| Ref No | MS 3219/3/3/7/1/3 |
| Finding Number | MS 3219/3/124/3 |
| Title | Memorandum |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1719 |
| Description | Docket by James Watt jr. reads 'Register of Birth & Baptism. NB. Doubtful whether this relates to my grandfather as my father states him to have been born in 1698. It is in my grandfather's handwriting & was found in his pocket book for 1773'. Jas. Watt. Feby. 1820.'
[This has information extracted from the records of the Kirk Sessions of Greenock by the Session Clerk, 26 August 1719, regarding the birth on 28 January 1699 and baptism on 5 February 1699 of an unnamed person]. |
| Extent | 1 |
| Format | Item |
| Related Material | A single receipt from 1744 was discovered at Doldowlod in 2002 and donated to the City Archives. It is listed in the ‘Later additions to the papers of James Watt and Family’ part of the MS 3219 catalogue.
The Watt and Muirhead papers were microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications as part of Industrial Revolution: A Documentary History. ‘Muirhead I’ was published in Series One: part 2 in 1993; ‘Muirhead II-IV’ in Series One: parts 6 and 8, in 1997; and the ‘James Watt Papers’ in Series Three, in 1999. All the microfilms are available in Birmingham City Archives. |
| Physical Description | Papers and correspondence |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Three Generations of Watts. Extracts from the Doldowlod Papers, by Julian Gibson-Watt (1995), has a section on the trading correspondence of James Watt of Greenock and on the Finlay & Cation papers. [B&W Pamphlets G/7] |