Caroline Dale Owen
His daughter Caroline married Robert Owen - a Welsh entrepreneur of a similar background to Dale. Part of the marriage settlement included selling the New Lanark Mills, village and lands - for £60,000 repayable over 20 years - to a partnership including Owen. His daughter Mary Dale married James Haldane Stewart, an Anglican clergyman related to the Stewarts of Appin.
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