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James Scott was born in the town Bellshill in the parish of Bothwell, Lanarkshire on 21 August 1838. (ref 2nd marriage registration).
Birth SP: SCOTT JAMES, JAMES TAYLOR/JANET SCOTT, 21 AUGUST 1838, 1842, BELLSHILL RELIEF
"1842 Baptisms in the Relief Church Bellshill
James Natural Son to James Taylor & Janet Scott was born at Unthank unpon the 21 August 1838 and Baptised by the Revd. John Wilson."
As discussed below it is reasonably possible that James Taylor did not father James Scott by Janet Scott, if indeed James Taylor ever existed.
In 1841 James was living with his grandparents (John Scott and Sarah Lochhead) also in Bothwell, under the name of James Taylor, aged 2. In the 1851 census he is still living with John and Sarah Scott, as James Taylor, a grandson, aged 12, born Bothwell, Lanarkshire. From at least 1858 and onwards he goes by the name James Scott.
On 18 January 1858 when James Scott, a bachelor, aged 20, married his first wife Ann McMillan, a spinster, aged 22, he was a clerk at the iron works (presumably Coltness Iron works) in Cambusnethan. He declared that his parents were: John Scott (a mason) and Sarah Lochhead (deceased). No record of these parents of James has been identified. No family with a John as father or Sarah as a mother of a James Scott could be found in the 1841 census results in Bothwell. It would appear that John Scott and Sarah Lochhead were actually James' grandparents. Ann McMillan, was aged 20, a spinster of Newmains. Her father was Thomas McMillan, smith, mother - Margaret McMillan m.s. Dickson.
He had eight children from Ann, his first wife: John (b1858), Margaret (b1860), Janet (b1862), Thomas (b1864), Ann (b1866), James (b1868), William (b1871) and Sarah (b1872).
In the 1861 census James Scott was described as "book keeper big Iron", and in 1871 he was a commercial clerk. (At the Coltness Iron Foundry)
Ann Scott (nee McMillan) died on 27 December 1872.
In 1871 there was intense debate over whether it was permissible for a man to marry his deceased wife’s sister. In that year a group of 24 leading Scottish ministers (who were opposed to change) addressed a pamphlet to English Nonconformists (who generally favored change in the law). The Scottish ministers believed that change would jeopardize existing relationships in which the sister of the wife had lived as if she were the sister of the husband as well. As a punch-line, they quoted an English judge, who later became Lord Chancellor, saying that change would lead "to hopeless sinking into the abyss of cold and cynical indifference to the purity of our national life".
The Deceased Wife’s Sister Act remained under debate in the British parliament from 1835 to 1907, when enabling legislation was passed. That was some seventy-two years. So protracted was the debate that by the end of the nineteenth century it had become a matter of satire, even finding its way into Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Iolanthe, where the Queen of the Fairies sings: "And he shall prick that annual blister, Marriage with deceased wife’s sister". The very thought of such a marriage created a steamy literary genre of its own, with novels like Felicia Skene’s "The Inheritance of Evil" (1849) and Mary Braddon’s "The Fatal Three" (1888). Holman Hunt, the great Pre-Raphaelite artist, whose painting, The Light of the World, is considered the most powerful religious image of the nineteenth century, alienated the Church of England by marrying his deceased wife’s youngest sister in November 1875 at Neuchatel.
James Scott married his first wife, Ann's sister, Marion, on 26 February 1879 in Neuchatel Switzerland. Marion and James were married in Switzerland as, according to the above Scottish law one was not permitted to marry a sister of a wife. Ann and Marion's father Thomas McMillan also worked at the Coltness iron foundry as a blacksmith. When James Scott married his second wife in Neuchatel he declared his parents were James Taylor and Janet Taylor (nee Scott).
Marriage: Extract of the Marriage Register - Neuchatel Switzerland
Date of Marriage in Neuchatel NE Switzerland: 26 February 1879
Name: James Scott
Marital Status: Widower of Ann MacMillan as of 27 December 1872
Place of Origin: Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Place and Date of Birth: Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 21 August 1838
Father: James Taylor
Mother: Janet Taylor (nee Scott)
Residence: Neuchatel NE
Spouse: Marion MacMillan
Marital Status: Spinster
Place of Origin: Newmains, Scotland
Place and Date of Birth: Newmains, Scotland - 28 June 1850
Spouse Father: Thomas MacMillan
Spouse Mother: Margaret MacMillan (nee Dickson)
Residence: Neuchatel NE
The children of James and Marion were: Robert (b1879), Walter (b1882), William (b1884), Elizabeth (b1886) and Alice (b 1888).
In the 1881 census James Scott was still a clerk at the iron works and was living with his second wife Marion McMillan in Plevna Cottage in Cambusnethan.
James Scott of Plevna Cottage was a former captain of the Newmains Volunteer Company. Ref Wishaw Press - 25 Mar 1893. He was also a life long friend of Mr John Thom, for 50 years the cashier of Coltness Iron Company.
There was a suggestion from his family that he also went into partnership with another person in the Brass industry. This was thought to have failed mainly due to the other partner.
