After arriving fom Ireland to Scotland in c. 1850 my Father's family worked in coalmining and travelled all over the Lowlands of Scotland from Ayrshire to Fifeshire and back. My grandparents arrived near Bishopbriggs from Cumbernauld in 1921. They stayed in Bishopbriggs up to our generation. My Mother was born in Kincardineshire and raised in Quarrier's homes at Brig o' Weir. Her ancestry was entrenched in Kincardineshire and Deeside in Aberdeenshire, and she was descended from "ag. labs" farm labourers, and stone dykers. She boarded in Bishopbriggs and met my father there. They started their married life in Springburn but later moved back to Bishopbriggs. We have covered the Irish quite well. Do any of you have family that came from elsewhere and how did they arrive in Glasgow? Some maybe from across the country but other may have come from another country, places like Lithuania, Germany and Italy, more recently from former colonies. Tell us their story

Hi rdem, I started tracing my husband's and my own ancestry two years ago. I found it very interesting and at one point got really engrossed in it all. I got back as far as the 1700's. My paternal grandfather's family are from Oban, they moved to Ayr, then Largs and Paisley. I discovered that his father died young and his mother couldn't support the family on her own. There wasn't any help in the 1890's and so he and his two sisters were put into Quarriers Homes...it must've been heartbreaking for their mother!

My paternal grandmother's father (my Gt Grandfather) was born in India, the son of a serving British Army officer, his mother (my Gt. Gt. Grandmother) was also born in India but I've drawn a blank there because I can't get into the British Army records in India.

My maternal grandfather's family are Scottish as far back as 18th century. He was a manager at Babcock & Willcox, Renfrew up until he died in the late 1930's. I believe my maternal grandmother has French ancestry but I'm still working on that.

My husband's paternal grandfather's family came over to Clydebank from Wicklow, Ireland in the late 1800's and worked as labourers. His paternal grandmother's family came from Dublin in the late 1800's too.

His maternal grandfather's family were from northern England and came to Dundee to work in the jute mills, then they all moved to Glasgow and went to work in the railway in Springburn. His grandfather was an engine driver and got a certificate for taking Queen Mary to Crewe onboard the 'Royal Scot'. His maternal grandmother had English roots in Darlington and his maternal G. grandmother had Irish roots.

All of our grandparents settled in Possilpark and Maryhill....some moved to Ruchill in 1929.

I tease my husband that he's Anglo/Irish and the only claim he has to Scotland is that he was born there...he's not impressed and very proud to be a Scot!

my great great- grandparents came from County Louth in Ireland ,they settled in to Lennoxtown ,where my grandparents met my grand fathers name was Halfpenny and my grannies name was Ferns ,I have a cousin who was doing researcha nd we got in conntact with each other and we now have a email relationshhhip and its nice ,my grandparents had fifteen children of which thirteen survived,and they lived in a wee single end as a matter of fact my granparents were married in the same church as our ain Catherine and Geoff were married is that no sumthin!!!!!!

Small World: Georgia we have theQuarier's connection. I vistedtheein 1992, ti was fascinating to see where the kids lived. I got a copy of journal entires for my mothe and he twin sister.
Mags, my Dempseys were in Dundalk, Louth before coming to Scotland but haven't been able to get back further.
By the way here are some family names Paternal: Dempsey, Bon(n)ar, Brown, O'Donnell (2), Morgan, McDonald, McNeillis, Dougan, Gallocher, Donnelly, Moor, Maternal: Hampton, Stewart (2), Brand(2) Wilson (2), Watson, Barclay, Kinloch, Nicol, Frazer, Fettes, Cloudesley, Lyall,

My aunt was helen crawfurd jack she was a sufragette and the have loads about her on the net i have only just got a computor and was so happy to see that she was not forgotten she was a very colourful woman and she met lenan and all sorts of things when you put her name in helen crawfurd to search there are at leat 6 sites that come up i think also they have a manuscript at the glasgow library that has never been published as yet and they are going to soon. i also found out that my grandpa jack met robert burns and left some of his manuscripts with him and my uncle donated them the the robert burns museum. crawfurd x