Direct descendant is highlighted in red

FATHER

David Gilmore

MOTHER

Anne Hutton

WIFE

Helen Fowler

CHILDREN

1. David Gilmore
 b. 26 Sep 1778 Carnock
m. 17 Jul 1807 Janet Gibson in Edinbugh
d. 02 Aug 1862 Carnock

2. Helen Gilmore
b. 27 May 1780 Carnock
m. 29 Mar 1805 James Roy in Carnock
d. 30 Sep 1870 Dunfermline

3. John Gilmore
b. 5 Jun 1782 Carnock

4. George Gilmore
b. 17 Jul 1783 Carnock
m. 16 May 1810 Margaret Cuddie in Dunfermline
d. Abt. 1820 in Virginia, USA

5. John Gilmore
b. 03 Jul 1786 Carnock

6. William Gilmore
b. 12 Mar 1789 Carnock
m. 10 Nov 1838 Anne Henderson in Dunfermline
d. 28 May 1872 Poorhouse in Dunfermline

7. Margaret Gilmore
b. 30 Jun 1791 Carnock

8. Janet Gilmore
b. 22 Aug 1794 Carnock

9. James Gilmore
b. 15 Sep 1797 Carnock
m. Margaret Hardeston
d. 03 Feb 1867 Poorhouse in Dunfermline

John Gilmore
by Susan Brooke
July 2017

John Gilmore was born 4 Sep 1749  in Crossford where his father worked as a mason. (1)  Shortly thereafter, his father obtained some land in Pitdinney on the outskirts of Cairneyhill.  About this time the secret of linen weaving had been brought to Dunfermline by a James Blake who feigned mental weakness while observing the machines in Edinburgh.  In 1749, the year John Gilmore was born, the British Linen Company was doing business in Dunfermline.

John Gilmore grew up in Pitdinney and married Helen Fowler about 1777.  He became a mason, like his father.  However his sons all became weavers.  The Historical & Statistical Account  of Dunfermline Vol I by Peter Chalmers written in 1844 says there were 400 looms in Dunfermline in 1768 but only 10 or 12 in 1778.  The looms required two men on either side working the feet treadles and making the pattern, with a boy or girl at the side of the loom, drawing cords from the pulleys above it.  It was labor intensive.  Gradually improvements were made.  In 1778 a fly shuttle was introduced, etc.  The weavers earned a guinea a week, but if the cloth did not sell, their take home might have been reduced to about 16 shillings a week. 

John Gilmore and his wife had 9 children with the youngest born in 1797.  John Gilmore and his wife both died five years later.  He died 02 Jul 1802 and Helen died 09 Nov 1802 in Cairneyhill.  (2) They were buried in Cairneyhill burial Ground. (3)

John's son David, born in 1778, married Janet Gibson.  In the 1832 voter list he was a proprietor of a dwelling house, shop office and land in Cairneyhill. In the 1851 census he was a Master Table Linen Weaver and in 1861 he was a Head Damask Weaver.  He died at the age of 83.  He seems to have done fairly well.  However, two of his brother's died in the Dunfermline Poorhouse.  William was listed in the 1851 census as a Hand Loom Weaver.  His wife Ann (Henderson) whom he had married in 1849 was a Pirn Filler. ( kept the spool of yarn filled)  She died before her husband.  William died of "general disability for several years" in 1872 at the age of 84 in the poorhouse.  The youngest son James was a Damask Weaver.  In 1851 he was married (Margaret Hardeston) and they had a servant living with them.  However, he too died in the poorhouse at the age of 69.

A middle son, George, married  Margaret Cuddy in 1810.  He was listed as Weaver living in Pittincrief.  They had a son, John, born the next year.  But then Margaret died and George took off for America taking his 3 year old son with him.

Sources

(1) Baptismal Record

"David Gilmore mason in Crossford and Anne Hutton his spouse had a son born Sept 4 and baptized the 14th Named John, Witnesses Robert Henderson, Smith and John Thompson wright, both in Crossford."

(2) Death Record from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

"John Gilmore Mason and Feuar in Cairneyhill"
A Feuar was someone who had a "feu" of land and paid "feu" duty to the original owner.

Findagrave Ireland and Scotland

(3) Index of Cairneyhill Burial Ground gives date of death as 1804
Burial in Lot# 87 next to Helen Fowler.

In the baptismal record for his son, George Gilmore, in 1783 John Gilmore is referred to as "mason in Cairneyhill."  In 1802 "John Gilmore" and his wife were both buried in the Cairneyhill Burial Ground.

map showing nearness of Dunfermline to Carnock, Cairneyhill and Crossford.

Many of the baptismal records, etc. are recorded as being in Carnock when they were probably actually occurring in Cairneyhill.  Carnock is the civil parish.