Christopher Ingram – Moss Side Brickworks, Crossmyloof to Avondale Brickworks, New Zealand
— 03/07/2024Many thanks to Liam Miles and Jenny Miller for much of the following information regarding their ancestor,
Read moreParticularly during the industrial revolution, many Scots headed abroad and some took up brick manufacture in their adopted country. I will list them here when I find out about them. At some point I will also try and source, from abroad, a sample of the bricks they manufactured.
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Peter Smith – Inverarity to Dundee Brick and Tile Works, South Africa
— 30/03/2023Dundee Brick and Tile Company, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 04/11/1899 – St. Andrews Citizen –
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Overseas brick manufacturers advertising for Scottish brickworkers
— 12/04/202213/11/1840 – John O’ Groat Journal – A very interesting letter from Sydney, under date
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James Kirkwood – Dykehead Fireclay Company, Bonnybridge, Scotland to Alexandra Brickworks, Singapore
— 13/11/2020Established in 1899, Alexandra Brickworks was the first brickyard in Singapore to produce bricks using
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John Cathles Hill from Dundee, Scotland to Hornsey, London, England
— 04/08/2020John Cathles Hill (1857–1915), builder and brickmaker, was born in Anderson’s Entry, Hawkhill,
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Swinley Brothers brickmakers in Australia?
— 03/07/2020(Note – SBH – From the details below, Andrew Swinley left Scotland in 1946 for Australia
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John Nelson – Scotland to Otago, New Zealand
— 01/04/2018John Nelson was a Scot who operated the brickworks at Benhar, Otago, New Zealand. In 1864, Nelson opened
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Robert Selkirk – Fifeshire, Scotland to Ballarat, Australia.
— 01/04/2018Robert Selkirk, I was born at Fifeshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Australia with his young family in
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James Glover – Scotland to Bolivar, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
— 23/12/2017Scottish immigrant James Glover is credited with initiating the local (Bolivar, Westmoreland Co.) firebrick
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Alexander Munro – Cathcart, Lanarkshire, Scotland to Pennsylvania, USA
— 19/10/2017Alexander Munro. Born 9 Oct 1805 Cathcart, Lanark, Scotland. Death 5 Apr 1872 Lock Haven, Clinton Co.,
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John Deans – Riccarton, East Ayrshire, Scotland to Canterbury, New Zealand
— 21/07/2017Many thanks to Matthew Hennessey, Underground Overground Archaeology, Christchurch, New Zealand. John
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Peter McSkimming – Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, Scotland to Otago, New Zealand.
— 15/07/20171851 – Andrew and Hugh McSkimming, Tile maker, Shawneuk, Catrine, Ayrshire. Peter McSkimming was
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Thomas Todd – Kilchattan, Isle of Bute, Scotland to New Zealand.
— 15/07/201713/11/1849 – Greenock Advertiser – Marriages – At Braeside Cottage, Rothesay on the
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Miscellaneous newspaper articles
— 11/11/2016Some newspaper articles I find, are difficult to marry up with a relevant brickworks. In such cases,
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James Campbell – Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland to Brisbane, Australia
— 30/06/2016James Campbell (1830-1904), businessman and manufacturer, was born on 6 March 1830 at Auchterarder, Perthshire,
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J. W. McMillan – Glasgow, Scotland to Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
— 07/10/2015Wiki source J. W. McMillan (May 5, 1850 – December 1925) was an industrialist and brick supplier. Born
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A Neill – Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland to Bradford, England
— 19/06/2015Found by Old Frechevillian at found Manningham, Bradford, West Yorks. Archibald Neill, Listerhills, Bradford.
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William Cahoone – Luss, Scotland to Swansea, Massachusetts, USA
— 23/10/2014I have added this due to the Scottish interest. 1673 – 1675 – The Cahoon Brickworks –
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