By the time of the 1891 census James Scott had progressed to be the Commercial Manager at the Iron Works in Coltness. He was listed as having been a cashier at the Iron Works and shown as deceased on his son Robert's Marriage Registration in 1911. His son Robert (b1879) was also employed at the Coltness Iron Works until about 1910. James Scott eventually became the Managing Director of the Coltness Iron Company. (Ref: Robert Scott's obituary 1960)
On James Scott's(b1838) death certificate in 1901 his son Robert (b1879) described him as illegitimate with his mother as Janet Scott, housekeeper (deceased).
Oral family history (via Morna Scott in 2003) reports that James was the illegitimate son of a Sir William Houldsworth (an upstairs-downstairs affair) by Janet Scott and that James got money from but not the name of his father. Initially it was advised that the William Houldsworth had no other children. In 2007 Morna Scott advised that William Houldsworth the father of James Scott had two illegitimate sons who were called "swales" - probably reared in private schools and possibly by different women.
There is some basis for this view as James appears to have had a long term role at the Coltness iron works which was owned by the Houldsworths. A Thomas Houldsworth extended his business interests in 1836 by partnering his brother Henry in the establishment of the Coltness iron works in Lanarkshire in 1839. Thomas Houldsworth died in 1852. The Company remained in the control of the Houldsworth family, firstly via Henry's children and later his grandchildren until 1906. At least by 1899 James Scott was the Managing Director of Coltness. When James Scott died in 1901 he had 7,350 pounds worth of shares in the Coltness Ironworks. There are at least two DNA matches to Jane Margaret SCOTT that have HOULDSWORTH's as a common ancestor which tend to confirm this verbal family history.
A Janet Scott did have parents of John Scott, a mason and Sarah Lochhead as mother who lived in Bothwell. According to John Scott's death certificate Janet died in 1846 only about 8 years after James' birth. So it can be reliably assumed that John Scott and Sarah Lochhead were James' grandparents, not his actual parents. However no record of a James Scott born in 1838 could be found living with a relevant Scott family in either the 1841 or 1851 Bothwell census. As mentioned above living with John and Sarah Scott in both 1841 and 1851 is a James Taylor - a grandson (born about 1838 in Bothwell). It is assumed that James went by the surname Taylor from at least 1841 to 1851. No record of a James Taylor could be found in Lanark in the 1861 census but a James Scott could be found in the 1861 census living with Ann, his first wife. Note that in James' second marriage certificate from Neuchatel Switzerland he gives his father as James Taylor.
A number of William Houldsworths have been identified in the Houldsworth family. A Sir William Houldsworth was born in 1834 and was clearly too young to be James' father. A possible father was William Henry Houldsworth born in 1798 or William Houldsworth born in 1770. In the 1841 census William Henry Houldsworth lived at Belvidere House, Barony, with his wife Mary and six children and six servants. It is conceivable that Janet Scott had been an earlier servant at that house when she conceived James Scott. This relationship thus can only be supposition and needs further confirmation. The lands of Belvidere extend to twenty-five acres, and are situated about two miles eastward from Glasgow, on the line of "London Road" leading from Bridgeton to Clyde Iron Works. But this William Henry Houldsworth had a number of legitimate children and so is not entirely consistent with the oral family history.
The other William Houldsworth of Farnsfield, Nottingham, who was born in 1770 is another possibility. He was passed the Coltness estate in 1852 on the death of his brother Thomas. This William (b1770) did not have any legitimate children of his own but it is not as clear if he was involved in the Glasgow iron business until well after James was born. So it is not possible to completely align the oral family history with the facts. What is clear is that James was associated with the Houldsworths and that he was wealthy even though his mother died young. His father could have been:
* William Henry Houldsworth b1798 - but he was not a Sir and had legitimate children
* William Houldsworth b1770 - but he was not as clearly involved in Coltness until after James' birth although did not have his own legitimate children
* Sir William Houldsworth b1834 - but was clearly too young
* Thomas Houldsworth b1771 - who was the owner of Coltness in 1837 and did not have any legitimate children (but is not a William?)
* A DNA match between an Andrew Wilde and Jane Margaret Scott has been found with 7cM across 1 segment that would seem to indicate that the Houldsworth as a father of James would more likely be of an older generation than the William Henry Houldsworth b1798. If the above William Houldsworth b1770 or Thomas Houldsworth b1771 was the father of James Scott, Andrew Wilde and Jane Scott would be 6th cousins 3 times removed. Their common ancestors would be Francis Houldsworth and Hannah.
* A DNA match between Sam Waymouth and Jane Margaret Scott has been found with 9cM across 2 segments with common ancestors of Henry Houldsworth and Anne Hooton. If the above William Houldsworth b1770 or Thomas Houldsworth b1771 was the father of James Scott, Sam Waymouth and Jane Scott would be 4th cousins 2 times removed.
It is noted that James Scott's last son was called William Henry Scott. It is possible that he named this child after his father William Houldsworth.
From 1879 until his death in 1901 James lived in Plevna Cottage, Newmains, Cambusnethan.
Edinburgh Evening Post News 5 March 1901 P3
DEATH OF AN IRONWORKS MANAGER - Yesterday the death took place at Newmains of Mr James Scott, for many years commercial manager of the Coltness Iron Company, Limited, and for upwards of half a century a valued and trusted servant of the company.
