Some Pauls of Glasgow and their descendants

6 SOME PAULS OF GLASGOW
Registration, no doubt, was not so strictly enforced
then as it is now, but one would certainly have ex-
pected that his name would appear along with his
brothers and sisters. Whatever may be the actual facts
of the case, we know that Robert Paul became a
gardener. Here again we meet with another difficulty.
In the records of the Incorporation of Gardeners Robert
Paul, 'son of William Paul, tanner,' is said to have
been admitted 5 August 1742, being apprenticed to
William Smith: there was a William Paul, a tanner,
who died 20 December 1785, confirmation of his
testament being given to his widow Janet Brock,
the cautioner being Robert Paul, gardener, Glasgow.
William, the tanner, and his wife appear in the
Birth Register of Glasgow as the parents of several
daughters, the first being born in 1729, but no son is
mentioned. But there is another Robert Paul who
entered the Incorporation of Gardeners on 6 March 1747.
Unfortunately his parentage is not given, but I am
inclined to believe that this Robert was the progenitor
of the family. There is still another complication in
the matter, as in the ' Craft Genealogies,' appended to
the printed records of the Incorporation of Gardeners,
Mr. Archibald Keir Murray, who is undoubtedly a
descendant of my great-grandfather, is made to be the
great-grandson of a Robert Paul who did not enter the
Incorporation till 1770, and he is said to be the son of
James Paul who entered only six years before, in 1764.
But this, I think, is a mistake.
Assuming, therefore, that our progenitor was the
Robert Paul of unknown parentage who entered the
Incorporation of Gardeners in 1747, it is pretty certain
that he was the Robert Paul, gardener, who died
16 March 1789. He owned property in the Rottenrow,
Glasgow, which is still in the possession of his descend-