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Joseph Bain
Esq (1760 - 1841)
Joseph Bain
was born on 6 August 1760 in Longniddry, Tranent, East Lothian -
at that time Haddingtonshire. He was the third child and third son
of William
Bain and Katherine Watson. Little is known about the early
years of Joseph's life. His brother James
went to Edinburgh University, but died at the age of 29 in 1776.
Joseph appears
to have moved to Glasgow,
Lanark to pursue business interests sometime before 1791, because
it is here that his marriage to married Margaret Bell is
registered on 20 Mar 1791. Margaret was born in 1766, the third
child and second daughter of William Bell and Marion White
(also recorded as Mary) of Edinburgh, Midlothian. The fact that
they got married in Glasgow seems unusual given that both were from
East Lothian. It is likely that the marriage record (on IGI) is
in fact Banns, and that they were actually married in Gladsmuir.
Irrespective
of whether they married in Glasgow or East Lothian, it appears that
Margaret may have remained in Tranent, because it is here that their
first child was born less than 9 months after the wedding. Joseph
and Margaret had 5 children - 3 sons and 2 daughters - between 1791
and 1797.
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Joseph
Bain Born 1791. Died 19 Feb 1832. Never married |
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William
Bain Born 1 Aug 1793. Died 1 Mar 1813. Never married |
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Marion
Bain Born 13 Apr 1795. Died at age of 10 in 1805 |
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Cathrin
Bain Born 19 Jul 1796. Died young |
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John
Bain Born 16 Aug 1797 |
Margaret must
have moved to Glasgow after the birth, but some time before 1793,
as the births of the last four children are all registered in Glasgow.
Both of the families daughters died young, in about 1805.
Margaret died
on 17 Nov 1806 leaving 3 young sons aged between 15 and 8. On 29
Apr 1807 Joseph married for a second time to Janet Blair.
The marriage is registered in both Tranent, East Lothian and in
Glasgow. Joseph and Janet had no children of their own. The family
suffered another loss when William John's second son died at the
age of 19 in 1813.
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Joseph
was a mail contractor and the owner of a stage coach company
- The Coaching Co of Nelson St Glasgow - which ran not only
in Lanark but across the country. He had with offices located
near the Trongate, where he had gas lighting installed in
his offices in 1818 at a cost of 10s. 6d .
It is
thought that the family originally lived in the Westport area
of Glasgow, but during the 1810s Joseph became extremely properous,
realising a large enough fortune to purchase of Morriston
House of Cambuslang
in the early 1820s - when Joseph was in his early 60s. It
is likely the house was purchased from a Mr Owen who is recorded
as owning it 1818. At the time Morriston was a 50 acre property.
Joseph's
eldest son Joseph junior studied at Edinburgh University and
was an advocate of the the Scottish Bar. He was known as
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"younger of
Morriston" and apparently had a child - Joseph Kelly. Interestingly
this child was not recognised in Joseph Jnrs will when he died at
the age of 41 on 19 Feb 1832. He was the 4th of Josephs children to
die.
Joseph Jnr left
his full estate to his brother John,
and it was not until Joseph Snr died on 28 April 1841 that Joseph
Jnrs child was recognised with a bequest of £500.
Joseph left
an extensive estate - including Morriston - to his remaining son
John, with beneficial usage of the estate left to his wife Janet
Blair for the term of her life. Janet
outlived her husband by nearly 6 years, eventually passing away
on 2 Feb 1847 at 'Ballgreen' in Hamilton, Lanark.
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Morriston
House
The estate was originally owned by the Morays, and gets it
name from that family "Moray's town". The first
record of the estate was in 1556 when the property was transferred
from Mr William Hammyitoune - rector of Cambuslayage (sic)
- to Archinbald Blackburne. In 1659 the property was owned
by Sir Ludovic Stewart - Laird of Minto - who also owned Rosebank
and Coates. By 1683 the property was owned by John Miller.
The property was occupied by a Mr John Kerr in 1673, and by
1724 had been purchased by the Maxwell family.They disposed
of the property in 1798, when it was purchased by John Campbell
and later sold to a Mr Owen.
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The 50 acre
property itself was fully surrounded by a wall, surmounted with
great iron railings, curved inward to iron gates. The house was
quite large and 'tasteful, a 3 story plain rectangular building
situated on the east side of the gate, on a slope and surrounded
by trees, about 300 yards from the river Clyde.
The House was
pulled down in 1911 and the firestation was built there on what
is now called "Mansion Road"
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