John Cameron b.1795

This pair of weavers' cottages in Kilbarchan is owned by the Scottish National Trust. The site is located in Shuttle Street, where John and Janet brought up their family at number 12. There were nine of them living and working in a cottage similar to these. John's loom was in the basement.

 

A view of the small terrace in Kilbarchan called Cartside. It is possible that it is the location where John and Janet moved some time after 1861(see a discussion under 'Family Trail). Wherever the true location was, their 26-year-old son Duncan died there in 1868, and both John and Janet spent their last years there. John died there aged 82 in 1877.

 

Extract from the Old Parish Records of the parish of Port of Menteith in Perthshire, recording the baptism of John Cameron. The record reads : "John lawful son to Duncan Cameron & Grizal Kenedy in Drunkie" (the last word is difficult to read, but there is a small loch to the north-west of Port of Menteith called Loch Drunkie. This is most likely to be where they lived).