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Chart 10007 Robert Brownlee and Janet Walker in Carluke |
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There were Brownlees in the Carluke district of Lanarkshire for many generations. Most of them worked on the land, some on the farms of Lee, Braidwood and Mauldslie, others in the orchards that clothe the banks of the Clyde in that part of the valley. Occasionally a member of the family left the soil to learn a trade or set up a business of his own. Such was William Brownlee who, in 1695, had a smithy in Carluke where succeeding generations were trained to follow him. The next member of the family of whom anything is known was Robert Brownlee, also a blacksmith, who was born in 1742. When his son James, assumed control there is no likelihood that he ever thought of himself as an industrial pioneer, even though he belonged to the generation of blacksmiths who extended their scope of operations to become iron-founders and engineers. His motives appear to have been simple and self centered. He was a successful tradesman who owned a place where he could repair the growing number of farm implements coming into use in that part of Scotland.
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