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History of the Porteous family

A Historical background to Emigration

Porteous migration worldwide

Where did the emigrants settle?

Porteous at War
World Wars I and II

Some useful Resources for Researchers

Downloads of Emigrant
listings

Sources for Porteous
family historians

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A SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Lesmahagow in the 18th Century

Reproduced 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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