QUILIETTI Guilo and Irene Park – connected lines
Irene married Guilo Quilietti in 1956 and they had two sons David and Alan.
With her in the photo are her two grandchildren Chris and Sarah Quilietti who are Alan and his wife Grace’s children.
Alan passed away very prematurely in 2020.
THE PARK LINE – Paternal lines
- Have traced Irene’s Park line back to 1670 when Thomas Park was born in the area of Hutton in Berwickshire in the Borders. He had a son Alexander 1695-1748 who married in Hutton Church in Berwick on 24th May 1719 to Janet Turner.
- Hutton Parish is situated in south east Berwickshire on the border with England. The Parishes of Chirnside and Foulden are to the north, the Parish of Mordington lies to the east, the english County of Northumberland is on the south and the the Parishes of Ladykirk, Whitsome and Edrom all lie to the west.
This 1861 census showing the elderly couple living in the Village of Horncliff. No. 13.
George had married Agnes Edington 1788-1886 on 5th June 1814 in Norham in Northumberland.
Have only managed to trace two of their children to date, but their son George was one of them and Irene’s 2nd Great Grandfather. They both enjoyed long lives
The Tweed produced salmon so plentifully that as early as the 13th century it was pickled and exported to London as food for the poor.
Two centuries ago, before ice became easily available, most of the salmon was pickled, salted and packed in barrels by the Berwick coopers ready to be taken by sea to London market.
â€By the early 1800s the fish were so plentiful in the Tweed that that they employed their own Salmon Fisherman and Irene’s ancestors were amongst them.
At one time catches were so abundant, it is said that servants complained when given it too often for meals. In 1816, an estimated 300,000 salmon and grilse were caught in the Tweed. Poaching was then, and still is, a problem.
On the legal side, the traditional methods of the Tweed’s netsmen have not changed in centuries either. They row their short, flat-bottomed boat, a coble, in an arc, laying a net. The high pointed bow is the distinctive feature of the Tweed coble.One man on shore holds the rope on the rear end (the hint end) of the net. The coble comes back to the shore where the rope on the front end (the fore-end) is winched initially. The net is the hauled in by the crew, hand-over-hand.
The Park family enjoyed their life in this little town and we can trace George Park’s family with his wife Grace Watson throughout the years from 1841 to 1891.
Robert Walker and Alice[Alison] Forrest
with 1st great grandparents David Park and Ellen Walker on their wedding day 1870
at 66 Archibald Place in Edinburgh, Church of Scotland
David 1843-1895 had become a TAILOR, Journeyman and had moved up to Edinburgh where they were residing at No. 23 Fleshmarket Close, off the High Street in Edinburgh at the time of their marriage.
His wife was Ellen Walker 1851-1812.
Ellen’s father Robert Walker was a Joiner. Her mum was Alison Forrest. Alison’s family were from Aberlady in East Haddingtonshire where her father had a farm at West Linton there. Alison had previously been married to Andrew Brown and they had 3 children.
The family moved up to Edinburgh where David worked as a Tailor. We find them in 1881 in the Canongate and in 1891 at 9 Elliot Street in south Leith
Their eldest son and direct line Robert Park 1873-1923 worked as a Plumber
At the time of his marriage in 1900 he was living at 218 Easter Road.
Jane Lawrence was from nearby Bothwell Street, both Leith.
This marriage opens up new ancestors in the family with the introduction of the Lawrence and France families from Perth.
James Lawrence with his parents Robert Lawrence and his wife Elizabeth More 1804-1878 and his siblings.
His father Robert 1796-1861 worked as a Cotton Weaver in the Mills. Love the address North Side of the Street of Auchterarder.
By 1861 James was working as a Cart Wright Apprentice and still in Auchterarder.
His father Robert had now passed and his mother the Head of the Family.
By 1871 James and had married Jane France and moved to Crief in Perthshire and was a Joiner Journeyman.
By 1881 the family had moved down to Edinburgh and were residing in South Leith.
