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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Renfrewshire => Topic started by: weemary on Friday 12 August 11 13:30 BST (UK)
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aka - as the poor house and asylum in Greenock - see link below
http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/ac12.html
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Unfortunately they only hold the records relating to the asylum part of the institution. I've spoken to Alistair Tough who is in charge of the collection. The poorhouse records have all been destroyed which is really quite criminal. Shame on Greenock for wiping out the history of the poor!
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Shame on Greenock for wiping out the history of the poor![/quote ::)
Not Greenock's fault - who ever held the(original) records is at fault :'(
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That's who I was referring to Mary, I don't think I meant the people of Greenock were all personally responsible for wiping out the records!....wouldn't really make much sense would it?
At the end of the day, the Greenock council or the Greenock archive services should have ensured the survival of such important historical data. That's who I'm aiming my comment at.
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The local poor records may well still exist in storage somewhere, so don't write them off yet unless proof is available that they were destroyed.
Smithston/Ravenscraig was a Canadian Navy base, HMCS Niobe, during WW2, so any records would have been put elsewhere during that period. Apart from the Poorhouse records, per se, they would contain a much more important source for family historians, the Poor Law Applications. These concerned people who mostly were never near a poorhouse. Have a look at the Paisley ones in Paisley Library, or the Lanarkshire ones in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, to see what I'm talking about.
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thanks for that info when i last asked the watt libary if anything survived i was told no chrissey