William Fleming

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. WILLIAM FLEMING was born in Avondale about 1823. William's parentage is not known for certain, but it is probable that he is a son of Hugh Fleming and Mary Craig and that he was thus born on the 17th of January 1824. William and Isabella were married in Avondale on the 20th of August 1846. (Transcribed from OPR) William and Isabella are at Templeland Farm, Avondale, on the 1851 census (the name of the farm is written as Templing). William is not at Templeland on the 1861 census - Isabella is given as head of the family, although her status is given as married. Isabella is at Templeland on the 1881 census and at Overhouse Farm, Avondale, on the 1891 and 1901 census - this was her son Hugh's farm, although another son, William, is there as well in 1891. A transcription of the 1851 census entry for the Flemings can be found here <1851_Fleming.htm>.

William married Isabella Morrison, daughter of John Morrison and Janet Lindsay, on 20 Aug 1846 in Avondale, Lanarkshire Scotland. (Isabella Morrison was born in 1823 in Avondale, Lanarkshire Scotland and died on 4 Sep 1910 in Bankend Farm, Avondale Scotland.)