1860's kilt photo - opinions requested! Costume or own kilt?

[georgeetta]

MY grgrgrunnie Janet Douglas Morrison b about 1840 was born in New Monklands too. Her Da John Douglass B about 1800-1820 was also a coal miner . She married grgrgrda John Morrison also a coal miner ..tonws mentined were Airlie, Whifflet, Coatbridge ..Whitburn (?) ..they shuffled east to ..Striling area ..

Granda was a coal miner from Cowie ..Stirling ..

there is sights on Coal Mining life ..Lanarkshire etc ..

the mine village owners instilled music fishing and gardening to keep the men off the drink so not to screw up porduction .

about 1924-6 the pit closed in Cowie . An old timer Jim Hutchins was over 100 he was a close family friend and last coal miner I cna think on ..they had a hard life ..that was 1920's ..

there is famous painting ..the iron steel works were close to the coal works ..near Monklands .

there was old and new monklands ..lands reserved for Monks ..land grants ..

there is an extensive church and graveyeard ther with lists of many burials ..

Dave

Cunningham fits the area right ? ..we used to think our Morrisons were Lewis men ..now seems they are more likely .."Buchanan" Morrisons ..

[georgeetta]

http://www.monklands.co.uk/coatbridge/

painting of the mills fired up at night your ancestor left ..it was described as hell at night ..or no difference bewtene day or night ..so lit up ..

"Gartsherrie by night "

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/pictur...R_Stanley_c185

they lived rough ..the water was generally contaminated and piped sometimes right ut the mine into a tub and very black ..my grgrda had lung bothers ..his Granda John Douglas traveled with the family so he was probably infirmed too at 70 or so ..in Stirling Bannockburn area ..

there's lots on ..miners ..get lucky you might get name of pit and address shoudl be no bother to check ..we get free geneology stuff at library ..ancestry.com ..line up 1850-1860 name and family and work backward or slide over to parish records ..or births ..

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