John married Magdalene WATT daughter of David WATT and Ann MITCHELL on 30 Mar 1840 in Benholm, Kincardine, Scotland. Magdalene was born on 18 Feb 1816 in Benholm, Kincardine, Scotland. She was christened on 03 Mar 1816 in Benholm. ...
"Many of the Scotch ladies are good housewives, and many gentlemen of good estate are not ashamed to wear the clothes of their wives and servants' spinning." Among some notes of the manners and customs of the people of Scotland, ..... At Benholm and Auchinblae, in the same county, the linen manufacture still survives, but on a much smaller scale than formerly. 632896 yards of linen were stamped in the county in 1822. The early history of the linen trade in the counties of ...
