| 1. | John Gairdner, Justice of the Peace, Galway was born in 1843 in Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died about 1909 in Ireland. Other Events and Attributes:
- _UID: 9557B103D41547D7BF9C8F3BD56A17426429
- Census-Household Member: 1851, Mearns, Upper Ward, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Scotland - Cartsbridge
- Residence-Occupant: 1851, Mearns, Upper Ward, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Cartsbridge
- Directory: 1868, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland; Index to the Magistrates: Gairdner, John, Galway, Ballinasloe
- Directory: 1910, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Connacht, Ireland; County Directory: Gairdner, John, Lisbeg, Ballinasloe
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Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Residence-Occupant:
Role: Occupant
History Busby, East Renfrewshire
As a settlement, Busby dates back at least 700 years. Historically, the village was called Bushby. Its modern origins may be dated to several significant changes in the 1780s.
The first big change was in the landscape. Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns. This route forded the River Cart near Newford.
This original village or fermtoun was in the area of the present Busby railway station. For centuries the occupants had worked the surrounding land from this central settlement. However, by the 1780s the landowner was in process of sweeping away the old fermtoun. The occupants were moved to the newly established farmsteads of Easter Busby, Wester Busby, Busbyside and Ryat. Busby as a village name could have disappeared, had it not been for events on the opposite side of the River Cart.
Cotton
The second big change started in 1780 with the founding of Busby's first cotton mill. This was at Newmill, on Cartsbridge lands on the opposite side of the River Cart. Busby and Newmill each had several earlier mills. Busby itself had Busby Meal Mill at the end of Field Road (founded before 1300), and Busby Waulk Mill in the Glen. Newmill also had two mills, situated together at the waterfall. The first was another early Meal Mill and the second a more recent Lint Mill. However, the cotton mill built in 1780 was on a completely different scale to the old rural mills. It attracted many families to settle in the area, and the centre of Busby swung from the old declining fermtoun on the Lanarkshire side of the River Cart, to Newmill on the Renfrewshire side.
A second Cotton Mill followed in 1790, then a Bleachfield and Printworks six years later. These industries provided the employment for the development of the modern village of Busby.
Paisley to East Kilbride road
The third major change in Busby in the 1780s was a new road from Paisley to East Kilbride, which went through the village. The first Busby Bridge was built on this route c.1785, and replaced an earlier ford above the waterfall. The new road changed the focus from the old Carmunnock? Mearns road to the Paisley? East Kilbride road.
Busby was never the perfect site for building a village, but developed due to the availability of water power on the River Cart. From the 1780s the village became centred on a hilly part of Cartsbridge Farm, originally known as "The Bank". Busby's Main Street was built on a very steep hill (although steep hills are very common in the area), and the road through to what is now Clarkston's town centre was built along a fragile slope which has collapsed several times since.
Directory:
Directory was being printed at the time of his death
Died:
FMP - 1909 Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019
Gairdner
John of Auchans House Irving Ayrshire died 21 September 1908 at Croghan Birr Kings county Ireland.
Confirmation of David Cowan Gairdner bank agent, Charles Dalyrymple Gairdner chartered accountant, Charles Arthur Gairdner and James Macnair Gairdner stockbroker.
Sealed London 5 January (1909)
need to check this further
John married Barbara Thomson Pollock on 4 Jul 1859 in Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Barbara (daughter of Allan Pollok, of Lismany (Lismay), Galway, Ireland and Margaret Pollock) was born on 3 Aug 1840 in Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; was christened on 26 Aug 1840 in Mearns Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 13 Apr 1900 in Lisberg House, County Galway, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Agnes Mary Gairdner
 was born on 13 Jun 1861 in Dundonald Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland; and died.
- 3. Charles Arthur Gairdner was born on 15 Oct 1865 in Laurencetown, Galway, Ireland; died in Oct-Dec 1927 in Fulham District, London, England.
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1843 - Abt 1909 (66 years)
