Jean Galloway

1815 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Jean Galloway
  Birth	11 Sep 1815
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I85191	First tree
  Last Modified	22 May 2020

  
  

  Father	William Galloway
  Mother	Elizabeth Taylor
  Family ID	F74507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles Douglas,   b. 16 Dec 1816, Mid Lethendy, Fowlis Wester, Perthshire, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1838	Fowlis Wester, Perthshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Charles Douglas,   b. 1839, Menstrie in Logie, Perthshire, Scotland d. February1928, East Cultmalundie, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 89 years)   2. William Douglas,   b. 1841, St. Ninians, Bannochburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland d. Apr 1924, New Fowlis, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 83 years)   3. Elizabeth Douglas,   b. Abt 1844   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Peter Douglas,   b. Abt 1848   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F74476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  In the 1851 census Jean Douglas nee Galloway was a widow, a pauper, working as a woolwinder. She lived at Norton Place, Alva with children William (9), Elizabeth (7) and Peter (3). Elizabeth was a scholar, probably in Alva. Presumably Norton Place is now part of Norton Street. There were several mills so it is hard to know which one she was employed at. It must have been a struggle to bring up a young family by herself and part of the solution was to send young Charles to live with her own mother - back at Fowlis Wester. As Jean was described as a pauper she was in receipt of poor relief even though she had a job. Jean Galloway returned to the parish of Fowlis Wester between 1856 and 1861 and may have spent the remainder of her life living at New Fowlis, a small collection of houses where the junction lies from Fowlis Wester to the Perth-Crieff Road. The 1861 census places Jean with her three eldest children in Fowlis Wester parish, probably at New Fowlis. This was a hous or two along from her brothers who were smiths. In 1878 she found herself responsible for grandson Peter. Her mother was described as a 'smith' in the 1851 census