Descendants of William SCOTT
Notes
In the 1851 census Thomas and Isabella Scott and family are living next door to Thomas' parents John and Sarah Scott.
Death:1877 SCOTT THOMAS M 71 BOTHWELL /LANARK 625/01 0040
Possible Death: Scotland 1890 MCGREGOR ISABELLA, SCOTT, F 85 TRADESTON GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/13 0329
This Margaret may be the same Margaret as that born in 1803 but because she was listed in a different child order and date in John Scott's death certificate it has been assumed there were two Margarets.
Death: Scotland, 1866, David Pollock, aged 75, Bothwell
In the 1841 Census of Bothwell (ED3 page 7) a Janet Scott, a female servant, was living with the William Samelson, a surgeon, in Bellshill, Bothwell of Lanarkshire. She was born in Lanarkshire and was aged 31. At that time her son James was living with his grandparents also in Bothwell, under the name of James Taylor.
Oral family history reports that James Scott was the illegitimate son of Sir 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.
Janet Scott died in 1846 about 8 years after James Scott's birth.
Some five 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. 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 Houldsworth's (b1798) father Henry Houldsworth bought the Coltness Estate near Wishaw in Lanarkshire in 1836 and set up the Coltness Iron Works in 1839. He was 62 years old at the time. The success of Coltness led to the founding of the Dalmellington Iron Company in 1848. The Company remained in the control of the Houldsworth family, firstly via Henry's children and later his grandchildren until 1906.
Marriage: James Scott
Spouse: Elizabeth Venables
Year of Registration: 1839
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Liverpool (1837-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 20
Page: 185
Death: Scotland 1863 SCOTT JAMES GALL M 1 BOTHWELL /LANARK 625/01 0192
It would appear that Thomas is called Pete in the 1871 census.
This Christina may be the same Christian as that born in 1811 but because she was listed in a different child order and date in John Scott's death certificate it is assumed there were two Christina/Christians.
In 1851 it looks as though Christina is the servant to the then manager of the Coltness Iron Works. These Iron works feature strongly in this Scott family.
Christina had an illegitimate child called Christina as in the 1861 census she is shown as unmarried with an 8 year old daughter Christina.
Marriage: 1855 SCOTT David, HILL Mary, Chester, Holy Trinity Cheshire West CE12/2/211
Marriage: David Scott
Spouse: Mary Hill
Year of Registration: 1855
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Great Boughton
County: Cheshire, Flintshire
Volume: 8a
Page: 457
