James Ford (Foord), a gardener and his wife Isabella Butters
raised
their family of probably 10 children in Auchtermuchty from the
1790’s. James probably died before 1851 but his widow
Esabel Ford (sic) was found with her daughter Ann and son-in-law
John Leishman at 1851 census in Freuchie, Fife. Her birthplace
was recorded as Carpow, Fifeshire and birthdate circa 1766. Carpow
was a hamlet 2 km NE of Abernethy (Perthshire). A baptismal
record was found for Isobel a child of James Butter in Abernethy
on 26 January 1766. Isabel(la) probably died between 1851 and
1855.
From Parish records, census and statutory records the offspring of James Ford and Isabella appear to have been:
2:1 Peter Ford/Foord (My gtx3 grandfather)
2:2 Lindsay Ford/Foord b. 3 March 1793
2:3 Stewart Ford/Foord b. 3 March 1793
2:4 John Ford b. 17 January 1796
2:5 William Ford b.circa 1797
2:6 James Ford b. 25 February 1798
2:7 Douglas Moncrieff Ford b. 22 August 1802
2:8 Ann Ford b.circa 1805
2:9 David Ford b. circa 1809
2:10 Helen Ford b. ?
(N.B. Changes in spelling - Foord/Ford ; also note twins Lindsay and
Stewart, Twin boys have featured in descendants of Ford family)
Generation #2:1
Peter Ford married Isabel Cruickshanks in Auchtermuchty on 30 November
1817. Parish records show that the amount paid for the marriage
was 2/3 (2 shillings, 3 pence). They lived for some years at
Auchtermuchty where their first 4 children were born. The family
moved to Strathmiglo about 1830 where 3 more children were born:
2:1:1 Moncrieff Ford b. 5 October 1823 (twin)
2:1:2 William Pillans Ford b. 5 October 1823 (twin)
2:1:3 Peter Ford b.c. 1826
2:1:4 George Ford b.c. 1828
2:1:5 Lucy Ford b.c. 1830, Strathmiglo
2:1:6 Margaret Ford b.c.1832, Strathmiglo (My gt.gt grandmother)
2:1:7 Campbell Ford b.c.1839, Strathmiglo
(2 deaths recorded at Auchtermuchty may also be of 2 earlier daughters:
1820 Ann Ford, 2 years, measles; 1822 Isabella Ford, 2 years,
croup.)
In 1851 census of Strathmiglo the family was listed living at Main
Street, Cashfeus and all were employed as either Damask weavers or
Linen weavers.
Strathmiglo Parish
Manufactures.- The staple employment of the great body of parishioners
of both sexes in the village is the manufacture of linens. These are
wrought up in great variety, such as diapers, damask, dowlas, linen
checks, and table-linens. In this department of industry, from 500 to
600 persons are engaged. Formerly, the hand-loom weavers were employed
by the extensive manufacturers of Dunfermline, Dundee. and Kirkcaldy,
by means or intermediate agents; but of late, almost the whole trade
has been carried on by resident manufacturers, transacting business on
their own account. There are also in the parish a bleach field and a
spinning-mill, both of which are upon a small scale. Those employed in
weaving are of course paid by the piece, and work from ten to fourteen
hours per day. From the fluctuations in trade, the rate of remuneration
is necessarily very variable. A few years ago, it was double and even
treble its present amount. But although this, in common with other
manufacturing districts, has severely felt the late depression of
trade, very few have here been destitute of employment for any great
length of time; and, small as the wages have been, and still are, it
has not been found necessary, as in many other localities under similar
circumstances, to have recourse to extraordinary measures, to meet the
pressing wants of the population.
Education.- There are five seminaries, viz. the parochial school, a
female school, built by Mr Skene of Pitlour, who allows a small salary
to the teacher, and three subscription schools. These are all
conveniently situated. The parochial school was greatly enlarged by the
heritors a few years ago, and may comfortably contain 150 pupils. A
convenient play-ground was recently purchased by subscription. The
teacher's dwelling is also commodious. He has the maximum salary.
February 1843, Rev. George Middleton
2:1:1 Moncrieff Ford married Janet Thomson, 20 March 1852 at
Strathmiglo. By 1881 census he was a stoker in factory (probably
at the linen factory). His death was reported in 1911 aged 87 at
Strathmiglo. His son, Peter Ford was a jeweller and watchmaker in
partnership with cousin, Peter Galloway in Birmingham.
