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Home / Scottish Brickmakers Abroad
  • Overseas brick manufacturers advertising for Scottish brickworkers
    — 12/04/2022

    13/11/1840 – John O’ Groat Journal – A very interesting letter from Sydney, under date

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  • James Kirkwood – Dykehead Fireclay Company, Bonnybridge, Scotland to Alexandra Brickworks, Singapore
    — 13/11/2020

    Established in 1899, Alexandra Brickworks was the first brickyard in Singapore to produce bricks using

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  • John Nelson – Scotland to Otago, New Zealand
    — 01/04/2018

    John Nelson was a Scot who operated the brickworks at Benhar, Otago, New Zealand. In 1864, Nelson opened

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  • Robert Selkirk – Fifeshire, Scotland to Ballarat, Australia.
    — 01/04/2018

    Robert Selkirk, I was born at Fifeshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Australia with his young family in

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  • James Glover – Scotland to Bolivar, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA
    — 23/12/2017

    Scottish immigrant James Glover is credited with initiating the local (Bolivar, Westmoreland Co.) firebrick

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  • Alexander Munro – Cathcart, Lanarkshire, Scotland to Pennsylvania, USA
    — 19/10/2017

    Alexander Munro. Born 9 Oct 1805 Cathcart, Lanark, Scotland. Death 5 Apr 1872 Lock Haven, Clinton Co.,

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  • John Deans – Riccarton, East Ayrshire, Scotland to Canterbury, New Zealand
    — 21/07/2017

    Many thanks to Matthew Hennessey, Underground Overground Archaeology, Christchurch, New Zealand. John

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  • Peter McSkimming – Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, Scotland to Otago, New Zealand.
    — 15/07/2017

    1851 – Andrew and Hugh McSkimming, Tile maker, Shawneuk, Catrine, Ayrshire. Peter McSkimming was

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  • Thomas Todd – Kilchattan, Isle of Bute, Scotland to New Zealand.
    — 15/07/2017

    13/11/1849 – Greenock Advertiser – Marriages – At Braeside Cottage, Rothesay on the

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  • James Campbell – Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland to Brisbane, Australia
    — 30/06/2016

    James Campbell (1830-1904), businessman and manufacturer, was born on 6 March 1830 at Auchterarder, Perthshire,

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  • J. W. McMillan – Glasgow, Scotland to Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
    — 07/10/2015

    Wiki source J. W. McMillan (May 5, 1850 – December 1925) was an industrialist and brick supplier. Born

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  • A Neill – Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland to Bradford, England
    — 19/06/2015

    Found by Old Frechevillian at found Manningham, Bradford, West Yorks. Archibald Neill, Listerhills, Bradford.

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  • William Cahoone – Luss, Scotland to Swansea, Massachusetts, USA
    — 23/10/2014

    I have added this due to the Scottish interest. 1673 – 1675 – The Cahoon Brickworks –

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  • Munro
    — 12/05/2014

    Found at Bo’ness, Firth of Forth. This was found on a section of the shore directly alongside a

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