John Lamont (1841 - 1921)

Born 29 Jan 1841 in Port Bannatyne Bute Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Kirkwood Nicol — married 19 Nov 1867 in Free Church of Scotland Kilcreggan Roseneath Argyll Scotland

Descendants

Died 4 May 1921 at age 80 in 71 Summertown Road Govan Glasgow Scotland

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John was the oldest of the family being born in the family home in Port Bannatyne on the 29th of January 1841.

John's siblings Duncan ( born 1844 ) , Mary ( born 1842 ) ,and Catherine ( born 11th of February 1849 ) , were all born in Port Bannatyne but the others Margaret, Christina and Colin were all born in Glasgow.

John became a master tailor and established his business close by the family home ( a red sandstone flat at 99 Waterloo Street, Glasgow ) at 4 Washington Street. He married Margaret Kirkwood Nicol at Kilcreggan on the Clyde on the 19th of November 1867. On the 5th of November, 1868, Uncle Bob or Robert Spalding Nicol Lamont arrived at 141 Thistle Street in the Gorbals Parish of the City. A year later,my grand father Colin Lamont was born at 455 St Vincent Street in a well appointed tenement flat in the Anderston District near the old parental home in Waterloo Street. Margaret Nicol Lamont was born in January 1875 but died tragically aged 4 months of acute hydro cephalus. The 1871 Census reveals John as a master tailor employing 1 salesman,1 woman and a boy

In 1876 tragedy again struck when John's youngest brother Colin died aged 22 years. He was a hosiery warehouseman. In 1878 Uncle Johnnie or John Graham Nicol Lamont was born. The Graham name was after Mary Graham from Drymen his maternal grand mother.

The Lamonts were obviously relatively prosperous as by now they had a summer place in Dunoon near the place where the McPhorichs had originated at Hafton. They rented a flat in Glassary House Hillfoot Street Dunoon from a Mrs Turner wife of a John Turner for a period between 1885 and 1888. ( Valuation Roll for Dunoon and Kilmun Parish page 168 entry number 6146 ). This information was kindly supplied by Murdo MacDonald, County Archivist of Comhairle Earraghaidheal agus Bhoid.

On the 7th of September 1885 at quarter past seven in the morning Margaret Kirkwood Nicol died. The death cert. states " of convulsions 2 days confinement " at Glassary House. John remarried on the 4th of October 1887 to Isabella Nairn, a dressmaker who lived in Berkely Street near where John lived. She was 24 years old. He was 46.

John' s second family declared his Argyllshire and particularly his Cameron and MacPhorich connections. Ivan Cameron Lamont and his twin sister Hafton Gibson Lamont were born on the 18th of July 1888 where Margaret Kirkwood Nicol had died, namely Glassary House in Dunoon. For a long time I pondered the name " Hafton " or as I thought at the time "Haston " from the copy of the certificate that I transcribed in New Register House. She died aged 10 months like her late step sister Margaret, from acute hydro cephalus. John and his new wife had a further three children . Ailsa Lochiel Lamont, Cona Glencoe Lamont and Athol Davaar Lamont. Athol died in the First World War and is listed under " Marine Returns ". Ailsa died at the family home Breezy Cliff Tarbert in 1954 whilst Cona died in 1973 in Innellan. of Ivan, I could not find any statutory records. He may have, like his antecedents gone abroad or even " down south ".

John moved to 33 Summerston Road and changed employment to a " bath superintendent ". He died on the 5th of April 1921 aged 80 years of influenza. His daughter Ailsa, aged 31 married from that address 4 months later to Archibald Leitch a 34 year old bank accountant from Tarbert.