5. James Kelso
According to Aunt Meg,(#2) James, her grandfather, had owned trading smacks named "Jeannie" and the "Dasher", which carried limestone from Corrie to the mainland to be sold for agricultural purposes. He also built Kelso (or Kelso's) Cottage in Corrie, having previously built and lived in a bothy sited about 400 yards north of Birch Point (Carlo), close under the cliff. The stones of what was possibly this building can still be found, altho' covered in moss etc.
26.04.03: In telephone conversation with #269, Anne Stenstrom Kelso or Lyman, she told me tha t on a visit to Arran about 1989, my father, Ebenezer Kelso, had given her a framed pencilportrait drawing of James Kelso. I remember this drawing hanging on the wall of his house in Sannox, "Rigside"
OPR Kilbride Parish gives (19/7/94) birth date as 17 MAY 1812 with no record of baptism
11. John Kelso
Some doubt as to whether month of birth and baptism has been transcribed correctly from OPR (Kilbride page 15). Possibly both should be September 1835 To be confirmed. Died of fever According to gravestone erected at Sannox by his father, date of death in Cacutta was 11 JUL 1860
13. Alexander Kelso
Some uncertainty whether this entry correct and that the MI referred to, at Sannox graveyard, is in fact "Uncle Sandy", since dates of birth and death (1840 and 1929) given elsewhere, differ.
Sandy, for a long period worked on his brother, James' smack, the "Jeannie". He lived at South High Corrie and had no family
Thought to have been married to Alexander Kelso (#16)
16. Janet Kelso
The progeny of this marriage requires further investigation (2002)