Meikles
There are at least two instances of where a family of Meikles has married in to a family of Hopes.
1. Meikles of Innerleithen and Peebles.
William Meikle married in 1849 in Innerleithen, Peeblesshire Janet Hope who was descended from the Hope family of Bold. Traquair Parish in Peeblesshire. They had three children - Christina born in Leith in 1851,Isabella born in Leith in 1852 and Janet born in Innerleithen in 1857.
2. Meikles and Dougals of Polmonthill Farm
Robert Meikle was born in Linlithgow in 1817. His parents were John Meikle and Janet Kerr.
Janet Dougal was born in Abercorn, Linlithgow in 1819. Her parents were William Dougal and Marion Ferguson.
Robert Meikle and Janet Dougal were married in Linlithgow on 03-12-1843. They had a total of seven children.
Marion Meikle born in 1845. Married James Kerr in Polmont 1870
John Meikle born in 1846. Married Elizabeth Johnstone.
Janet (Jessie) Meikle born in 1848.
William Meikle born in 1851.
Robert Meikle born in 1857. Married Janet Park in 1889 and farmed Bearcrofts in Grangmouth.
Margaret (Maggie) Meikle born in 1859. Married W.W. Hope at Polmonthill in 1880. see Hopes of Falkirk page.
James Meikle born in 1861.
The first five children were all born in Linlithgow while Maggie and James were born in Meigle in Perthshire. The family must have moved to Meigle in 1858. They were there for the the 1861 census where Roberet senior is listed as a Tilemaker. However by the 1871 census they were back in the Linlithgow area where he was farmer at a fifteen acre farm named Holequarter in Polmont Parish. By 1880 they had moved to Polmonthill Farm.
In December 1893 Robert and Janet celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Polmont Hill Farm. Janet died in 1896 and Robert the following year.
Newspaper Cutting of 1893
Photograph of Janet Dougal (1819-1896) c1885.
A James Meikle of Polmont Hill is listed as a Life Member of the Falkirk High School Club book of 1914.
Polmont Hill Farm, according to the internet, is now bizarrely a Ski Centre!
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