The Scotsman - 6 March 1901
SCOTT - At Plevna, Newmains, on the 4th inst., JAMES SCOTT, aged 62, for 50 years with the Coltness Iron Company. Funeral to-morrow (Thursday) at 2:30pm.
Will:
Scott James 27/5/1901 Plevna, Newmains, Parish of Cambusnethan, d. 04/03/1901 at Newmains aforesaid, testate, Hamilton Sheriff Court.
Probate Index:
SCOTT, James, Plevna, Newmains, Parish of Cambusnethan, died 4 March 1901, at Newinains aforesaid, testate. Confirmation granted at Hamilton, 27 May, to Dr John Millar, Newmains, Marion McMillan or Scott, his widow, John Logan, Solicitor, Wishaw, and Robert Scott, residing at Plevna aforesaid, his son, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 25 March 1892, and Codicil, dated 24 April 1900, and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Lanark, 25 May 1901. Value of Estate, 14,684 pounds, 9s. 6d.
It is interesting to note that there was a legal case between John Scott (the eldest son of James Scott of Plevna who died 4 March 1901) against the 4 other children of James Scott who were claiming that a discharge of John Scott's right to an inheritance from his father should stand as he was given benefits during his life. "Scott's Trustees V. Scott". There is no mention of the second family of James Scott.
Some relevant records of the Coltness and Houldsworth connections are:
In 1893
ROADS COMMITTEE of County Council (Wishaw District).
James Houldsworth (Convener), W. J. Houldsworth, David
Frew, James Scott.
As per the list of Directors of Coltness below, James Scott was a director from 1884 to 1901.
In the Directory List of 1893
Scott, James, Garrion Tower, Overtown (also a wealthy industrialist)
Scott, James, commercial manager, Plevna Cottage, Newmains
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser 13 July 1899 p1
The Coltness iron Company Limited
Directors
Walter J Houldsworth, Coltness, Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Chairman
Sir William H Houldsworth, Bart,. MP Manchester
William Houldsworth, Rozelle, Ayr
J Hamilton Houldsworth, of Coltness and Castlebank, Lanark
Scott Lings, Temple Chambers, St James's-square, Manchester
James A Duncan, 161 West George-street, Glasgow (Secretary)
James Scott, Newmains, Lanarkshire, Joint Managing Director
Robert Russell, Newmains, Lanarkshire, Joint Managing Director
Dundee Courier 16 April 1900, p2
Coltness Iron Company ... The Directors are - Walter J Houldsworth, chairman; Sir W H Houldsworth. Bart., MP.; J Hamilton Houldsworth; Joseph Henry Houldsworth; J A Duncan; James Scott; Robert Russell.
DIRECTORS OF THE COLTNESS COMPANY SINCE INCORPORATION IN I881
James Houldsworth of Coltness - 1881-97
Walter J . Houldsworth, Coltness - 1881-1902
Sir William H . Houldsworth, Bt., of Coodham - 1881-81, 1897-1917
William Houldsworth of Mount Charles - 1881-1900
James Hunter of Glenapp - 1881-86
William Duncan - 1881-88
William Mackinnon - 1881-90
James Scott - 1884-1901
Arthur H . Houldsworth of Springfield - 1887-90
A. S. McClelland, C.A - 1890-99
W. A. Donaldson - 1891-92
J . Hamilton Houldsworth of Coltness and Castlebank - 1895-1941
Scott Lings - 1899, 1901-03
James A. Duncan - 1899-1918
Robert Russell - 1899-1923
Joseph Henry Houldsworth of Rozelle - 1900-10
Sir James King, Bt., of Campsie - 1901-11
Sir Henry H . Houldsworth, Bt., of Coodham - 1903-15, 1918-23
Henry E . Gordon of Aikenhead - 1911-24
Thomas Russell - 1916-25
Peter Rintoul, C.A - 1916-33
Robert M. Wilson - 1923-28
William H. Telfer - 1923-46
Wiliam A. Wilson - 1924-
Lord Invernairn - 1925-36
Lt.-Col. James F . H . Houldsworth of Coltness - 1928-
Wishaw Press 18 August 1933
OLD VOLUNTEERS
A week ago. I received a most interesting photo, a post card; the sender was Mrs David McWhirter, of Newmains. On the one side of the card are striking likenesses of eight officers in full uniform of the Newmains Volunteer Company of over fifty years ago, all known to me personally. Mrs McWhirter, on one side of the card, furnished me with the names of the eight marksmen of the long ago, but without Mrs McWhirter's "key" I would have no difficulty in identifying seven of the eight, namely, Sergt. John Gibb, so long foreman blacksmith at the Coltness Works, who was kind to me when I used to "botch" something on the "heel-tool." Sergt. A. D. Oliver - I remember his coming to Newmains, through the influence of his brother, John, who had charge of the "cloth-room" in Kirkland's Store. Captain James Scott, of Plevna, or "Scott the clerk," as he used to be called. It would be impossible for me to forget what he looked like when I was a boy. I can see him yet on the "Skule Road" going to and from the "big office" from Plevna, wearing his silk hat, and with a pleasant word for everybody he met. Sergt. Andrew Armour I can recall as being head- gardener at Murdostoun, and later as Superintendent of Cambusnethan Cemetery. He was an outstanding florist as well as a "crack shot." Next comes Sergt. " Sanny " Walker, to whom I owe more than words can express. He was a real gentleman, as well as "G" Company's most outstanding marksman. It is history of which Stanecraigs folks have always been proud-that in about 1881, had he not through nervousness missed the target with his last shot at Wimbledon, he would have won the Queen's Prize. I have a warm place in my heart still for Sanny Walker.
