Old Photograph Laighmuir Dunlop Scotland

Old photograph of houses in Laighmuir, Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Hugh Wylie born 16 November 1806 in Neilston, and died 14 October 1888 in Dunlop Village. He was the son of Alexander Wylie and Janet Clark. Margaret Brown born 15 August 1816 in Dunlop, Ayrshire, and died 5 May 1895 in Dunlop Village. She was the daughter of William Brown and Annie Bryce. Children of Margaret Brown and Hugh Wylie were; Jane Wylie born 1853 in Dunlop, Ayrshire, and died 11 July 1887 in Barrhead. She married James Cunningham 8 June 1877 in Dunlop, son of David Cunningham and Janet Smith. He was born 4 September 1855 in Stewarton, Ayrshire, and died 18 January 1916 in Barrhead. Hugh Wylie was born 27 February 1860 in Laighmuir, Dunlop. Mary Wylie was born in 1855. Alexander Wylie was born 5 March 1857 in Laighmuir, Dunlop, and died 25 July 1857 in Dunlop. Elizabeth Wylie was born in 1862. In 1791 Dunlop is recorded as having six masons, twelve weavers, three smiths, three shoemakers, four tailors and three inn keepers; by 1874 the village had 10 shoemakers, 8 masons, 6 weavers, 6 smiths, 5 wrights and 1 tailor, but no baker or flesher and the people's health was such that no surgeon was need or writer or lawyer.



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