William Urquhart

  General Notes:

In 1841, William was listed as a millworker, living with his wife and children and in 1851 census as a cotton carding master, still in Catrine. On 2.4.1863, his son John wrote to his brother-in-law "My father having got into difficulty with his property, I have given him one way and another from forty to fifty pounds during the last two years and I have them still to assist as the Catrine Cotton Mills have been shut up since September last, the workers get half pay but that is a miserable pittance the wages being small at best."

William married Jean Ferguson, daughter of James Ferguson and Mary Fisher, on 24 Oct 1834 in Sorn, Ayr, Scotland.¹³¹ (Jean Ferguson was born on 18 Feb 1813 in Muirkirk, Ayr, Scotland and died on 12 May 1890 ¹³¹.)