...
Glassboro, N J August 8th 1933
Bothwell was a village and a parish of North Lanarkshire. The village stands in the South West corner of the parish, near the right bank of the Clyde. The Clyde was here spanned by a suspension bridge leading to Blantyre Works, and by Bothwell Brig, leading to Hamilton. By road it is 2 1/4 miles NW of the latter town, 8 SE of Glasgow, and 36 1/2 WSW of Edinburgh. The parish church here is a fine Gothic edifice built in 1833 containing 1150 sittings, uprears a massive square tower to the height of 120 feet; E of which tower is the ruined choir of the old collegiate church, an interesting specimen of Second Pointed architecture.
The parish contains also the towns of UDDINGSTON (1 3/8 mile NNW of Bothwell village), BELLSHILL (2 1/4 NE), and HOLYTOWN (4 1/4 ENE), with portions of CALDERBANK (6 NE) and CLELAND (7 E), and the villages of NACKERTON (2 1/2 N by W), Carnbroe (4 NE), MOSSEND (2 3/4 NE), New Stevenston (4 5/8 E by N), Legbranock (5 3/4 ENE), Newhouse (6 3/4 ENE), CHAPELHALL (6 3/8 ENE) CARFIN (5 1/2 E), and NEWARTHILL (5 3/8 E by N).
Baptism SP: MCMILLAN ANN, father - THOMAS MCMILLAN, mother - MARGARET DIXON FR1814 (FR1814) F 21/05/1836 648/ 60 235 Lanark
Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Thomas Scott
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 19 Feb 1864
Birth Place: Cambusnethan,Lanark,Scotland
Father: James Scott
Mother: Ann Mcmillan
FHL Film Number: 6035516In the 1901 census Thomas is still single and living with his step mother. Still on own in 1911.
SCOTT THOMAS 1911 M 47 628/ 6/ Cambusnethan LanarkDeath SP: 1924 SCOTT THOMAS M 60 CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK 628/00 0043
Death: 1871 SCOTT WILLIAM M, aged 0, CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK 628/00 0205
Death: 1873 SCOTT SARAH F, aged 0, CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK 628/00 0092
According to the Old Scottish records of the Parish Church of Cambusnethan, Marion McMillan daughter to Thomas McMillan, Smith at Newmains and Margaret Dickson his wife born 28 July and baptised 25th August 1850 - 10th child. FHL British Film 1042968
Marion was James Scott's second wife. His first wife was Marion's older sister Ann. Marion and James were married in Switzerland as due to Scottish law you cannot marry a sister of a wife.
James Scott married Marion, on 26 February 1879 in Neuchatel Switzerland. Ann and Marion's father Thomas McMillan also worked at the Coltness iron foundry as a blacksmith. When James Scott married his second wife in Neuchatel he declared his parents were James Taylor and Janet Taylor (nee Scott).
Marion Scott died on 18 May 1912 at 135 Kirk Road Wishaw. She was described as the widow of James Scott, Iron master. She was 61 years old. Her father was Thomas McMillan a blacksmith and farrier at Coltness Iron works (deceased) and mother was Margaret McMillan (m.s. Dixon - deceased). The informant was Walter James Scott, her son.
Birth: Scotland, 1881, Walter James Scott, Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.
Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Walter James Scott
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1881
Birth Place: Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland
Residence Date: 1881
Residence Place: Scotland
Father: James Scott
Mother: Marion McmillanIn 1895 Walter Scott was the Dux of his class at the Coltness Iron Co's Evening Classes. Walter was the assistant time keeper at the Coltness Iron Works.
Walter Jas Scott witnessed his mother's(Marion) death certificate. He also witnessed the marriage of his brother (Robert) to Janet Lindsay Watson.
Family stories say that Walter was hard of hearing in his old age and used to go round to Robert (Bob) Scott's home and he needed to hold his hands behind his ears to hear.
Walter was a steelworks clerk at the Coltness Iron works and never married. His death was witnessed by his brother Robert Scott.
Birth: 1883 SCOTT WILLIAM HENRY M CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK 628/00 0502
According to his death registration William did not marry.
Birth: 1885 SCOTT ELIZABETH F CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK 628/00 0634
Elizabeth signed her brother William's death registration in 1938 as Elizabeth Scott, sister.
According to her death registration Elizabeth did not marry.
Wishaw Press - 12 April 1946
SCOTT.—At Edinburgh, on 8th April 1946. Elizabeth, daughter of the late James Scott, Newmains and late of 9 Chamberlain Road. Edinburgh.
