Person:Robert Dreghorn (2)

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Robert Dreghorn
b.Abt 1748
  1. Robert DreghornAbt 1748 - 1804
  2. Elizabeth DreghornAbt 1751 - Abt 1824
  3. Margaret Dreghorn1755 - 1822
  4. Marion Dreghorn - 1815
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Name Robert Dreghorn
Alt Name Bob Dragon
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1748
Christening? Abt 29 Nov 1748 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death? 1804 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Robert “Bob Dragon” DREGHORN d. 1804 at Glasgow ("Minute book of the Board of Green Cloth" (1891) by Colin Dumlop Donald, b. 1848). A Robert Dreghorn was b/chr 29nov1748 (mother Agnes Bryson) at Glasgow (scotlandspeople). Robert d. 19nov1804; Robert Dreghorn of Rough Hill lived at Clyde St. (Old Glasgow essays, 1905, by John Oswald Mitchell, b. 1826). Robert came into possession of Blochairn and Ruchill; some sources claim he was the son of Allan Dreghorn. See “Anecdotage of Glasgow”.

From Jones’ Directory, 1787: ROBERT DREGHORN OF RUCHILL(Or "Bob Dreghorn," as he was called all over the city) occupied a large house fronting West Clyde Street, and was in the daily practice of walking up Stockwell Street to the Cross. He was a tall, gaunt figure, dreadfully marked by small-pox; with a large crooked nose, and a pair of eyes that looked in opposite directions. He had a great antipathy to mischievous boys whom he belaboured with his walking-stick whenever any of them came within reach of the "Dragon's" arm; and had as great a partiality for servant girls with bare feet! He was, in short, the embodied ideal of ill-nature and ugliness: mothers used to frighten their children by the mention of his name; and yet he was known to be a kindly-disposed man. One morning in 1806, he was missed from his usual walking-ground; and on inquiries being made, it was discovered that poor Bob had died by his own hand. The story ran that his house was haunted; and so strongly did this feeling prevail, that it remained empty and forsaken for many years afterwards.

A caricature of Robert appears in “Views and notices of Glasgow in former times” (1848), see p. 114 at <http://www.archive.org/stream/viewsnoticesofgl00stuauoft#page/n7/mode/2up>