A Message from William Cross, FSA Scot
Paisley is one of Scotland's old mill towns ( indeed, it's now a City).
The 10th November 2010 marked the 200th anniversary of this most dreadful disaster on the last day of the Paisley Martinmas Fair, when many men women and many young children died in a panic to get on and off the Canal Boat, The Countess of Eglinton.
This site is compiled as a small memory to those who died and those who lost loved ones.
The final death toll was 85. The names of those who perished, together with the names of those who were on the deck of the Countess of Eglinton when she heeled, on 10 November 1810, will be published in the Renfrewshire Family History Journal, No 24, in February 2011.
William Cross, FSA Scot is a writer and researcher based in Newport, South Wales. For further information contact him by e-mail at williecross@aol.com.
William Cross is the author of a series of books on Accidents and Disasters in Scotland in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
With thanks to Angela Evans for her help in transcribing the names information about Paisley Canal Boat Disaster.