2:1:2William Pillans Ford married Isabella Petrie, 29 May 1852 at
Strathmiglo. Isabella had been a house servant for James Troup
the proprietor of the powerloom factory that employed 130 men, 160
women, 30 boys and 30 girls. William was probably working at the
factory. His death was reported at Strathmiglo in 1897 at age 73y.
2:1:3Peter Ford married Agnes Rateray (Rattray) in Strathmiglo on
28 Feb 1852 and on 26 May that year the couple sailed from Liverpool on
the “Bourneuf” for Geelong, Australia. Included in
the 754 passengers were many assisted Scottish immigrants. During
the voyage of over 3 months 88 passengers died of measles, diarrhoea,
scarlatina and marasmus – mostly the children under 7 years old.
“..Arrangements for hygiene were primitive or non-existent.
The main deck leaked, so that the two migrant decks were usually
damp. The water closets (toilets) were ‘of inferior
construction and leaky’ … The upper emigrant deck had a
‘disagreeable smell’ while the lower deck was dark and
‘difficult to ventilate’. There was insufficient
hospital accommodation or spare bedding, so that infected mattresses
had to be used again. The matron was useless ‘owing to
physical want of activity or energy’, while Surgeon McKevit was
accused by the passengers of being ‘so grossly intoxicated that
he could not attend to his duty’…”
“Who’s Master? Who’s Man: Australia in the Victorian Age”. Michael Cannon (1971)
Recorded in the Passenger list Peter Ford (26y) and Agnes Ford (25y)
were both Presbyterian and able to “read and write.”
Peter Ford died on March 20 1904 of ‘Cardiac Dilating
Syncope’ at East Burwood, Victoria, aged 77, having lived in
Victoria 52 years. He was described on the death certificate as a
Gardener and was buried at Box Hill Cemetery.
His wife, Agnes (nee Rattray) died at Mahoneys Road, East Burwood on 5
Feb 1907 and is buried at Box Hill. The couple had no children.
2:1:4 George Ford reportedly sailed for Australia in the mid 1850s.
In 1856 he sailed to Dunedin, New Zealand where he married fellow Scot,
Amelia DrummondBruce in 1861.
From Michael King's "History of New Zealand": Scots who came to Otago
and Southland from 1848, for example, were propelled largely by an urge
to escape economic depression and its effects, and by the excoriating
split between the Church of Scotland and Free Church
Presbyterians…. The establishment of Dunedin as a Scottish Free
Church settlement in 1848….with its street names drawn from
Edinburgh, its public buildings in stone and brick, and its scattering
of Queen Anne towers, was still unmistakably Scottish more than 150
years after its foundation.
(From "The Story of the Bruces” - as supplied by Iarene Jelley,(Christchurch) George Ford's great grand-daughter):
Amelia Drummond Bruce was married to George Ford of "Piltower",
Greytown (now called Allanton) at "Ardle Bank", Saddle Hill, on 21st of
June,1861.
George Ford was a native of Piltower, (probably "Pitlour" which was the
estate of the Skene family at Strathmiglo) Fifeshire, Scotland, and had
named his farm for his Birthplace. The farm was on the Momona
road and stretched across the river where the Homestead was
situated. Amelia (known as Emily) and George Ford had a family of
three sons and four daughters all of whom attended the Allanton school.
After the East Taiere Parish provided a church at Allanton, Emily and
her family worshipped there, but before that time weather permitting,
she would walk across the plain to the church at West Taiere.
She took her religion seriously in more than Sabbath observance for she
was a good wife and mother and a kind friend to anyone in need.
Her husband died on 28th May, 1893, aged 64 years.
Emily herself died on 18th May, 1908 and was buried beside her husband in the East Taiere Cemetery.
The family of George and Amelia Ford: Jane (m. Neil Ross), Isabella (m.
William McHattie), Anne (m. Thomas Johnson), twins - Peter (m.
Elizabeth McDonald) and Donald (m. Lillias Robertson), Amelia (m. Peter
Robertson) and George (m. Julia Wright) all settled on farms on the
Taiere Plains. Peter and Donald managed "Piltower" for some years
after their father's death. The farm remained in the family until
1943.
