Re: Blackwoods from Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
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In reply to:
Blackwoods from Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
2/23/11
We lived in Beith for 10 years up to 1981 and I remember the butcher's shop well.I often wondered whether there might be a connection between the families.My great grandfather was a Thomas Blackwood who was born in 1846 but he was obviously not your Thomas as he was a miner born in Leadhills and died in Douglas Lanarkshire in the 1920s.
There were very many Blackwoods living in Leadhills going back to at least the early 1700s and they all had big families.There are none at all left there now as I visited the village a few months ago and both went through the graveyard checking tombstones and spoke to the oldest inhabitant.