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Owner/Managers and Paper Makers
Broomhouse & Chirnside Bridge Paper Mills, Berwickshire, Scotland
Business known as Young Trotter & Son
Thomas Trotter, Merchant & Burgess, Edinburgh (1724-1804) William Wilson, Shoemaker, Scotland
married 1749 Charlotte Knox (born 1728) married Helen Robertson
daughter of Dr. David Knox & Isobel Hepburn [*1] V
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Mary Trotter (1751/52-1822) Young Trotter, of Cruiksfield (1768-1841) Thomas Wilson (c.1784/86-1869)
married 1785 John Pitcairn of Pitcairns (1743-1824) married 1798 Jean/Jane Cranstoun (1769-1851) married 1804 Jane/Jean Forbes
son of John Pitcairn, Weaver & Burgess, Perth & daughter of George Cranstoun of Dewar & Harvieston & daughter of Matthew Forbes, Tailor, Dunse
Margaret/Mary Mair Anne Hay of Haystoun [*2] Paper Maker Broomhouse (1804 marriage)
Owner/Manager Broomhouse Paper Mill Owner/Manager Broomhouse Paper Mill Paper Maker Broomhouse (1841 Census)
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George Cranstoun Trotter (1801-1885) [*3] Charlotte Knox Trotter (1807-1836) William Wilson (c.1810-1887)
(never married & had no children) married 1830 Captain Stephen Slight (1797-1834) married 1836 Agnes Wigton (1814-1863)
Owner/Manager Broomhouse & Chirnside Bridge Paper Mills son of Lt. Commander George Slight daughter of William Wigton, Paper Maker & [*4]
(later George Cranstoun Trotter Cranstoun, of Dewar & Harvieston) V Agnes Bertram
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Major Robert Nicholson Slight, J.P. (1833-1908) Agnes Wilson (1838-1910)
married 1863 Mary Susan Rose (1844-1872) married 1868 William Amos Dand (1841-1903)
daughter of James Rose, W.S. & [*5] son of James Dand, Flax Mill Manager & 
Susan Brabazon Wight Beatrice Amos
Owner/Manager Chirnside Bridge Paper Mill Paper Maker Chirnside Bridge (1861 Census)
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Louise Alice Slight (1870-1952) V
married 1904 James Dand (1870-1951) <<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Notes:
[*1]  Dr. David Knox (born 1695) was a direct descendant of William Knox - the father of John Knox, Scottish Reformer (c.1505-1572).
[*2]  Anne Hay of Haystoun (died 1788) was a direct descendant of:
       (i) William de Haya/de la Haye, 1st Feudal Baron of Erroll (c.1153-1214) - the earliest recorded ancestor of the Clan Hay Family of Scotland.
       (ii) The earliest recorded ancestors of over 25 other Scottish Family Clans.
       (iii) the early Kings of Scotland, England, France and Spain.
[*3]  George Cranstoun Trotter (1801-1885) - changed his name when his elder brother Thomas passed away in 1848 - and he inherited the maternal estates of Dewar & Harvieston
       - he became styled as George Cranstoun Trotter Cranstoun, of Dewar & Harvieston.
[*4]  Further research is needed to identify whether William Wigton, Paper Maker - was a Paper Maker at Broomhouse and/or Chirnside Bridge Paper Mills. 
[*5]  James Rose, W.S. (1797-1864) was a direct descendant of:
       (i) Hugh Rose of Geddes & 1st of Kilravock (died c.1306) - the earliest recorded ancestor of the Clan Rose Family of Scotland.
       (ii) The earliest recorded ancestors of over 20 other Scottish Family Clans.
       (iii) The early Kings of Scotland and England.
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