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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: paulsplace2009 on Monday 24 October 11 01:16 BST (UK)
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hey everyone
i have found my 4x great grandmother on the 1851 and 1861 census on ancestry
was hopeing for some help with addresses.....
1851 census - the address is down as "corsemill mar hurlet"
1861 census - the address is down as "waterside number3", civil parish "abbey landward.
can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks
Paul
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Can you please give us the census reference or the name and age of the person so we can look at the original please?
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hey ted
on the 1851 scottish census, her name is down as
Elis leitch, and her age is 46
roll number - CSSCT1851_126
on the 1861 census, her name is
eliz leitch, and her age is 56
roll number CSSCT1861_74
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Hi
Your best option would be to download the images from Scotlandspeople, as far as Ancestrys transcriptions are concerned someone with local knowledge might be able to interpret them for you but the originals would be your best det.
Andy
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This might help
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10050996
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Abbey Landward was a district in the SE corner of the parish part of the q. sacra parish of Levern.
Waterside #3 probably denotes a tenement.
For the exact location download the original census from SP and read the Header which will give the exact boundaries of the census that was taken.
The 1851 address you listed is just a placename but what Parish was it.
Don
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurlet
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I think the address you are after may lie along the road that runs from the Hurlet restaurant towards barhead which passes the Waterside Restaurant.
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thanks so much for all of your help everyone.
will let you know how i get on
paul
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Waterside and Hurlet were both small hamlets situated as described by Baird - I don't believe that tenements were ever built in either and Waterside #3 could simply refer to the third house in Waterside.... there is nothing left of either of them now other than their names in some of the businesses which have been set up.
Corsemill became known as Crossmill and is now a part of Barrhead
The Abbey Landward area was part of the Abbey Parish of Paisley which extended outwith the Burgh Boundaries and took in parts of what are now Barrhead and Nitshill (which includes Hurlet and Waterside)
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hi falkryn, thanks for this.
i may get some pictures from virtual mitchell maybe??
i havent found any of my ancestors dwelling intact as of yet!!lol
no buildings to visit......ha
thank you#
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Hi all
Just picking up on some old info again...
This is all really useful info on corsemill/hurlet
Do you think the mitchell might hold old photos of this area?
Cheers
Paul
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Hurlet Alum Works
http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Hurlet-Alum-Shale-Mine/alum.pdf
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hi Paul
You'd probably be unsuccessful at the Mitchell.
The area your enquiring about now comes under East Renfrewshire Council, who have their own archives, local history section, see this link for more info http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/archives
Hi all
Just picking up on some old info again...
This is all really useful info on corsemill/hurlet
Do you think the mitchell might hold old photos of this area?
Cheers
Paul
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go to this site www.meing53.weebly.com click pollok history scroll down to two photos of hurlet junction and another of a shop at hurlet rd in 1905.