THOMAS (b. 1838) (Position 18 on the Genealogy Report.) Thomas was born in the Barony parish on 4 March 1838, five years after Janet.  (No births have been located between Janet's and Thomas's.)  He married Margaret Ramsay on Christmas Day 1857.  Margaret was the daughter of John Ramsay and Agnes Kilgour, and she was born in Govan, Glasgow, on 22 March 1835.  Thomas was 19 years old, and Magaret 22, when they married.  Thomas is known to have been a dairyman in 1858 when his first child was born in Hayburn Street, Partick, and also in 1881 when he and the family were still living in Hayburn Street.  (Partick, although near to Glasgow, was at that time a burgh in its own right, and quite independent from Glasgow.)  He was also described as a dairyman when he died on 25 May 1898, at 17 Yorkhill Street, Anderston, Glasgow, aged 60.  Margaret died aged 76, on 3 December 1911, at 12 Blantyre Street, Glasgow.  Alexander and Margaret are known to have had ten children: Alexander, born on 24 November 1858, in Hayburn Street, Partick.  Alexander was to become a master mariner (sailing as 1st mate), but he and all of the crew of the Bay of Cadiz were lost at sea after leaving Sydney, New South Wales, on 20 October 1888, bound for San Fransisco with a cargo of coal.  Alexander married Annie Clark on 12 January 1885, in Ballainlay School House, North Bute.  Annie was the daughter of John Clark and Mary Hannah.  Alexander and Annie had one child, a son, also Alexander.  Alexander Jnr. was born on 7 July 1887, at Ballainlay School House, North Bute.  Annie died on 22 January 1925, in Dunoon Cottage Hospital, Argyll.  Her usual residence was given as Renfield, Hunter's Quay, near Dunoon.  It is not known what became of Alexander Jnr., but he appears to have died before his mother. John was born on 16 February 1860, in Hayburn Street, Partick.  He was described on the 1881 census as a grocer's assistant.  John married Barbara McDougall on 4 April 1892 in [Bakeley] Terrace, Kelvin, Glasgow.  Barbara was the daughter of Thomas McDougall and Jane Campbell.  John and Barbara are know to have had three children: Jeannie Campbell, born about 1893; Margaret Ramsay, born 4 May 1895, in Buccleugh Street, Glasgow; and John, born 27 July 1901, in 31 Wilson Terrace, Glasgow.  John Jnr. was, like his father, a grocer, and is known to have had a busy and prosperous licensed grocer's business in Hope Street, Glasgow.  John Jnr. married Elizabeth Nelson on 11 June 1946, and died on 26 January 1959, in 121 Hill Street, Glasgow.  As far as known, the couple had no children.  John Senr. died on 15 March 1939, in 1063 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Thomas, born on 1 November 1861, in Hayburn Street, Partick; died 19 December 1861. Thomas, born on 29 January 1863, in Hayburn Street, Partick; died 21 January 1869. David, born on 18 March 1865, in Hayburn Street, Partick; died 18 March 1865. David, born on 14 May 1866, in Hayburn Street Partick.  David was described on the 1881 census as an apprentice blacksmith, but was later a dairyman like his father, with premises in Byres Road, Glasgow.  He married Margaret Reynolds on 3 December 1889 in 4 Minerva Street, Anderston, Glasgow.  Margaret was the daughter of James Reynolds and Margaret Mathieson.  David and Margaret are known to have had six children: Margaret, born 9 May 1890, at 59 Crawford Street, Partick; Thomas, born 28 October 1891, at 452 Byron Road, Partick; David Ramsay, born 13 March 1893, at 5 Wood Street, Partick; Helen, born 11 October 1895, in Partick; James, born 21 September 1896, at 87 Byres Road, Partick; and William, born 2 January 1900, at 9 Wood Street, Partick.  It is not known when David Senr. died. Agnes was born on 13 June 1868, in Hayburn Cottage, Partick.  Nothing else is known of her. Elizabeth, one of twins, was born on 25 June 1870, in Hayburn Street, Partick.  Elizabeth is known to have been a dressmaker, but it is not known if that was before, or before and during her marriage.  She married on 11 March 1896, aged 25, and died, age 77, on 22 April 1948.  Elizabeth's husband was George Anderson, a master draper, and son of John Anderson and Catherine Sommerville.  They were married at 22 Buchanan Street, Glasgow.  It is not known when George Anderson was born, but it is known that he was at some time a Provost of Peebles, and that he died on 12 January 1933.  Elizabeth and George had three children: John Dunlop, born 21 February 1898, at 11 Old Town Peebles, was lost at sea on 4 April 1918, whilst on war service.  Thomas Dunlop, born 13 July 1901, at Old Town, Peebles, married Margaret (Peggy) Trotter on 5 September 1931, at Lyne Parish Church, Peebles.  Thomas and Peggy had no children, and Thomas died on 17 March 1989.  There was also a daughter, whose name and date of birth is not known, but it is thought that she married a clergyman. William, Elizabeth's twin brother.  William was alive in 1881, but nothing is known of him after that. Thomas Dunlop, born 27 November 1875, in Hayburn Street, Partick.  Thomas was a gilder to trade.  He married Mary Kirk McCracken, daughter of Allan McCracken and Mary Agnes McKee, in Blythswood, Glasgow, on 2 September 1904.  Shortly after their marriage Thomas and Mary emigrated to the U.S.A. where Thomas set up in business as a gilder and picture framer.  It is understood that Thomas did a lot of work for the Metropolitan Museum of New York.  Thomas died, aged 85, in Long Island, U.S.A.  Mary died in the U.S.A. in 1961, aged 82.  Thomas and Mary had four children, all born on Long Island, U.S.A.  They were: Thomas (b. 1908), Margaret (year of birth unknown), Elizabeth (year of birth unknown), and Mary (year of birth unknown).

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