2:1:5Lucy Ford married David Ellis, 14 May 1875, Ballingry, Fife.
In 1881 census Lucy, David and daughter Isabella C. Ellis (4) were
listed at 32 Glen Street, Paisley Middlechurch, Renfrew. By 1891
Lucy, 62y., was a widow living with her 14 year old daughter, Isabella
Ellis (linen weaver) at Cash Feus, Strathmiglo
2:1:6Margaret Ford married David Galloway of Auchtermuchty at
Perth on the 2nd August 1853, By Alexr. Paterson, Free Galic Church.
Children of David Galloway, a handloom weaver, and Margaret Ford as recorded in family Bible (supplied by David Adamson):
2:1:6:1 William Galloway (1854, Auchtermuchty)
2:1:6:2 Isabella Galloway (1855, Auchtermuchty) (My great grandmother)
2:1:6:3 Peter Galloway (1857, Auchtermuchty)
2:1:6:4 Elizabeth Galloway (1859, Auchtermuchty)
2:1:6:5 Lucy Galloway (1860, Auchtermuchty)
2:1:6:6 Jane Galloway (1864, Dysart)
2:1:6:7 Wilhelmina Galloway (1866, Dysart)
2:1:6:8 Agnes Galloway (1868, Dysart)
2:1:6:9 David Galloway (1873, Dysart).
2:1:7Campbell Ford married Helen Goodwillie, 30 January 1866 at
Strathmiglo. In 1881 Campbell , a factory worker, and his
family were living at Skene Street, Strathmiglo. He died 16
August 1915.
Campbell's grandson William Ford emigrated to Canada in 1920s.
(William’s son Raymond Gray Ford (Canada) has supplied details
for the Ford Family Tree.)
Generation #2:2
Lindsay Ford, a weaver, married Helen Ritchie and they raised their
family in Auchtermuchty. Lindsay had died prior to 1851 census
and their children included:
2:2:1 James Ford (b. c. 1820, Auchtermuchty)
2:2:2 Robert Ford (b. c. 1822, Auchtermuchty)
2:2:3 Anne Ford (b. 3 February 1823, Auchtermuchty)
2:2:4 Margaret Ford (b. c. 1827, Auchtermuchty)
2:2:5 Elisabeth Ford (1830, Auchtermuchty)
2:2:1James Ford, a linen weaver, married Janet Crombie and at 1871
census they were living at Middleflat, Auchtermuchty along with their
22 year old daughter (some census record niece) Anna, also a linen weaver. Later
that year James took his own life by jumping over Brombrae Quarry.
2:2:2Robert Ford, warper of linen yarn, married JanetBruce in
Auchtermuchty where their first 3 children were born. Before 1859
they moved to Auchtergaven, Perth where the next 3 children were
born. About 1875 the family moved to Dundee.
2:2:3 Anne Ford married David Duncan, a china merchant. They raised their family at Burnside, Auchtermuchty
2:2:4Margaret Ford married James Lindsay,
a widower and spirit retailer of Musselburgh, Inveresk. The
family sailed from London as "free settlers" to Queensland, Australia
on the "Indus" on 10 April 1872 and docked at Moreton Bay, Brisbane on
16 July 1872. The family on board included 3 sons from James'
previous marriage (to Janet Archibald) - Robert (17), John (11), and
James Jn (9)., along with William (4) and Ellen
(3) his children with Margaret Ford. Sons James and Robert
operated the Braeside Colliery at Bundamba from 1884. Margaret
Lindsay (Ford) died at Bundamba in 1906.
2:2:5 Elisabeth Ford, a handloom weaver, married John Smith, linen weaver, and they raised their family in Auchtermuchty.
Generation #2:3
Stewart Ford: No records other than the christening records for
twin son Stewart were found so possibly he died before adulthood.
Another consideration could be that Stewart became known as Peter
Ford. Census and death records for Peter give him a date of birth
about 1893 – the year that Stewart and brother Lindsay were born.
