an active and acquisitive landholder.
He owned lands in Seabegs and also acquired adjacent subjects at Underwood from Major –General Straton, which included the Distillery of which More was a tenant. He also owned subjects in Baillie Swords Close in Falkirk and there was a long standing family interest in the Lands of Garbethill in east Dunbartonshire, dating from 1763 and probably earlier. Robert Russell frequently acquired properties by exercise of rights deriving from Bonds in his favour following non-payment of sums due by the granters including family members who had interests in the lands, much of which reverted to Robert Russell subsequent to his lending to them and their granting Bonds in his favour for sums which they were unable to repay. Much of the material relating to family succession is complex but it is clear that Robert Russell was a successful, but hard and uncompromising, businessman, whether dealing with family members or others. The papers provide evidence of Robert Russell‘s antecedents from the beginning of the 18th Century when John Russell, son of William Russell, Woodseller in Langside, married Margaret Gilmore of the family which owned Seabegs. The Russell family also had a landholding at Garbethill in Dunbartonshire which dated from the early 18th century or before. Robert Russell married Janet Melville, daughter of Robert Melville, wood merchant in Falkirk, and there was a post-nuptial Marriage Contract Trust. The papers show some evidence of distrust and antipathy from the Melvilles, particularly A Melville, a writer in Edinburgh. Robert Russell and Janet Melville had five children: Jane Russell, John Russell, Alex Russell, Robert Melville Russell and Thomas Melville Russell. Robert Russell died in 1855. |
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Robert Walker
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Alexander Callander
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Grazier
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James Bell
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James Bell was a farmer at Pocknave Mill and owned Dalquhairn/Paixhole Farm, 1831-1845 and Mains of Bothkennar until 1843 when it was sold to Carron Co.
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Joseph Dawson
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Manager for Carron Co.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Brother of John Hamilton (Farmer, Above the Wood) and William Hamilton (Farmer, Above the Wood) and executor of John Hamilton's deed of settlement.
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Listening Post, The
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Scott, Andrew
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A.Scott owned the aerated manufacturing business in Falkirk. c. 1898.
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Trustees of James Morrison Trust
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James Morrison (Smith, Bainsford).
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Daily Post Printers
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Jock Mitchell
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Was a post boy circa 1870s
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Walkers Select Series
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David A Tait
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David Alexander Tait was born on 16 December 1879 and articled to George Deas Page of Falkirk in June 1897, remaining with him as an assistant from 1902 until 1903. During his time with Page he attended Falkirk School of Science and Art and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1903 he commenced practice on his own account in Grangemouth, entering into partnership with a slightly younger apprentice at Page's, Henry Wilson, the firm being named Wilson & Tait. He was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911 without proposers, his nomination being supported by a character reference from the chairman of Grangemouth Public School Board. He appeared in 'Who's who in architecture' in 1914 but not in 1923.
Wilson & Tait appear to have briefly had an office in Edinburgh at 122 George Street from about 1913-15. Presumably this was to to enable them to undertake a particular job in the city but this has not yet been traced. They also had a branch office in Jedburgh in the mid-1930s, presumably to oversee projects there. Tait retired in 1937. In the same year Henry Wilson merged his practice with that of Strang & Wilson, James Strang also having retired in that year, the combined practice of Wilson & Wilson being now based in Strang's office at 39 Vicar Street, Falkirk. [Source: Dictionary of Scottish Architects, accessed 22 Nov 2012 http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/ ] |
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Teind Office
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The Teind Office was responsible for valuation of lands in a parish and allocation of teinds (tithes) to heritors.
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