tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post5061163462080236204..comments2024-03-13T16:33:53.563+00:00Comments on <b>Dr Tony Shaw</b><br>: Lionel Britton — A Brief BiographyDr Tony Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07565448709541046337noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-91739329761957492292009-05-15T10:26:00.000+01:002009-05-15T10:26:00.000+01:00Thanks for the kind words, defrosted. Sorry to be...Thanks for the kind words, defrosted. Sorry to be so late in replying, but I only noticed your comment very recently. Care to tell me about your research?<br /><br />TonyDr Tony Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07565448709541046337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-23937373747449350992009-02-11T02:21:00.000+00:002009-02-11T02:21:00.000+00:00Thank you for posting all of this information abou...Thank you for posting all of this information about Britton on your blog. He first came to my attention in 2003, when fumbling around in the dark trying to get some background on other obscure writers such as Jack Common.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-90617824007093196732008-11-10T12:04:00.000+00:002008-11-10T12:04:00.000+00:00Well written article.Well written article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955844379699946887.post-51100906429759091802008-06-15T22:00:00.000+01:002008-06-15T22:00:00.000+01:00Lionel Britton claimed to be a distant cousin of t...Lionel Britton claimed to be a distant cousin of the Earls of Mar and Kellie.<BR/>The fact that his middle name was Erskine is no doubt a marker of that descent. His grandmother Catherine Erskine Britton, (nee Smith), the mother of Richard Britton, Lionel's father, was in turn the daughter of Elizabeth Smith, nee Nimmo; apparently born on 10th April 1796 at Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.<BR/><BR/>Elizabeth's parents were Thomas Nimmo, a druggist or apothecary, and Elizabeth Harding.<BR/>The eight known children of this couple were as follows:-<BR/>Jean Nimmo b. Jul 12th 1784<BR/>Alexander McLachlan Nimmo b. Mar 7th 1786, described as a daughter!<BR/>Abigail McRae Nimmo b. Apr 24th 1787<BR/>Margaret Nimmo b. Aug 28th 1788<BR/>Catharine Erskine Nimmo b. 16th Feb 1791<BR/>Robert Nimmo b. Jun 27th 1793<BR/>Elizabeth Nimmo b. 10th Apr 1796<BR/>Thomas Nimmo b. Aug 1st (5th?) 1799.<BR/><BR/>Abigail married a farmer near Greenock, Robert Nicholson. Their son, Robert, married his first cousin Elizabeth Mary Smith, a daughter of Elizabeth Smith, (nee Nimmo), herself. Elizabeth Mary died tragically young, and was on her deathbed at the census of 1861.<BR/>Intriguingly, her husband at that time was Richard Chalmers, so the match with Robert Nicholson doesn't look as if it was successful.<BR/><BR/>It is not clear who were the parents of Thomas Nimmo. Given the tradition about the descent, it is plausible that they were James Nimmo, a 'wright' of Leith, and, Heriot (or Harriet) Anderson. Her father was a brewer, Daniel Anderson, and her mother was a Margaret Nicolson.<BR/><BR/>James Nimmo could have been one of the surviving sons of James Nimmo, (1686-1770), who married Mary Erskine in 1720. If so, this was the link which takes our ancestry back to Robert the Bruce.<BR/>Other obvious links to James and Mary are lacking, but in those times Scottish people were traversing the globe: India, Canada, America; and of course England, where the Registration did not start until 1837. We have these older records thanks to Scotland's People.<BR/>James Nimmo, the merchant and Bailie of Edinburgh who married Mary Erskine the daughter of Lord Cardross, is said to have died a bankrupt. It is for that reason that it seems believable that his son could have had to pursue manual work for a living.<BR/>There is much speculation here of course, and I would be grateful to hear from anyone descended from any of these people, or who could otherwise shed any light on the story.Snatch51https://www.blogger.com/profile/10892372914963273478noreply@blogger.com