[BITList] Stationery, on a roll

[HUGH]

John,



A very interesting source, moreso because I have early paper making in my 
family.  As early as 1828, James Walkinshaw built a paper mill on the hills 
high above Greenock to take advantage of the water supply from a newly made 
water system that took water from a loch (man made) and channelled it 
downhill into the river via branches to various mills and other works. 
Walkinshaw was the nephew, or the brother-in-law (too much trouble to look 
up which), of the No 1 suspect for the post of 3xgreat grandfather to me. 
Just to keep it in the family, Robert Thom, who designed and built the water 
system, was a (very) distant relation of mine by marriage. But that doesn't 
end the family bit.  When Walkinshaw gave up the mill, it passed to a firm 
of which my great gran's uncle was senior partner (no relation whatever to 
Walkinshaw).  Following the bankruptcy of a printworks near Paisley (they 
printed shawls) my great grandfather and up to 100 other handloom weavers 
who supplied the works were left without support.  So James and his wife and 
family upped sticks about 1857 and moved to the paper mill in Greenock - a 
cottage and employment for their 9 children.  Lacking all that, I might not 
have been born.



Hugh.