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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Pricey4848 on Thursday 16 September 10 21:19 BST (UK)
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Is there an online method of researching voters or similar citizens address index to find out who / where somebody was living in Glasgow between 1912 - 1922ish?? Thanks Im looking for Robert George Heron B c1874 Pollok estate ( Pollok House) Glasgow I know he was living Thistle Street in the Gorbals in 1912....
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The 1913 Valuation rolls are online at http://www.theglasgowstory.com/
However they are are indexed by street name so you really need to know the address before starting.
Other valuation rolls and voters rolls are only currently available offline.
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I'm hunting on there for an address which is shown on other info as Enumeration District 91 but I don't know the Ward No.
I have the address but can't find it on the search - Victoria Cottage Spiers Wharf North which was on the Old Basin of the Forth and Clyde Canal which came under Hamilton Hill reg District. I've searched under Hamilton Hill/Spiers Wharf North/Old Basin but no joy.
Any ideas what to do next? :-\
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From the 1881 census, Victoria Cottage is listed as:
Enumeration District 91
Hamilton Hill
Hamilton Hill Possil Rd
Old Basin House Spiers Wharf North
Possil Rd
Possil Road (Back Land)
Victoria Cottage Spiers Wharf North
From the Glasgow Valuation Rolls for 1913-14, Possil Road. Old Basin, Spiers Wharf (south), Hamilton Hill etc. all show under Ward 17.
Spiers Wharf North shows under Ward 16. Like you though, can't see Victoria Cottage :-\
Monica
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Thanks Monica I'll have another search - it must be somewhere I have pics of it! ;D
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Do you have a name at that address that you could use to check? Just thinking that on the Spiers Wharf North listing on www.theglasgowstory.com/valsearch.php, there are two houses showing as opposed to commercial buildings.
Monica
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I've found it! ;D My gt grandfather Robert C Kerr Harbourmaster. Wasn't listed as Victoria Cottage on there though. :-\
It was in Hamiltonhill/Firhill etc Ward 17 2nd from the top on Page 259. Delighted I've found that, thanks for your help. ;D
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That's great! Fantastic resource isn't, the Glasgow Valuation Rolls :)
Monica
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Robert C Kerr, Harbour Master also shows here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/1927names371.jpg in 1927. Different address again I think!
Monica
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I was delighted to get the 1913/14 entry because sadly my gt grandmother Mary Anne (Forsythe) Kerr died of tubercular meningitis in 1913.
Yup! that's him in 1927 it says Dundas House but was actually 158 North Spiers Wharf where I was born. ;D Dundas House was 50 yards round the corner, the house built by/for Ann Dundas. Methinks my gt grandfathers new wife had ideas above her station! :P
He had remarried by 1927 (it split the family) he wasn't married long before he died in 1936 aged 76 (silly old fool!) nowt like an old fool is there? ;D Of course after his death she took off with all the family's keepsakes from their mother and destroyed most of the paperwork! :'(
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Life, ehhh :)
Sad second wife took off with all the family docs which should have been distributed through the family :-\
Monica
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So you were born at Collector's/Bridge Keeper House www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702 ;)
Monica
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Correct! Better view showing the corner of Ann Dundas's Dundas House far left :P ;D
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702
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How lucky to have your birth home so well photographed ;D
Monica
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Even better this one which shows the .............. no not tram lines TRAIN tracks :D
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702
I think it must have been the last train along the line I saw while still at primary school. You wouldn't get that now with H&S!!
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The very beautiful "Dundas House" is the large house with the columns at the entrance.
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702
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See what you mean regarding aspirations :) Fab photos these aren't they. How much of these remain do you know?
Monica
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The distillery was turned into yuppy flats and the only building kept, renovated and I believe turned into an inn for the residents was Dundas House which has been erroneously logged as built as offices it wasn't!
Ann Dundas was *I think* the daughter of Revd Thomas Lawrence Dundas (3rd son of Thomas Dundas 1st Baron Dundas of Aske).
http://thepeerage.com/p4712.htm
As the family had hugely backed the building of the Forth and Clyde Canal they more or less owned Port Dundas. All the streets and roads leading to Port Dundas were named after the family Ann St/Port Dundas/Port Dundas Road etc.
I believe they had properties along the length of the canal. Certainly the canal cut through their Estate at Kerse near Falkirk, which obviously gave them the upper hand! ;)
Very sad that our house was demolished, the last in Glasgow with no electricity at all ie gas lighting (including a water sealed chandelier in the dining room (no less!!) - now in the Peoples Palace, Glasgow Green along with pleasure boat tickets and other canal memorabilia donated by my gran). The house doesn't look big but it was huge, 7 rooms upstairs, 2 halls inner and outer, 18ft reception room/parlour, livingroom/kitchen plus scullery and laundry, indoor toilet and adjacent large bathroom and outside, 4 brick built outhouses. It was the harbour master house, next door and partly underneath, was the canal offices, partly above them the bridgekeepers flat and he also had a yard where he kept chickens!!
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You make it all come to life, even down to the chickens! Sounds like you had a happy childhood :)
Monica
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I was the middle child, a tomboy, happy but spent most of my time exploring by myself! Definitely always up to mischief though. ;D Used to exercise the racing greyhounds along the canal bank for a kennels along a bit. Mispent childhood I reckon. :P
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looking for info on the kenny family lived at 19,Hallside st H/town gorbals thank you.