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m. 17 Mar 1842
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James Touris (1757 Quoigs, Dunblane, Stirlingshire- ?1820 Glasgow) and Helen McLehose (b. bef 1775) had son William Towers Clark (29jul1805 Glasgow-23apr1870 Glasgow) who married (in 1851) Isabella Romanes Curle (1826 Melrose, Roxburghshire-24aug1892 Edinburgh) (ancestry.com tree). James Towers was educated at Edinburgh, married Helen, daughter of James Maclehose of Newlands, d. 1820, father of Towers Clark, Glasgow solicitor (Memorials of Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow). Gulielmus Towers (No. 10299, matriculated 1819) f. n. 4tus Jacobi Proffessoris in Academia Glasguensi. William Towers-Clark. B. Glasgow 29jul1805, Of Wester Moffat. Writer in Glasgow. D. suddenly in a railway carriage nr Clarkston 23apr1870. Cousin of 5214, on whose death in 1859 he succeeded to Wester Moffat and assumed the name of Clark; brother in law of 10825 whose sister he married (Matriculation Albums Glasgow University). No. 10825 was son of William Mills and Janet Stewart; thus Elizabeth Mills was maybe b. 15jan1811 at Gorbals, Lanarkshire (IGI). In 1841 the Towers family (b. Lanarkshire) were at 144 Bath St., Barony: Mrs. Helen (1771, independent), Helen (1801, independt), Margt (1801, independt), Robt (1806, merchant) and William (1806, writer) (census at freecen site). In 1851 William Towers (1806 Glasgow, procurator, solicitor Sheriff Ct. Lanark), children, b. Glasgow, Janette Stuart/Stwark (1844), Hellen (1845), Elizabeth Marim (1847), were at 27 Blythswood Sq., W., Barony (census). In 1861 William T. Clark (1806, solicitor and proprieter), wife Isabella T. (1826), daughter Elizabeth M. I. (1847), b. Glasgow, were at 27 Blythswood Sq., Glasgow, Lanarkshire (census). References
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