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Title: Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow
Post by: Tillymum on Tuesday 09 September 08 23:08 BST (UK)

Please could someone help me out. I have a relatives naval discharge papers and they state that his address was:-
c/o Mrs. Patten, 69 Bouverie St, Port Glasgow. My relative joined the Royal Navy in May 1913 at the age of 19 years, however - I have been searching for info about him for a long time (possibly in the wrong places). The records state that his father was John Wilson, Coleraine, Co. Derry, N. Ireland.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Angela

Title: Re: Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 09 September 08 23:20 BST (UK)

Hello again, Angela.
Don't know anything about Mrs. Patten but I have seen Bouverie St. mentioned before- it seems a lot of people from Aghadowey/Coleraine area lived on that street- perhaps that's why George Wilson gave that address?

Title: Re: Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow
Post by: Tillymum on Tuesday 09 September 08 23:57 BST (UK)

Hello there, nice to hear from you. This George Wilson is a real mystery, either there are two of them with similar details, or some of the details we have are wrong or another theory is that his father went over to England, before he married Lizzie Dysart, had a quick fling, fathered George (who was brought up in Bridgnorth) and then went back to Coleraine to start another family. Goodness knows - and they say WE live in an age of promiscuity!!!! Did you notice that both times John Wilson was married, there was always a child already on the way?

Title: Re: Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow
Post by: aghadowey on Wednesday 10 September 08 00:03 BST (UK)

As my grandmother used to say 'the first child comes any time but the others take 9 months.'

Title: Re: Bouverie Street, Port Glasgow
Post by: Tillymum on Wednesday 10 September 08 00:09 BST (UK)

Aint that the truth?