Continuing west to Paisley, the building where their ancestors lived in Queen Street had been demolished and replaced by modern apartments but the other side of the street retains much of its older character with the Bethany Hall built in the Victorian era, a row of nineteenth century houses and then the eighteenth century weaver's cottage where the poet Robert Tannahill lived from early infancy until his death in 1810.

A closer look at Tannahill's Cottage. The original thatched roof has been replaced by slates.

There is an 1878 datestone on 8 Broomlands Street, Paisley, so this would have been a new building at the time of the 1881 census when Joyce and Madelyn's great-grandparents are listed in census records as living in one of the flats in this tenement.

We went to the Watermill Hotel for lunch. It is a converted seventeenth century flour mill.

Dining in the Watermill Hotel

Cementing relations between Scotland and the United States of America.
Wearing my USA semi-trad Hunting MacLeod. Joyce and Madelyn mentioned that one of their male relatives had recently received his first kilt which he is very excited about, I wonder if he has posted on this forum.
More pics to follow.