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From: "Lona Boudreaux" <>
Subject: Re: Glen Village, Falkirk/ Hamilton
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:44:26 -0500
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Hi Doreen,
I saw your e-mail to Ray and the town Falkirk mentioned. My maternal
ggrandfather, Alexander Hamilton, and his father James Yure Hamilton, were
born in Glen Village, Falkirk Scotland. Alexander was born Dec. 6, 1865 and
James August 18, 1842. James and his wife Janet Muir came to America in
1869 with Alexander and their other son David. I was told James was a clay
miner in Scotland. In America they settled in Pa. and were coal miners.
Would you be familiar with the Hamilton's from that area? I have more
information if you are interested.

Lona
Houston, Tx



> Hello Ray
> Falkirk is a town in Stirlingshire of approx. 144,000 inhabitants and it
is
> also a Parish - (number 479). If you go into the Falkirk Council site on
the
> internet you will get a lot of information about the town.
>
> Slamannan is a village close to Falkirk. Strangely enough, my family has
> links to there as well. My father-in-law was born there as well as a lot
of
> his siblings. It was a mining area in the 19th. century - and for the
early
> part of the 20th. century, but now it is just a quiet little village
> nestling in the Stirlingshire countryside.
> Doreen
>

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