Movement of family lines

The direct family lines as followed so far were centred in counties in England’s West Midlands and North West, in the north of Ireland and in south west Scotland and Glasgow.

Both sides of the paternal line were living in the north of Ireland before emigrating to Scotland. The male side was living in Co. Down before emigrating in the mid-1800s to south-west Scotland (the county of Wigtownshire as it was then called (now Dumfries and Galloway)); while the female side had, during the 1800s, settled in Glasgow. From Wigtownshire family members later moved on to Glasgow where the two sides came together. It is worth considering that the family living in the north of Ireland may themselves have been emigrants to the area from Scotland during the plantation era in the late 1600s.

On the maternal side one line was centred in Shropshire, the male side from at least the late 18^th century; while the female side, from at least the early 19^th century, was from Worcestershire. It was at the end of the 1800s when both these lines moved to Cheshire, possibly for the job prospects offered by the railway industry.

With both lines, of course, those who moved to a new area inter-mingled with families already resident in those areas through marriage.