Generation #2:4
John Ford, weaver, married Agnes Pride in 1824 and they raised their
family in Auchtermuchty. John died at Bowroad, Auchtermuchty in
1859. Their daughter:
2:4:1 Isabella Ford (b. 20 May 1827, Auchtermuchty)
2:4:1 Isabella Ford married David Ford, a sawmiller or wood
merchant. David was the illegitimate son of David Ford, handloom
weaver and Mary Reekie and was possibly Isabella’s
cousin. They raised their family at Bowroad, Auchtermuchty
Generation #2:5
William Ford married Elisabeth Millie at Auchtermuchty on 13 Sept
1823. He appears to have been Parish officer/Sexton for many
years although on his death certificate at aged 81 he was termed a
gardener. He died at his home Middleflatt, Auchtermuchty.
William and Elisabeth’s family included:
2:5:1 James Ford (b.c. 1830, Auchtermuchty)
2:5:2 Jean Ford (b.c. 1831, Auchtermuchty)
2:5:3 Isabella Ford (b.c. 1834, Auchtermuchty)
2:5:4 Ann Ford (b.c. 1837, Auchtermuchty)
2:5:5 Barbara Walker Ford (b.c. 1840, Auchtermuchty)
2:5:1James Ford was a grocer in Auchtermuchty and married Christian Low
in Perth on 13 January 1857. The family was living at Foot of
Backwynd, Auchtermuchty in 1871.
2:5:2Jean (Jane)Ford, linen weaver, still unmarried in 1881 (and 1901) was living with her widowed father at Middleflat.
2:5:3Isabella Ford, weaver, married Andrew Reid, a tailor from Falkland
on 8 Feb 1856. Most of their 9 children were born in Auchtermuchty so
presumably this is where they settled.
2:5:4Ann Ford married Alexander Pratt on 7 January 1861 and their 10
children were born in Auchtermuchty. Alexander’s occupation
in 1891 was gardener.
2:5:5Barbara Walker Ford married David Horn 9 December 1862. They
had a family of 9 children in Auchtermuchty where 1891 census David
Horn was listed as Sexton.
Generation #2:6
James Ford, linen weaver, married Elisabeth Mitchell in
Auchtermuchty on 11 December 1825. The family lived for a
number of years at Cupar Road, Auchtermuchty but by 1881 the
widowed James was with his son James (also a widower) and
grand-daughter Ann Ford at Bowroad. James’ and
Elisabeth’s family included:
2:6:1 James Ford (b.c. 1827, Auchtermuchty)
2:6:2 Isabella Ford (b.c. 1836, Auchtermuchty)
2:6:3 Janet Ford (b.c. 1838, Auchtermuchty)
2:6:1 James Ford, linen weaver, married Isabella Livingston in
Auchtermuchty on 13 November 1852. Isabella appears to have died
during the birth of their 6th child in 1866. The baby, a son,
also died.
2:6:2 Isabella Ford, weaver, married Andrew Scott,
shopman, of Dundee in
Auchtermuchty on 30 May 1867. A daughter Elizabeth Scott
was born in 1871 in Dundee but the baby appears to have died in
infancy. By 1871 her nephew John (Livingston) Ford was with the
couple as apprentice grocer aged 13 years. At 1891 census
Isabella Scott was with her brother James Ford at Jessie Street,
Blairgowie, Perthshire - her nephew John now a grocer/wine merchant at
Blairgowie. Isabella died at Blairgowie in 1928.
2:6:3Janet Ford married John Anderson on 23 September 1870 at
Perth. They raised their family in Auchtermuchty where John was a
surfaceman for the railway.
Generation #2:7
Douglas Ford, weaver, married Helen McNaughton in
Auchtermuchty on 26 August 1825. They appear to have had at
least 4 children:
2:7:1 Margaret Ford (b.c. 1827, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:2 James Ford (b.c. 1829, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:3 Isabel Ford (15 December 1832, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:4 Ann Leishman Ford (c. 1833, Auchtermuchty)
Douglas Ford also seems to have had a relationship with Janet Scott,
weaver, living in Cupar Road, Auchtermuchty and she bore him 3 children:
2:7:5 Jean Ford (b.c. 1835, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:6 George Scott Ford (b.c.1839, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:7 Janet Ford (b.c. 1841, Auchtermuchty)
2:7:1Margaret Ford never married but appears to have raised 6
illegitimate children. She was employed as a winder in earlier
years but by 1881 was an agricultural labourer. She died at
Bongate, Auchtermuchty in 1897 aged 70 years.
