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Characters in Bold are children of Ann Scott, those in italics are grandchildren and those in italics underlinedare great grand children

Ann Scott (1774-1847) was born to Peter Scott (1737-1808) and Mary Brock (1748-1831) at Greenland  link. At the age of 23 she married George MacLellan (1768-1834) in 1797. Banns were called in Old Kilpatrick as well as Luss, which is where George lived. George was a farmer at Meikle Balenraig Farm, Luss which is where their children were born. By the time of his death he appears to have moved to Bolernick farm but possibly this is simply an evolution of the name. George is buried at Rhu churchyard.

Ann and George had ten children (in Bold):

Mary MacLellan (1798-1817), died prematurely at age 19 and is buried at Rhu churchyard.

Donald MacLellan (1800-1861) , he began his career as a Grassier at Tulloch’s Farm in Glen Douglas employing four men. Between 1851 and 1861 he became the farmer there employing a Ploughman and a Shepherd. At the time of the 1851 census his brother in law, Archibald MacFarlan was living with him; he had married Janet MacLellan. Donald died in 1861 unmarried and is buried at Rhu churchyard.

Janet MacLellan (1802- possibly by 1840) married Archibald MacFarlan (1779-1858) at Luss in 1836, a  farmer, hailing from  Stirlngshire but from a report in the Glasgow Gazette of 13 January 1849 it appears that Archibald farmed at Culag on Loch Lomond side, now a self catering holiday destination. The farm grazed 700 to 800 sheep. They had a daughter, Janet Ann MacFarlan (1839-1921). There is no sign of the family at the time of the 1841 census and by the time of the 1851 census Archibald was a widower lodging with his brother in law, Donald MacLellan (see above). I am guessing that Janet may have died in childbirth or soon after and that possibly the daughter Janet Ann died in infancy.

Christina MacLellan (1804-between 1851 and 1855) married Henry Blair (1801- died between 1845 and 1851) in 1836, a Book Keeper in Lanark who rose to become a Manufacturer. Henry died some time between the birth of Christina junior in 1845 and before the 1851 census when Christina was a widow.

Together they had five children (in italics):
Ann MacLellan Blair born1837
James Blair born 1839
George Blair born 1841
Grace Calder Blair born 1843
Christina MacLellan Blair born 1845; Christina must have died in infancy as she is not on the 1851 census.

Peter MacLellan (1806-1866) left Luss and began his working life as an Ironmonger advancing to Ironmonger, Iron Merchant, Smith and Engineer. In 1839 he married Elizabeth Shaw (1817-1877) from Greenock, daughter of a Merchant and Shipping Agent.

Together they had twelve children (in italics):
George MacLellan born in 1840, died in infancy
Elizabeth Taylor MacLellan born in 1843
William Shaw MacLellan born in 1843, died aged 2, twin of Elizabeth
George MacLellan born in 1845
James Shaw MacLellan born in 1846
Ann Scott MacLellan born in 1848
Janet MacLellan born in 1849
Mary MacLellan born in 1851, died in infancy
Helen MacLellan born in 1852
Christina MacLellan born in 1854
Peter MacLellan born in 1858
William MacLellan born in 1855

Peter senior died in 1866 while they were living at 17 Royal Crescent, Glasgow. Elizabeth died at 3 Montague Terrace, Kelvinside, Partick in 1877.

Peter MacLellan (1806-1866) and his brother Walter (1815-1883) (see below) formed the world famous business of P. & W. MacLellan

P. & W. MacLellan was a general ironmongery business at 129 Trongate, Glasgow. It was run from the late 1830s by brothers Peter and Walter MacLellan, originally from rural Garelochside, Dunbartonshire. The business expanded profitably in the mid 19th century, and Walter and his Jamaican-born wife moved to a large house in Helensburgh. A third brother, Duncan, and Peter’s son George, had also joined the firm before Peter’s death around 1867.

From the 1870s to the 1900s, P. & W. MacLellan traded as engineers and iron and steel merchants, as well as being ‘waggon-builders, bridge and boiler makers [and] … bolt … rivet and chain manufacturers’ and operated from the Clutha Ironworks and a warehouse in Glasgow, with branches in London and Liverpool. In 1881, Walter employed 1000 men, and by 1891 one of his sons was living in Park Circus, one of the most exclusive addresses in Glasgow.

In 1890, MacLellan’s directors, most of whom were family members, issued shares to raise £450,000 capital.  By this date, the Clutha Ironworks covered 14 acres adjacent to Cessnock Docks on the south side of the River Clyde, and included railways, gantries and hydraulic and electric power. The firm employed over 2000 workers, and had an annual turnover, including government contracts, of £1,000,000. W. T. MacLellan was chairman from 1902 to 1935, and the firm continued until 1979.

