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- 5th child 3rd son. Grocer & Flesher in Main Street Barrhead.
!851 Census shows him as a grocer aged 28 & unmarried, living with is brother Alexander in Barrhead.
A newspaper clipping 21 Dec 2000 in the Herald ( Maybe Neilston or Barrhead)
" 150 YEARS AGO.
STOLEN or Strayed, from a field near Barrhead on or about the 7th ,two blackfaced sheep & lamb, the sheep keeled on the back of the neck & across the back . Whoever may have found same , by returning them to Robert Carswell , grocer & flesher , Barrhead , will be rewarded.
1861 Census Neilston.
Main St. Barrhead.Jean Carswell Head Widow 67 House Keeper born Neilston.
Robert Carswell Son Unmarried 37 Grocer born Neilston.
1871 Census.
Main St. Barrhead, Robert Carswell, Head, Married,49, Grocer, born Neilston.
Agnes Carswell ,Wife, 36, born Neilston.
Jean Carswell, Mother , Widow, 79, born Neilston.
Agnes Carswell, Neice,13, born England, Mrs Brown ?
Jean Carswell, Neice, 9 , Scholar.born Neilston.Alex C .& Eliz Purdons Daug ?
Robert Carswell, Grocer died 15 April 1873, age 51 years,married to Agnes Stevenson, having had disease of the brain 14 months.Funny thing is Alex (or Alan) Watson, neighbour registered the death.
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