SCOTT. - At Edinburgh, on 8th April 1946, Elizabeth. daughter of the late James Scott, Plevna, Newmains. and beloved sister of Alice Scott Fraser. 8 Whitehill Crescent, Carluke. At Rest.
Henry, born 1797, died 1867, a partner in the great cotton spinning business in Manchester founded by his uncle, Thomas Houldsworth.
Birth: Scotland GRO 04/06/1797 HOULDSWORTH HENRY HENRY HOULDSWORTH/JANE RICHARDSON FR917 M BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0040 0024
Birth: Henry Houldsworth
Birth Date: 4 Jun 1797
Baptism Date: 6 Jun 1797
Baptism Place: Gonalston, Nottinghamshire, England
Age at Baptism: 0
Father's Name: Henry Houldsworth
Mother's Name: Jane RichardsonHouldsworth Henry will proved 13/04/1868 esq, of Coltness, died at London.
Houldsworth Henry will proved 15/02/1889 of Coltness, County of Lanark, d. 16/01/1868 at London, testate
Henry Houldsworth of Coltness Will Summary 1868:
Executors are John Bannerman of Loyaston Keys near Monmouth, Murray Gladstone of Manchester, Philip Richard Falkner of Upton Hall Nottingham, James Hunter of Glenapp and Auldhouseburn in Ayr.
Eldest son James Houldsworth - Many assets including Coltness Estate
Second son Thomas Houldsworth - Many assets
Son William Henry Houldsworth - Many assets
Son Walter James Houldsworth- Many assets
Son Arthur Hooton Houldsworth - Many assets
Daughter Margaret Houldsworth - Many assets
Margaret the wife of John Bannerman 1,000 pounds
Jane Isabella Houldsworth daughter of brother John houldsworth 1,000 pounds
Eliza Houldsworth youngest daughter of brother John 1,000 pounds
Niece Jane wife of Rev George Alexander 1,000 pounds
Sister Mrs Jane Grierson 1,000 pounds
Niece Jane Houldsworth wife of Rev John Henry Browne 500 pounds
Niece Margaret Ann wife of Rev William James Peacocke 500 pounds
Niece Ellen Grame wife of Charles Henry Tynes Clinton 500 pounds
Jane widow of my late brother in law James Burt 500 pounds
Ann widow of my late brother in law John Burt 500 pounds
Annette Jane Campbell daughter of the late David Campbell writer to the Signet 500 pounds
Agnes Hutton daughter of the late Edington Siveston Hutton of Glasgow 500 pounds
Four nieces Mary Houldsworth, Jane Houldsworth, Sophia MacLeod and Helen Houldsworth the daughters of my late brother William 250 pounds each
Nieces Georgina Murray and Margaret Jane Murray 250 pounds each
Jane Burt sister of my late wife 100 pounds pa
Mary Oswald my late dear wife's maid 100 pounds pa
Trustees 250 pounds
Domestic servants 5 plus 3 per year of service
Betsy Hutton widow of Edington Sineaton Hutton, daughter Agnes Hutton 500 pounds
Charles Lings, my partner 250 pounds
Alexander Bain my cashier at Coltness and Mr William Fain my farm bailiff 50 pounds each
Most likely died before the second Walter James was born in 1845.
Houldsworth Thomas will proved 21/03/1876 Ironmaster, Glasgow, d. 05/02/1876 at Glasgow, testate
Houldsworth Thomas 25/01/1877 Ironmaster, Glasgow, d. 05/02/1876 at Glasgow, testate Corrective Inventory
84. Margaret Marshall HOULDSWORTH
Census: 3 Apr 1881 , Lasswade, Edinburgh, Scotland, Springfield House
Margaret Marshall Houldsworth (1839-1909) was a British campaigner for women's education and a philanthropist.
Her family were cotton manufacturers in Manchester who also had business interests, including mining and iron interests, in Glasgow and Lanarkshire. The family moved to Scotland where her parents died in the later 1860s and Houldsworth went to live with her brother near Lasswade for some time before settling in Edinburgh.
In 1871 she joined the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association which promoted university level education for women. Margaret Houldsworth became vice-president after Mary Crudelius died in 1877 and was still with the association, now called the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women, in 1892 when women were at last admitted to the Scottish universities. She also played an active role in setting up the Masson Hall residence for female students at Edinburgh University.
From 1872 she belonged to the Edinburgh Ladies' Debating Society led by Sarah Mair and, alongside Mair, was a central figure in starting classes and correspondence courses for women, and then in establishing St George's Training College and St George's School for Girls. The causes she supported benefited financially from her family's business success. As well as contributing to educational projects, Houldsworth supported the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, and Sophia Jex-Blake's Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, a forerunner of Bruntsfield Hospital.
Margaret Houldsworth died at home in Edinburgh, and was buried in Cambusnethan, near her parents' last home at Coltness.
Was he called Peter in the 1851 Cheetham census?
He appeared on the census on 3 Apr 1881 in Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland. Coltness House.
1893 Directory
House.
