Drunkie / Port of Menteith · Callander · Kilbarchan
John was baptised at Port of Menteith on 20 January 1795. The censuses later give his birthplace as Callander, Perthshire. He was not born in Kilbarchan, but far away in Perthshire; he must have met Janet Mitchell there and married her when she was 23 and he around 29. It is likely he was an ambitious lad, keen to learn silk hand-loom weaving.
Nine of them lived and worked in a cottage similar to the National Trust pair in Shuttle Street. In 1841 four children between 12 and 15 were already silk hand-loom weaver apprentices.
Weavers' cottages in Shuttle Street, Kilbarchan, where John and Janet brought up their family at number 12. John's loom was in the basement.Cartside, Kilbarchan. Their son Duncan died here in 1868; John and Janet spent their last years here. John died in 1877, aged 82.Port of Menteith, 20 January 1795: John, lawful son to Duncan Cameron and Grizal Kenedy in Drunkie.
