John Liston

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Ereignisse

20 Februar 1807 Hochzeit: Newhaven, North Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, ♀ Margaret McDOUGAL [McDOUGAL]

~ Juni 1808 Geburt eines Kindes: North Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, ♂ William Liston [Liston] b. ~ Juni 1808 d. < 1851

Anmerkungen

According to the "Dictionary of Scottish History", there was a Liston barony in Mid and West Lothian, held by the Knights Hospitallers (also known as the Knights of St John of Jerusalem). The Knights Hospitallers had their headquarters in Scotland at Torphichen. This is confirmed in "The Surnames of Scotland" by George F. Black, in SLQ, where it is said that Liston is from the old barony of Liston, now included in the parish of Kirkliston.

Some relevant dates from Scottish history: 1783 - the government imposed a tax on every christening, marriage and burial entry recorded in church records. This probably led to many events going unrecorded.

1793 - the tax was repealed. Because many people had not been recorded in parish registers during the 10 year existence of the law, sometimes whole families were recorded afterwards.

1810 - the first power loom was used in Scotland, heralding increased building of factories.

'North Leith originally belonged to the parish of Holyroodhouse, from which it was disjoined and erected into a separate parish in 1606. It then comprehended only the village of North Leith, and the coal hill, which are part of the barony of Broughton, but in the year 1630 the barionies of Newhaven, and Hillhouse-field, which belonged to the parish of St Cuthberts or West Kirk, were annexed to it. The parish is of an oblong figure, extending along the seachore about an English mile in length, and is a quarter mile in breadth, it is bounded by the Firth of Forth on the north, by the parish of St Cuthberts on the west, and by South Leith on the south and east.' (From the Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799 Vol II)

Bibliography The Story of Leith by John Russell was published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd of London and Edinburgh in 1922. The book is 472 pages long and includes an index. The history starts with prehistoric times and runs through to the First World War, just before the book was published.

The Port of Leith: its history and its people by Sue Mowat, ISBN 0 85976 403 6, published by Forth Ports PLC (Leith) in conjunction with John Donald Publishers Ltd. The bokk concentrates on the history since1329 when Leith was granted by Robert the Bruce to the burgesses of Edinburgh. The story is told through the people of Leith, and illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and copies of original documents. The history runs right up to 1994 and there is an extensive bibliography section at the end, as well as a detailed index. The book is 468 pages long.

Source: Gen UKI www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/MLN/NorthLeith/index.html Accessed 01 Oct 2006

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