Houldsworth, Walter J., J. P., Coltness House
Census: 3 Apr 1881 , Lasswade, Edinburgh, Scotland, Springfield House
Springfield House
Lasswade, Edinburgh, Scotland
FHL Film 0224014 GRO Ref Volume 691 EnumDist 4 Page 15Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Arthur Horton HOULDSWORTH U 34 M England
Rel: Head
Occ: Iron Master & Cotton SpinnerMargaret Marshall HOULDSWORTH U 41 F England
Rel: SisterMarian BANNERMAN U 41 F England
Rel: CousinHouldsworth Arthur Hooton will proved 23/05/1890 Springfield House, Polton, County of Midlothian, d. 17/03/1890 at Springfield House aforesaid, testate
Probate Index: Arthur Hooton Houldsworth
Death Date 17 Mar 1890
Death Place Springfield House, Polton, County of Mid-Lothian
Confirmation Date 24 Nov 1891
Confirmation Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Birth: Scotland GRO 22/07/1798 HOULDSWORTH WILLIAM HENRY HENRY HOULDSWORTH/JANE RICHARDSON FR944 CHILD 2 M BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0040 0078
Oral family history reports that James Scott (b1838 Bothwell) was the illegitimate son of a William Houldsworth and Janet Scott (an upstairs-downstairs affair) and that James Scott got money but not the name of his father. There is some basis for this view as James Scott had a long term role at the Coltness iron works and the Coltness Ironworks were opened in 1839 by the Houldsworth family at Newmains. When James Scott died he had a substantial portion of shares in the Coltness Ironworks.
A number of William Houldsworths have been identified in the Houldsworth family. A Sir William Houldsworth was born in 1834 and was clearly too young to be James' father. A possible father was this William Henry Houldsworth born in 1798. In the 1841 census William Henry Houldsworth lived at Belvidere House, Barony, with his wife Mary and six children and six servants. It is conceivable that Janet Scott had been an earlier servant at that house when she conceived James Scott. This relationship thus can only be supposition and needs further confirmation.
William's father, Henry, began to expand the cotton business in Scotland, and by 1831 was the second largest cotton spinner in Glasgow. This business he afterwards removed to Cheapside Street, Anderston, where Henry Houldsworth carried it on in partnership with his two sons, William and John, under the firm of Henry Houldsworth & Sons. The company expanded into iron, establishing the Anderston Foundry and Machine Works, later known as the Anderston Foundry Company.
Henry Houldsworth & Sons in 1836 bought the Coltness Estate near Wishaw in Lanarkshire and set up the Coltness Iron Works in 1839. John L. Carvel, The Coltness Iron Company, Edinburgh 1948
William Houldsworth lived at Belvidere House in the 1841 census. The lands of Belvidere extend to twenty-five acres, and are situated about two miles eastward from Glasgow, on the line of "London Road" leading from Bridgeton to Clyde Iron Works. They are bounded on the east by the lands of Westthorn, on the west by those of Springbank, and the Clyde skirts them on the south. A right of salmon fishing was attached to the property. William Holdsworth sold Belvidere in 1851 to Robert Miller an ironmaster.
William Houldsworth's will was proved on 20/10/1854 he was a merchant in Glasgow, and the spouse of Mary Trueman Houldsworth.
William Houldsworth - Will Summary 1854
Wife Mary Trueman 1,000pa plus house
Executors: Henry Houldsworth merchant in Manchester, John Houldsworth merchant in Glasgow, James Hunter ironmaster at Coltness, James Murray merchant in Manchester, William Harper Minnoch merchant in Glasgow, William Houldsworth my eldest son, Joseph Henry Houldsworth my second son
Daughters Mary, Sophia, Jane and Helen Houldsworth 10,000 each
Sons William Houldsworth, Joseph Henry Houldsworth and Thomas Houldsworth most assests shared.
Houldsworth Mary will proved 30/10/1879 or Trueman, 9 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow, widow, d. 14/07/1879 at Springbank, Crieff, intestate
Birth: Scotland GRO 30/04/1833 HOULDSWORTH JOSEPH HENRY WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2458 CHILD 2 M BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0090 0356
Living with his sister Mary Houldsworth in 1881 Rozelle Mansion House, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Living with his sisters Mary and Jane Houldsworth in 1901 Rozelle Mansion House, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Probate Index: Joseph Henry Houldsworth
Death Date 30 Nov 1910 died aged 77
Death Place Ayrshire, Ayr, Scotland
Probate Date 23 Mar 1911
Probate Registry London, England
Birth: Scotland GRO 13/11/1834 HOULDSWORTH THOMAS WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2534 CHILD 3 M BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0090 0509
Birth: Scotland GRO 07/12/1835 HOULDSWORTH MARY WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2616 CHILD 4 F BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0100 0114
Baptism: Mary Houldsworth
Birth Date Dec 1835
Baptism Date 07 Dec 1835
Baptism Place Barony,Lanark,Scotland
Father William Houldsworth
Mother Mary Trueman
FHL Film Number 1041478Mentioned in Henry Houldsworth's (b1797-d1868) will.
Living with her brother Joseph H Houldsworth in 1881 Rozelle Mansion House, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Scotland Probate Index: Mary Houldsworth
Death Date 18 Sep 1912
Death Place Rozelle, Ayr
Confirmation Date 18 Oct 1912
Confirmation Place Ayr, Scotland
Birth: Scotland GRO 14/11/1838 HOULDSWORTH JANE WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2765 CHILD 6 F BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0100 0407
Mentioned in Henry Houldsworth's (b1797-d1868) will.
