A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDLesmahagow in the 18th CenturyReproduced with permission from 'Lesmahagow, The Parish and the People' by W Clelland, excerpts of which are also published on the Lesmahagow OnLine website.This gives a very good idea of the social and historical background to life in the town of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which will also be relevant to an understanding of the life of Porteous families in Peeblesshire and Annandale. History of Lesmahagow Refer also to the Lesmahagow OnLine website All family histories are reproduced with permission of the authors. In other cases, every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. The publisher of this website apologizes for any unintentional omissions and would be pleased, in such cases, to place an acknowledgment in future. |
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