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Title: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: mcghee67 on Thursday 13 November 08 08:41 GMT (UK)
Can anybody make out the address of Pat Monaghan it is the one he put down when registering his mothers death

Thanks Jane
Title: Re: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: Ann Baker on Thursday 13 November 08 08:48 GMT (UK)
Hi Jane

I think is 70 Livingston St, Bothwell

Ann
Title: Re: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: mcghee67 on Thursday 13 November 08 08:53 GMT (UK)
Thankyou very much Ann its much appreciated

Kind regards Jane
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Post by: Isles on Thursday 13 November 08 09:14 GMT (UK)
Hi Jane and Ann.  It looks more like Addiewell which is in West Calder.
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Post by: caroclay on Thursday 13 November 08 09:20 GMT (UK)
it says addiewell
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Post by: claireandsi on Thursday 13 November 08 09:21 GMT (UK)
If it helps, I also think it says 70 Livingston Street, Addiewell

Claire
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Post by: Ann Baker on Thursday 13 November 08 09:22 GMT (UK)
lol That'll teach me not to put me specs on and use my magnifying glass. Addiewell indeed tis!

Thanks Specsavers! :-[

Ann
Title: Re: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: mcghee67 on Thursday 13 November 08 09:29 GMT (UK)
Hi Lassies,

Thanks for having a look yer aw dead brilliant, just a wee bit of scottish twang fer ye, joking aside I looked Addiewell can't find livingston st but that doesn't mean it didn't exist probably worked down the mines did Pat Monaghan, My dad didn't know that his gran had more family living here only thought she had her brother Christopher, turns out she had Pat, John, James and mum and dad going to st Pats Craignuek for awee look through the records will keep you all posted on my finds.

Kind regards Jane ;) ;)
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Post by: rosie02 on Saturday 22 November 08 00:28 GMT (UK)
There was a Livingston Street in Addiewell in the early 1900s (I don't know how long it existed before and after this time).  I am sure the houses there were for the workers at Addiewell oilworks.
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Post by: tontolina on Thursday 12 February 09 23:41 GMT (UK)
The address is definitely Addiwell. Strange thing is my Grandmother had a relative in Addiwell that I used to visit. Grandmother was Mary Perkins (nee Monaghan) lived in Carfin.

Regards Mary, Canada
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Post by: charlotteCH on Friday 13 February 09 02:01 GMT (UK)
70 Livinstone St, Addiwell.

charlotte
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Post by: Ann Baker on Friday 13 February 09 02:42 GMT (UK)
Hi Jane

Think you need to mark this as completed as we have established address? :D

Ann
Title: Re: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: mcghee67 on Friday 13 February 09 06:45 GMT (UK)
Not quite yet Ann,

Hi Mary from Canada,

Your gran was my Great grans Bridget Monaghan sister!!!!
I am so pleased you have replyed to this message.  Please please get in touch
My mum and dad still stay in Carfin and they were speaking to Bill Perkins last week.

Look forward to hearing from you

Jane :)
Title: Re: Can anybody make out this address
Post by: kenneth.h on Friday 25 December 15 01:37 GMT (UK)
Mcghee, my grandfather, Patrick Molloy lived in Livingston Street, Addiewell. He came from Crossmolina, Country Sligo, Ireland after WW1. There was an influx of workers from Ireland, Poland and the Baltics to work in the shale oil industry centred around West Lothian at that time. I think his brother, Tim Molloy may also have come over to Scotland from Ireland at the same time. Livingston Street was named after the explorer, David Livingston who was a friend of the family who owned to the shale industry in the area. The tenaments have been demolished now. As a child, I recall seeing them and I remember seeing grainy footage of a bonfire in Livingston Street celebrating the end of WW2 - my mother told me she remembered it. There are still many Molloy's living in and around the West Lothian area. I don't know if my grandfather lived at 70, Livingston Street but it seems very coincidental - same name, same street! 
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Post by: sancti on Saturday 26 December 15 12:39 GMT (UK)
There is still a Livingstone Street in Addiewell today.

On the 1914 map it stopped at Addiewell Farm
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Post by: maria Reid on Wednesday 06 January 16 14:38 GMT (UK)
Not Bothwell but Addiewell. Its in West Lothian.