Among the firm’s wares during the 1890s were fireproof safes, galvanised ‘Clutha’ windmill pumping towers, lawnmowers, and garden and agricultural tools. In 1896–7, it supplied structural steelwork to tenements in Cromwell Street, Glasgow and in 1898 fireproof roofs to the North British Hotel in Edinburgh. (Source: https://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/name/?nid=MacLPW)

The company ceased trading in 1979, became Haden MacLellan Holdings and in 2000 became the Infast Group.

John MacLellan (1808-1877) (sixth child of Ann and George) is an enigma. I cannot find any record of him until the 1871 census when he was  living at Tulloch farm, Glen Douglas, which had been farmed by his brother, Donald MacLennan (1800-1861). On the 1871  census John is living with his wife, Mary Arnot (1821-1899) who was born in Forfarshire. Living with them is their grandson, John MacLellan, aged 2 and born in Lanarkshire.

Ann MacLellan (1810-1893) was born on 26 May 1810 to Ann and George at her father’s farm, Meikle Balenraig. She never married and at the age of 25 she was living at home at the, now named, farm of Bolernick with her widowed mother, also Ann. At the time of the 1851 census she was living with her brother George MacLellan (1812-1882) (see below) keeping house for him, his niece, Janet MacFarlan (1839-1921 ), five Farm Servants and a visitor Duncan McMillan (1819-), brother of one of the servants, I think.

At the time of the 1861 census she was visiting her brother, Walter MacLellan (1815-1883) at St Vincent  Street, Barony, Blythswood, Glasgow. By 1871 George, her brother, had married and had a family of six, Ann however still lived with George, not as a housekeeper any more but living as an annuitant. Sometime before the 1881 census Ann acquired her property, East Woodend, Row (or Rhu), and lived here at the time with Janet McFarlan (1839-1921), her niece. She had moved to 35 East Argyle Street, Helensburgh by the time of the 1891 census still living with her niece Janet, a servant and a nurse; she had been suffering from senile paralysis for some years, (possibly what we know today as Alzheimer’s). Her niece, Annie MacLellan  was with her when she died. Ann is buried in Rhu (Row) churchyard.

George MacLellan (1812-1882), Ann and George’s seventh child, farmed at Bolernick Farm taking over the tenancy which his father would have had at the time of his death. This farm had 80 acres of arable land and 100 acres of moorland. At the time of the 1841 census Ann, George’s widowed mother, was living with him together with Ann, his sister. Also living there were Coll MacLellan (1831-) his nephew, Janet McFarlane (1839-1921) his niece  and James Blair (1839-) his nephew by Christina MacLellan (see above) together with four Farm Servants. His sister, Ann, had assumed the role of managing the large household by the time of the 1851 census. Their mother, Ann Scott, had died in 1847 and in the house were his niece, Janet McFarlan (1839-1921) together with six Farm Servants and a visitor.

In January, 1861 at the age of 48, he married Martha Snodgrass (1834-1913), a daughter of James Snodgrass who farmed at Portnauld, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire. Martha was one of thirteen children and twenty years junior to George. The 1861 census shows that again there were visitors, a J.A. McFarlan (1839-1921), This would be Janet Ann, and George Blair (1841-) who had become a Commercial Clerk. There were now five Farm Servants. George had added land to the farm; at the time of the 1871 census he managed 150 acres of arable land and 230 of moorland with four Farm Servants an increase from 80 arable and 100 moorland.

George and Martha had eight children (in italics):
Janet MacLellan (1861-1920)
Ann MacLellan (1863-1931)
Mary MacLellan (1865-1887)
George MacLellan (1867-1952)
Martha MacLellan (1869-1875)
Christina MacLellan (1870-1936)
James MacLellan (1873-)
Margaret MacLellan (1876-1938)

On the 30th December, 1882 George died at home, Bolernick Farm, and is buried at Rhu. At some time Martha moved to Crosshill, Glasgow. However, for the last period of her life she was living with her son, George MacLellan (1867-1952) at his farm, Redheugh, Gorebridge outside Edinburgh, which is where she died in her 81st year in 1913. She is buried at Rhu (Row) churchyard. Also commemorated on the same headstone as George and Martha are daughters Martha, Mary and Janet who died at, Kellerberrin, Western Australia 11th July 1920.

Walter MacLellan (1815-1889) was the ninth child of Ann Scott (1774-1847) and George MacLellan (1768-1834). It was he who was in partnership with his brother Peter in the business P&W MacLellan (see above). At the time of the 1841 census Walter was living at Robertson Street, Lanark with his sister Christina (1804-1854) and brother in law Henry Blair (born 1801, died before 1851). Also lodging with Christina and Henry was Walter’s brother, Duncan; Duncan was an Ironmonger and Walter an Iron Merchant in the family business and also Andrew Macfarlane. By the 1851 census, Walter was still with his sister and her children. Christina was a widow by  this time, George had died sometime before the 1851 census.

