Person:John Black (115)

Margaret MCNAIR married John BLACK, known as John BLACK of Claremont 22 aug 1796 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire. The family is said to have spent the summer at Claremont (presumably Claremont and not Clairmont as sometimes written, undoubtedly in the west of Glasgow) and the winter at a mansion at the head of Jamaica St., Glasgow. Excerpt from the article on Kelvingrove House from „The old country houses of the old Glasgow Gentry“: Clairmont House (built by Mr. John Fleming, a well known Bombay merchant, and hence dubbed "Bombay Castle"), long stood in its own beautiful grounds, isolated and conspicuous. People wondered that it should have been built so like a street house. But Mr. Fleming firmly believed that Glasgow would come out to Clairmont, and planned his house for the centre of a row. And it now forms, just as he built it, No. 6 Clairmont Terrace. The old house of Clairmont, the residence of the Blacks of Clairmont, which stood on the flat below, has long vanished. But the porter-lodge to Sandyford Road is still standing, forlorn, out at elbows, and out of place, in the garden of Clifton Place. From "Glasgow past and present" by Robert Reid (1856): "In Jamaica St. there was a mansion erected before the close of the last century by Mr. Black (John Black, calico printer), an eminent merchant of the city. John Black, calico printer, was not Lord Provost." Glasgow PO Directory 1801 has the following entry which could refer to John Black: Black, Jn. and Co., calico printers, Leitch's court, Trongate (glasgowstory website). The will of the mother of Margaret, Margaret McNair nee Barton, (National Archives), drawn up 11oct1826, mentions her daughter, widow of "John Black of Claremonnt". Scottish archives have the will registered in Glasgow 12may1837 of Margaret BLACK nee MCNAIR, widow of John BLACK, merchant.

1.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
3.   various. Family letters (2).