Re: William Cadzow & Euphemia Brash

Their daughter, Helen Burns Cadzow, was my great great grandmother. She married James Aberdein Taylor and my Grandmother was their eldest child, Euphemia. She died when I was 21. I knew some of the siblings and Taylor/Campbell cousins as well.

James Taylor was a brass founder (I have a number of pieces of his work) and worked on Clydeside as well as being sent by the Ministry of Overseas Development to Bilbao (Dicierto) to assist the spanish shipbuilding industry in its infancy. The whole family lived out there until my grandmother was 18 when they returned to Glasgow and initially stayed in the Botanic and Zoological Gardens at Calder Park with my great-great-great grandfather who was curator there. I have some lovely photos of the family in the grounds riding in a horse and carriage after their return. Also one of the curator with a guanaco, or alpaca. Interesting, as I breed alpcas!

Uncle Willie, my great uncle, was a ship's engineer in the south seas all his working life and I also have a wonderful album of photos he took in China around the turn of the century. His wife died in the great flu epidemic of 1917-18. Aunt Tizzie (Elizabeth)lived in a flat overlooking Rangers Football grounds and used to lament that there were all those thousands of men and she couldn't get one!

Lots more snippets of information if anyone is interested. Ask me specific questions and I shall answer if I can.