Taken Circa 1890 Portobello Scotland, my great-grandfather, Lauchlan John Dempster born 1863 and my grandfather, also Lauchlan John born 1884. The Accordian is still in the family.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
I am a babyboomer looking for her ancestry. Regret not having written down all the stories my grandmother told me years ago. Have found many names to search from Midlothian Scotland. Dempster, Mills, Lindsay, Kemp, Aitken, Syme, Laing,
Billson, Gibson, Cowie, Thompson, Dickson, Mackay, Baird, Marshall.