In 1852 Walter married Margaret Walker (1830-1858) and together they had the following children (in italics):
George Scott MacLellan (1854-1942),
Margaret MacLellan (born in 1855 and married R. Hamilton Lang of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, Bucharest, Roumania), the bridegroom’s brother conducted the service.
Ann Scott MacLellan (1856-1926). 
Walter Thomas MacLellan (1858-1931).

Sadly Margaret Walker died on 14 March, 1858; ten days after the birth of Walter Thomas MacLellan. On Walter’s birth record she is shown as deceased despite dying ten days after Walter; they were both registered on 15 March. She died of Scarlet Fever.

   In 1861 Walter married secondly Thomasina Turner (1830-1900), fifteen years his junior,  whose birth was registered in Luss as well as in Jamaica; she was born in Jamaica; her late father, William Turner, owned a  sugar plantation named Wallingford in Lacovia, Jamaica.

Together Thomasina and Walter had two further children (in italics):

William Turner MacLellan 1863 : he was Chairman of P&W MacLellan from 1902 to 1935 and
Mary MacLellan born in 1864 and married James Hamilton in 1891.
Walter and Margaret’s son, George Scott MacLellan (1854-1943), ultimately became involved in the family Iron business.

Walter and Thomasina began married life in 1861 at St Vincent Street, Barony, Blythswood with their  children George, Maggie, Ann and Walter. Walter’s sister, Ann (1810-1893), unmarried at the time, was also with them along with 3 servants. By the 1871 census they had moved to a home called Blairvadick in Row (Rhu), a 44 acre estate with a Victorian home built on the site of Blairvadick Castle which dated back to 1558. At this time the household had grown to include George, now an Iron Merchant, Margaret, Walter, William and Mary, together with five servants and a visiting art student. Their daughter, Ann, was  boarding at 14 Newton Place, Barony, Glasgow; this appears to be a school.

By 1881 Walter was employing 1000 men in the Iron business and their son, George, was now described as an Engineer employing 100 men. No other children were at home but there were seven servants. Daughter Margaret had married R. Hamilton Lang of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, Bucharest. Walter, unmarried, was at an Hydropathic Establishment in Moffat, Dumfrieshire. William was now an art student at Glasgow University staying at 14 Ann Street, Govan. His sister, Ann, was with him along with Alice E Gill, a visitor from England, and a servant.

Walter died in 1889 at Blairvadick aged 73. After Walter’s death Thomasina moved to live at Montgomerie Drive, Govan. At the time of the 1891 census she was living at this address with their son Walter, unmarried and now a shipowner together with Mary who was also unmarried and a niece, Annie MacLellan, the daughter of George MacLellan and Martha Snodgrass.

Mary MacLellan was called upon to launch the Thomasina Turner which, according to the report in the Glasgow Herald of November 1873, was  a magnificent iron sailing ship,…the largest sailing ship ever built on the Clyde. Again, in April 1878 she launched the Vine for the Glasgow and Londonderry Steam-Packet Company, to be employed in their Irish trade….., daughter of the chairman of the company.

While staying at the Grand Hotel, Glasgow in March 1900 Thomasina died of Bronchitis.

Duncan MacLellan (1818-1880) was the last of George MacLellan (1768-1834) and Ann Scott’s (1774-1847) children. He was born at  Balernaig [Bolernick ] 4th February 1818 and Baptized the 14 March ditto year[1818]. N.B. by the neglect of the father not reporting the birth of the child in due time, he being of the Relief . I suspect this refers to the ‘Relief Congregation’; which was a Scottish Presbyterian denomination founded in 1761. In 1847 it united with the United Secession Church to form the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

At the time of his marriage Duncan was living in Glasgow at 10 Abbotsford Place; he married Christina Latta (1836-1920) in 1858. She was eighteen years his junior and a daughter of John Latta, Tanner, and Jean Lang.

Duncan and Christina had eight children (in italics):
George Lang MacLellan born in 1859
Janet MacLellan born in1860
John Latta MacLellan born in 1862
Ann Scott MacLellan born in1864
Christina MacLellan born in1867
Duncan MacLellan born in 1869
Walter Robert MacLellan born in 1871
James Semple MacLellan born in1874
 

Duncan joined his brothers in the family business, P&W MacLellan.

The first four children were born at Glasgow while the  remaining four were born at Helensburgh. The family lived in Annock Bank, Montrose Street East, Helensburgh and it was here in 1880 that Duncan died having suffered with Bronchitis for a number of years.

Christina lived on in the house after Duncan’s death, at first with George, Janet, John, Duncan and Walter and two servants; with the household reducing over time until in 1911 she had Annie with her along with two servants but by this time she may have been in ill health as a nurse was also living with her. Christina died in 1920.

This concludes the analysis of the MacLellan connection to Scott. Further data and images can be requested using the Contact Form.

 

 

 

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