Looking for Kidd's in the Glascow Valley

[Winnoch]

Hey all,
I am going on a trip this spring to Edinburgh and I am interesting in looking for some long lost relativesin Glascow when I go to Scotland. My family name is Kidd, my great, great grandfather Andrew Kidd lived in a tiny villed known as Loch Winnoch in the Glascow Valley during the mid-1800's roughly between 1830-1860 before coming to the United States and settling in Troy, NY at as a forman at the Troy Iron Works. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the remaining Kidd family in the Glascow Valley and/or anything about the location of Loch Winnoch in the Glascow Valley. If it helps any, the clan name was Campbell, MacArthur sept.

Thanks,
Morgan

[ScabbyDouglas]

First off, you'll find it easier to locate things if you remember that the city is known as GlasGow, (usually pronounced GLAZ-GO, not GLASS-COW). There isn't any geographical feature that is normally known as the Glasgow Valley (as far as I am aware - although I will defer to superior knowledge). Glasgow is on the River Clyde, and there is a geographical area known as the Clyde Valley, which according to various websites, Lochwinnoch is in.
It's one word: Lochwinnoch.
Lochwinnoch is a village in Renfrewshire.
There is a village website here:

http://www.lochwinnoch.info

There is a Lochwinnoch discussion forum on the site. If you were interested in seeing whether there were any Kidds still in the area, you could post an enquiry there I'd imagine.... ahhh. I see you've already got there.