Probate Index: Jane Houldsworth
Death Date 1 Jan 1916
Death Place Ayrshire, Scotland
Probate Date 15 Jul 1916
Probate Registry London, England
Birth: Scotland GRO 29/11/1839 HOULDSWORTH THOMAS WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2877 CHILD 7 M BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0110 0029
Houldsworth Thomas will 09/02/1867 merchant in Glasgow, son of the late William Houldsworth Houldsworth Thomas will 21/03/1876 Ironmaster, Glasgow, d. 05/02/1876 at Glasgow, testate
Scotland GRO 20/10/1841 HOULDSWORTH HELEN WILLIAM HOULDSWORTH/MARY TRUEMAN FR2993 CHILD 8 F BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0110 0258
Mentioned in Henry Houldsworth's (b1797-d1868) will.
Houldsworth Helen will proved 07/05/1868 Miss, residing at 9 claremont Terrace, Glasgow, daughter of late William Houldsworth.
43. Margaret Graeme HOULDSWORTH
Birth: Scotland GRO 02/01/1800 HOULDSWORTH MARGARET HENRY HOULDSWORTH/JEAN RICHARDSON FR980 CHILD 3 BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0040 0150
Scotland Marriages: Margaret Houldsworth
Marriage Date 12 Feb 1829
Marriage Place Barony,Lanark,Scotland
Father Henry Houldsworth
Spouse Philip Richard Falkner
FHL Film Numbers 0994184, 0994185, 0994683, 0102880, 102883, 1041480, 0994183
Marriage:
The Rev. John Henry Browne, Vicar of Lowdham. Notts, to Jane Houldsworth eldest daughter of P. R. Falkner, Esq., of Upton HaU, Notts
John Henry Browne was the Rector of Cotgrave (1811-1858) and also Archdeacon of Ely (1816-1858). He and Elizabeth Ward Spilsbury had 8 children.
Francis Henry (1814-1875) married Catherine Eudora Thorpe in Wairoa NZ in 1860
Catherine Ann (1816-1850)
John Henry (1817-1891) Vicar of Lowden married Jane Houldsworth Falkner
George Harwood (1818-1901) married Amelia Allenby 1850, then Catherine Laura Plomer in 1867.
Elizabeth Augusta (1822-?)
Alethea Jane (1827-?)
Edward Waite (1827-1885) married Fanny Blackden 1862(my g.g,grandparents), then married Edith Alethea Franklyn (mother was Mary Jane Arden)
Samuel Benjamin (1831-1906) Vicar of Plumtree married Charlotte Hope in 1863 then married Mary Armitage in 1875
Scotland GRO 08/01/1803 HOULDSWORTH ANN, HENRY HOULDSWORTH/JANE RICHARDSON FR1047 CHILD 5 BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0040 0280
Cotton Spinner of Manchester
Mentioned in Henry Houldsworth's (b1797-d1868) will as sister Jane Grierson.
Birth: Scotland GRO 29/12/1804 HOULDSWORTH JANE, HENRY HOULDSWORTH/JANE RICHARDSON FR1095 AND 1096 CHILD 6 BARONY GLASGOW CITY CITY/LANARK 622/00 0040 0371
104. Henry Houldsworth GRIERSON
Manchester Marriages: Euphemia Pearce
Marriage Date 29 Apr 1868
Marriage Place Weaste, St Luke, Lancashire, England
Parish as it Appears Eccles Weaste, St Luke, Lancashire, England
Father Matthew Pearce
Spouse Henry Houldsworth Grierson
Reference Number L136/1/2/1
Archive Roll 567
John Houldsworth was born at Cranston Hill, Lanark in 1807, the son of a Nottingham cotton-spinner who moved to Cranston Hill and worked in Kelvinbridge. After receiving part of his education in Glasgow, John Houldsworth had the then unusual good fortune to be sent abroad to finish it, first at Geneva and afterwards at the University of Heidelberg. John's father, Henry, began to expand the cotton business in Scotland, and by 1831 was the second largest cotton spinner in Glasgow. This business he afterwards removed to Cheapside Street, Anderston, where he carried it on in partnership with his two sons, William and John, under the firm of Henry Houldsworth & Sons.
John ultimately became the head of the spinning business. The company expanded into iron, establishing the Anderston Foundry and Machine Works, later known as the Anderston Foundry Company.
In 1836 he married Eliza, daughter of John Muir, one of the founders of the well-known firm of Muir, Brown & Co., and by her he had the following children:
(i) Henry, of Carrick House, Ayr;
(ii) John Muir, also of Ayr;
(iii) the Rev. William Houldsworth, a clergyman in London;
(iv) Jane who married to Colonel Edward Shaw, and
(v) Lillah who married to Lieut.-Col. George Wingate Oldham, R.E.
