Dixon's Blazes
Monday, 16 April 2012 22:11
Sometimes deeds have a long initial narrative which is very interesting and informative. I have just been looking at a deed which gives a long link in title between William Smith Dixon and Mary Bagnell or Morgan, who in 1900 inherited large areas of ground owned by William Dixon, including the site of the famous Dixon's Blazes Ironworks on the south side of Glasgow beside Rutherglen, not far from where I spent the first 10 years of my life. There was obviously a lack of children in the families involved, which gave an interesting line of succession. William Dixon left his land to his wife, who left it to her nephew (who had to add the surname Dixon to his name). He then left it to his wife, who in turn left it to her sister, Mary Bagnell or Morgan. The residue of these titles is still owned by the Trustees of Mrs Mary Morgan, whose husband was a Surgeon Major in the army.
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Minerals
Monday, 05 March 2012 21:26
I am doing a minerals search and ploughing my way through the Hamilton Estates in Lanarkshire. There is a limit to how much I can do at one time before I start falling asleep. This is not my favourite kind of job, but somebody has to do it! The search sheet for the Hamilton Estates is the only one I have ever come across where they left a whole volume blank for it when they started the Second Series of Search Sheets in 1905. They didn't even give the Search Sheet a number, so one had to be assigned to it when it was digitised - they called it 1H. The whole search sheet covers 688 pages in the one Volume and then there is the Electronic Search Sheet after that. I didn't have to start at the first page for my present minerals search, but it was not that far into it. Interesting to note the reservation of minerals in nearly every sale up until the nationalisation of coal, after which they didn't bother reserving the minerals nearly as often.
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