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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Baird on Sunday 23 December 07 14:49 GMT (UK)
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1851 census for Crosshill in Old Monkland has an ancestor living at the address of what looks like Tullyfrieze . Name William McPherson occupation Coal Miner. Does anyone know where this was?
Many thanks,
Baird Ferguson
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Hi Baird, on Ancestry te address is given as West Merryston, parish of Old Monkland. Hope that helps?
Cav
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Many Thanks for that,
Baird
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The Merryston area of Coatbridge is near the present day Time Capsule Leisure Centre
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Merryston Square was in Coatbridge, around Blairhill St/Dundyvan Road/Bank St.
West Merryston was not in the town of coatbridge, it was about 3 or 4 miles away, between Baillieston and old Easterhouse, along Swinton Road, an area now full of new houses. Try this link
http://groups.msn.com/Bailliestonnet/holewestmaryston.msnw
Lodger.
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The West Marystone (Merryston), I presume you are talking about is not in Coatbridge. It's was/is the area surrounding what is now Easterhouse Railway Station near to Baillieston beside the Monkland Canal.
The following is a link to a local Baillieston site on which there's quite a bit of history on that area.
http://groups.msn.com/Bailliestonnet/mc1.msnw
Crosshill is also part of Baillieston. If you go to Multimap and key in NS682639, that will take you to 'today's' exact location. As cavvytri said, it was in the parish of Old Monkland which covered a pretty big area.
Also, if you go to: http://www.old-maps.co.uk, and key in Baillieston, there is an 1864 map which shows Crosshill and Maryston. To find Maryston, just keep clicking up and it will eventually appear at the extreme right of the window. The titles Maryston, Marystown and Merryston have changed back and forwards over the years.
I have Lair Records and MI's for both churchyards in Baillieston, Crosshill and St. John's (Episcopalian) but the only McPhersons I can find are in St. John's and are a Duncan (died 12th May 1886 aged 76) & Mary Thom McPherson (nee Adam) his wife who died 25th October 1877 aged 55. According to the MI, Duncan was a Portioner from Whifflet in Coatbridge.
Great minds Lodger!! ;D You beat me to it with the lnk to baillieston.net!
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Hello Baird. Nice to meet you.
I came across your post, and am so glad that I did. My ggg grandfather, John Pender was a canal boatman, and I have him as living at West Merryston 1851.
I did wonder where the canal might have been. Thanks to one of the links that had been added to your thread, I was able to have a look, and found a picture of the canal at West Merryston.
Thanks again for posting your thread.
Best wishes for the New Year.
Gail
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Hi Baird, on Ancestry te address is given as West Merryston, parish of Old Monkland. Hope that helps?
Cav
Apologies for dragging an old thread up but I think I'd dispute the above statement. According to the enumerator's schedule of the 1841 census, Tullyfrieze - which wasn't so much a distinctive place as a property owner's name - was contained within;
"So much of the Parish lies at Baillieston Toll, Camp and Faulds"
This Tullyfrieze was probably a building in the present Camp Road, then known as the Colliery Road, at that time that area would not have been strictly part of the village of Baillieston Toll.
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Hi Baird,
I have just come across my ancestor's census for 1841 and have a "Andrew Baird" on the same page as my Clydesdale. I have ancestors from County Tyrone as well (O'Neill's). Just random similarities :)