(vi) ElizaEarly as he was entered to business, and closely as he stuck to it, John Houldsworth was more than a mere man of business. His hours of leisure were given up to two of the most delightful pursuits in the world. He was devoted to art and he was a keen yachtsman. In many ways did he show his love of art. Not only had he a fine collection of modern pictures, which may or may not prove much, but he knew a good deal more about pictures and art than most amateurs. He loved artists, and was the friend of Roberts, Stanfield, Thomas Faed, John Philip, Leech, Sir Edwin Landseer, and Macnee. He carried his love of art into every detail of life. Two years before his death he bought No. 1 Park Terrace, and resolved to have it furnished and decorated in the most artistic way known at the time. With this view he employed John Thomas, sculptor, of London, to design the furniture a scheme of decoration. The magnificence of the furniture was so much talked about that the Queen and Prince Albert paid Mr. Thomas' studio a visit to see them. On leaving, Her Majesty said, "You say the gentleman's name is Houldsworth. It ought to be Goldsworth." These designs were never carried out, for Mr. Houldsworth died before the house was finished.
He was also a great lover of music, and was himself an accomplished musician. He sang a good song, and had a piano even in his yacht. Probably his happiest days were spent when in his yacht with some artist friends and others as he explored the Firth of Clyde, or sought those far-off Western Isles. Mr. Houldsworth was an ardent supporter of the Royal Northern Yacht Club, and Vice-Commodore at the time of his death. Not content with supervising three large businesses and occupying himself with art, music, and yachting, Mr. Houldsworth was a member of the Town Council, and at his death Senior Bailie of the city. Had he lived he would doubtless have been chosen Lord Provost.
There were few more popular men in Glasgow than the kindly, genial John Houldsworth. It is said by one who knew him well that he was never seen out of temper, and as the deponent had frequently been away yachting with him the evidence is weighty. In business also he was liked for his uprightness and fairness, while he was respected for his ability.
He died at Glasgow, 1859.
Houldsworth John will proved 23/12/1859, father of Henry Houldsworth and John Muir Houldsworth and June Isabella Houdsworth and Eliza Houldsworth
Houldsworth was born in Cranstonhill the son of Henry (1770-1853), the Nottinghamshire cotton spinner who established a thriving steam-powered cotton spinning mill in Anderston at the beginning of the 19th century. John was a partner in Henry Houldsworth & Sons, which established in 1823 the Anderston Foundry and Machine Works (under the management of their firm, the Anderston Foundry Co) in Cheapside Street.
Henry Houldsworth was a long-serving Provost of Anderston and John was the burgh's last Provost, before it was annexed by Glasgow in 1846. John became a Glasgow councilor 1856-1859 and died holding the position of a Senior Bailie. He was a keen yachtsman (a Vice-Commodore of the Royal Northern Yacht Club) and an accomplished pianist.
Burial: John Houldsworth
Birth Date 1807
Birth Place Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
Death Date 1859
Death Place Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
Cemetery Glasgow Necropolis
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
Also of Carrick House, Ayr
Also of Ayr.
Births and Baptisms Barony 1838-1842
Film 1041479John HOULDSWORTH merchant Cranston Hill, and Elizabeth MUIR had a lawful son
their 2nd child, born 9th February 1839, named John Muir. Henry HOULDSWORTH
senior and junior, witnesses. Baptised March 1839.
In Henry Houldsworth's (b1797-d1868) will, Eliza is described as the youngest daughter of brother John.
Henry was the oldest Son of James M'Connel, Esquire, of the Polygon, Ardwick, near Manchester, mill-owner in Manchester, and proprietor of the lands of Carsriggau andUrral, in the county of Wigtown, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Henry Houldsworth, farmer at Gonalston Hagg, in the county of Nottingham; which James was son of James M'Connel, farmer at Hannastown, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
115. James Alexander Kennedy MCCONNEL
Australian Death: James Alexander Kennedy McConnel
Death Date: 06 Feb 1863
Death Place: Queensland
Father's name: Henry Mcconnel
Mother's name: Isabella A Murray
Registration Year: 1863
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Number: 000223
Page Number: 9555
61. Canon James McConnel HUSSEY
Dorset, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-James McConnel Hussey, bachelor, Esquire of Melcombe Regis
Gender Male
Marriage Age Of Age
Marriage Date 26 Mar 1844
Marriage Place Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England
Father William Hussey, Esquire
Spouse Lara Moffat, spinster, of full age, of Melcombe Regis
Spouse father William Moffat, EsquireEnglish Burials: James Mcconnel Hussey
Age 71
Death Date abt 1891
Burial Date 23 May 1891
Burial Place Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth Lambeth, England
Register Type Bishop's Transcript
Comments Reused graves at NorwoodEngland & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941
The Reverend James Mcconnel Hussey of the Parsonage Christchurch North Brixton Surrey clerk, to Lawrence James William Hussey a captain in her Majesty's Army, Effects 11,667 pounds.
Death Date 19 May 1891
Death Place Surrey, England
Probate Date 20 Apr 1892
Probate Registry London, EnglandOxford Alumni 1886
Hussey, James McConnel, 5s. William, of Glasgow, arm. Exeter Coll., matric 24 Jan 1839, aged 19; BA 1843, MA 1857, held various curacies 1846-54, hon. canon of Rochester 1878, vicar of Christ Church, North Brixton, since 1855.