Mention should be made of 2 great grandsons of Margaret Ford -
Douglas Ford and James Allan Ford CBE, MC , both sons of Douglas Ford
and Maggie Allan. The brothers were officers in the Royal Scots
and served in Hong Kong in WWII. Hong Kong was captured by the
Japanese in December 1941 and both were prisoners of war and
endured extreme deprivation at the hands of the Japanese. Captain
Douglas Ford "organised the smuggling
into the prison camp at Sham Shui Po of medicines for sick men who were
dying under the evil smiles of their guards ". He was
betrayed when helping in plans for a mass escape and was tortured and
executed 18 December 1943. He was posthumously awarded the George
Cross.
Captain James Allan Ford was released in 1945 and was awarded the
Military Cross for "his untiring energy, courage and good leadership"
and remaining in action after twice being wounded. He returned to
his career in the civil service in Edinburgh and received the CBE in 1978 before
retiring in 1980. He wrote 5 novels - the first 2 "The Brave
White Flag" and "Season Of Escape" set against the background of his war
experiences in Hong Kong. James Allan Ford died 30 March 2009.
2:7:2James Ford married Margaret Philp in Falkland 18 March 1854.
He was a tailor in Freuchie and the couple had 7 children, several of
whom died as infants or as adolescents.
2:7:3Isabel Ford. Birth record only noted.
2:7:4Ann Leishman Ford married William Millar, railway surfaceman and
the couple had a family of about 13 children at Falkland and later
Markinch. Ann Millar died at Freuchie on 21 October, 1902.
2:7:5Jean (Jane) Ford married James Syme, weaver, in Auchtermuchty on 19
November 1861 but died 2 January 1867 of typhoid fever about a week
delivering her 4th baby. The daughter, Elisabeth Jane Syme
also died at aged 5 months of influenza.
2:7:6George Scott Ford, tailor, married Christian Anderson in
Auchtermuchty on 22 July 1864. Their first 3 children were born
in Auchtermuchty but later 2 were born in Markinch and Leith.
2:7:7 Janet Ford. Last record noted of Janet was 1851 census aged 9 years.
Generation #2:8
Ann Ford married John Leishman, Flesher (butcher), in Auchtermuchty on 16 July
1830. They settled in Falkland where they had 2 daughters:
2:8:1Isabella Leishman
delivered an illegitimate son, John Leishman, in1855 at Falkland.
John was Informant on his
grandmother’s death certificate in Freuchie in 1883.
Isabella did not marry and at her death in was recorded as
Temperance hotelkeeper at High Street, Falkland. Her son
John appears to have been reared by his grandparents and he died in
1889 aged 33 years.
2:8:2Ann Leishman was living with her parents in Falkland aged 17 at 1851 census.
Generation #2:9
David Ford’s first partner/wife was Christian Fowlds (Fowlis) and they had one daughter:
2:9:1Margaret Ford was born 16 October 1838 and at 1851 census she was
living with father David and his new wife Helen Paton at Bowroad,
Auchtermuchty. Margaret, weaver, married James Adams, sawyer in
1860 at Auchtermuchty. They had 2 children but Margaret and
daughter Margaret Ford Adams both died in 1862 probably at the
baby’s birth.
David Ford married Helen Paton on 20 July 1850. David later
became a manufacturer of linen and the family moved to Upper Greens,
Auchtermuchty where they raised their 6 children:
2:9:2 Robert Thomson Ford (21 August 1853, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:3 David Bell Ford (16 October 1854, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:4 Ann Gray Ford (18 June 1856, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:5 Helen Isabella Ford (16 May 1859, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:6 Michael Paton Ford (2 August 1861, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:7 Mary Nisbet Ford (14 December 1863, Auchtermuchty)
2:9:2Robert Thomson Ford married Mary Ann Gillespie on 25 December 1878
in Auchtermuchty. In 1881 census Mary Ann (wife of
emigrant) and 2 year old son, David P. Ford were living with her father
William Gillespie at Jarvisland, Auchtermuchty. From
details of an illegitimate son, John Wishart Ford/Gillespie, born to
Mary Ann in 1882 “she declares that (Robert) is not the father of
the child and further that she has not seen him since he deserted her
and went to Australia in March 1879.” Son,
David Paterson Ford married (Jessie Edwards) and died in
Auchtermuchty in 1934. John Wishart Ford died in infancy.