THE FRANCE and STOBBIE connections Irene’s paternal lines
Carnock is a village and parish of Fife, Scotland, 4.2 miles west of Dunfermline. It is 1.3 miles east of Oakley, Fife. The Stobbie line were Farmers
https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95055066#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=115&xywh=-1054%2C58%2C6511%2C4826
You can see he is the son of Archibald France and Janet McGregor.
Archibald the son of David France and Ann Duncan.
After David and Elizabeth married we find the couple in the 1841 Scottish Census.
David worked as a Tollkeeper at an address called Gorthy Toll in Wester Fowlis in Perthshire. 1851, 1861 census information includes their children and he now works as a labourer on the roads in Wester Fowlis. By 1871 the couple alone again have moved to Methven where he is still described as a labourer. 1881 now in NewRow Cottages in Methven and still working on the roads. A hard life indeed. 1891 was the last census for the couple. Elizabeth died in 1896 in Newrow, Balgowan, Methven and David died in 1906.
McGRIGGOR or McGregor connecions
When Janet McGregor was born on September 9, 1783, in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland, her father, Peter, was 23, and her mother, Mary, was 24. She married Archibald France on September 11, 1814, in Blackford, Perthshire, Scotland. They had seven children in 13 years. She died on October 7, 1862, having lived a long life of 79 years.
MATERNAL LINES – LOWE, BROUN, THOMSON, DUNN and more
The Lowe line stretch back down the coast to Humbie in East Lothian.
They lived in Cockpen which was a parish in Midlothian, Scotland, containing at its north-west corner the town of Bonnyrigg, which lies two miles south-west of Dalkeith. It is bounded on the west and north by the parish of Lasswade, on the east, by Newbattle and on the south by Carrington.
Here we find Alexander Lowe born c 1730 working in the farms on the East Lothian Coast.
He married Agnes Broun. b c 1730
Irene’s THIRD GREAT GRANDPARENTS
William Low and MARGARET ANDERSON
William was also born in Humbie
Irene’s SECOND GREAT GRANDPARENTS
Alexander Low and Margaret Mitchell
The Mitchell family were from Prestonpans
In the 1851 census Alexander described as an agricultural labourer and living New Land Burn in Borthwick, Midlothian. He died in 1858.
Margaret still worked on as the Gatekeeper of the Papermill in 1861 when she was 65.
Irene’s GREAT GRANDPARENTS
James Lowe and Agnes Thomson
lived in Westmill, Cockpen, East Lothian for a number of years with their young family.
He was described as a Foreman [papermill] in the 1871 census. After Agnes died in childbirth in 1879 he remarried and the family moved to Bonnyrigg. Here in 1881 he was working in a Paper Mill.
with George Thomsone and Janet Marjoribanks.
The line right down to Agnes who married James Lowe were all from that area and Cockpen in particular. In 1841 the family home of Agnes’s parents was an an address called Fountain in Lasswade. Her Father James worked in the Quarries.
Occupations – there were Mills in the area as well as Mining
COCKPEN, a parish, in the county of Edinburgh, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Dalkeith; containing the villages of Bonnyrigg, Dalhousie, Gowkshill, Hillhead, Hunterfield, Polton-Street, Prestonholme, Skiltiemuir, Stobhill-Engine, and Westmill. This place, which is on the river South Esk, is supposed to have derived its name from the situation of the church upon an eminence, and the prevailing colour of the soil.
The Dunn family connections. The Dunn line are all from Leith where they worked in the many factories and industries around at that time when Leith was booming. Irene’s mum was Christina Gordon Dunn Lowe 1900-1974 and she was given the names not only her mum and dad but also of her Great Grandmother Christina Gordon.
His mother was Christina Gordon also born in Leith
John’s father, James Dunn described himself as a Master Carter in the 1861 Scottish census. He and Christina with their children were living at Johnston’s Lands, 36 Yardheads, in South Leith at this time.
