John Steel

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a Cotton Handloom Weaver in 1841.

• He appeared on the census in 1841 in Waterside Row, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 30) living with wife Isabella and children Isabella (2) and Betty (2m).

• He worked as a Cotton Handloom Weaver in 1851.

• He appeared on the census in 1851 in Townhead, Cumming's Land, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 44) living with his wife Isabel (35) and children Margaret (15, cotton handloom weaver), Isabel (12), Betty (10), Jean (8), George (6), Archibald (4), Agnes (2) and Janet (3m).

• He worked as a Cotton Handloom Weaver in Sep 1855.

• He worked as a Silk and Cotton Handloom Weaver in 1861.

• He appeared on the census in 1861 in North Town End, East Strathaven, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire. Recored (aged 55) living with his wife Isabella (45) and children George (16), Archibald (14), Agnes (12), John (7) and Isabella (5) in a house with 2 windowed rooms.

• He worked as a Silk and Cotton Handloom Weaver in Feb 1870.

• He was ill with heart disease from 1869 to 1870.

John married Isabella Cumming, daughter of John Cumming and Margaret Fleming. (Isabella Cumming was born in 1815 in Waterside Street, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland, christened on 7 May 1815 in Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland and died on 1 Mar 1903 in Westquarter, Glassford, Lanarkshire, Scotland.) The cause of her death was Old Age. Indefinite.