Robert Thomson Ford also left an illegitimate son James Hain (Ford),
born 17 January 1878 to Jessie Hain. James Ford died in 1880 aged
2 years of Meningitis.
2:9:3 David Bell Ford aged 6
years was found in 1861 census with the
family and later in 1891 (36 years) when the family lived at Abernethy
where
brother Michael was a farmer. David’s occupation was given
as locomotive engineer. At 1901 census David was farmer at
"Pitmedden", Abernethy - he never married and died at "Pitmedden" in
1922. His nephew David Paterson Ford, ploughman, and wife Jessie
were at Cottar House, "Pitmedden" in 1901 presumably employed by
David B. Ford.
2:9:4Ann Gray Ford aged 14 years was a linen weaver living at home in
1871. By 1880 she was a dressmaker in Tradeston, Glasgow. She
married Glaswegian, David Henderson, mason, and they appear to have
lived in Glasgow. Her death was registered in Partick, Glasgow in
1936.
2:9:5 Helen Isabella Ford married John McBeath in Auchtermuchty in
1883. They raised their family of 7 children in Kinning Park,
Glasgow. Helen died in 1936.
2:9:6Michael Paton Ford died in Auchtermuchty in 1937. In 1891 he
was a Farmer at Easter Colzie, Abernethy. His mother was
described as Head of the household; brother David, sister Ann Henderson
and her 3 children and nephew John McBeath were also at Easter Colzie.
2:9:7Mary Nisbet Ford married Glaswegian, William Forrest in 1883 in
Auchtermuchty. William’s occupation was given as Iron Ship
Plater.
Generation #2:10
Helen Ford was probably a daughter of James Ford and Isabella
Butters. She had a relationship with David Smith, weaver and an
illegitimate son Thomas Ford was born c. 1833.
2:10:1Thomas Ford was found in 1851 census as an 18 year old, handloom
weaver, living at Cupar Road, Auchtermuchty. The head of the
household was Helen Ford (Helen Ritchie, widow of Lindsay Ford) and
Thomas was described as a relative. Thomas Ford married Grace
Robertson of Strathmiglo in December 1854 and they raised their family
of 9 children at Bow Road, Auchtermuchty.
2:10:1:1 Elizabeth Ford (b.c. 1854, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:2 Helen Ford (20 May 1856, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:3 Grace Ford (27 November 1858, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:4 Margaret (Isabella) Greig Ford (6 June 1861, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:5 Margaret Ford (16 January 1865, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:6 Thomas Ford (3 November 1867, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:7 Ann Ford (24 July 1871, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:8 John Ford (15 March 1874, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:1:9 Lindsay Ford (1876, Auchtermuchty)
Helen Ford, Thomas’ mother, later (22 October 1841) married John
Burgess, handloom weaver. The couple had 3 daughters born at
Auchtermuchty, although their births were also found in parish
registers of Dunbog. Helen Ford died probably between 1848 (perhaps at child birth) and
1851 when John Burgess married Ann Briggs.
2:10:2 Helen Burgess (12 May 1842, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:3 Margaret Burgess (8 April 1844, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:4 Ann Burgess (10 September 1848, Auchtermuchty)
2:10:2Helen Burgess aged 8 years was with father and stepmother Ann at South Street, Abdie in 1851.
2:10:3Margaret Burgess aged 6 years was as above. She married Charles
Bayne, linen factory worker and they raised a family of 8 children in
Dysart.
2:10:4Ann Burgess
was not with the family at Abdie in 1851. She appears to have
been raised in Auchtermuchty as the "daughter" of James Ford and his
wife Janet Crombie, although in 1861 census she was referred to as
"niece". In 1876 Annie F Burgess of Middle Flat,
Auchtermuchty married Andrew Paterson who was a gardener at
Polton House Gardens, Lasswade near Edinburgh. The couple were
still at Polton House in 1901 - Janet Ford (nee Crombie) lived with
them and at her death Andrew Paterson as Informant was described as
"nephew-in-law".