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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Louisa_ann on Saturday 23 July 16 14:20 BST (UK)
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Hi All,
Anyone know what cemetery served Rose Street Glasgow in early 1900. ?
I am looking for a McKeown grave.
Any help would be great.
LA
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A lot would depend on their faith ...
The one that springs immediately to mind is the Western Necropolis, however it is never as easy as Person A lived at Place B and is therefore buried at Place C. Many other factors need to be considered e.g.
1) Faith - unfortunately the religion one followed in life affected the resting place in death
2) Family Connections - although a person may have lived in a certain area the family may have connections to another
3) Who arranged the funeral - if perhaps the person died in poverty the Council or Poor Board may have arranged the funeral
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Thank you very much for your help. As she was christened into Church of England and married in same I expect her to remained in this faith . She died in hospital and is registered by her son.
I will consider your topics in my continued search.
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The Western Necropolis remains a fair contender for the North and west side of the City around that time.
As far as I'm aware there are no Episcopalian only cemeteries and by 1900 most, if not all of the City Churches that had burial grounds no longer operated them. The problem is that the family at the time (if they arranged the funeral) would have faced the option of a non denominational cemetery such as the Western or possibly an RC only cemetery. The nearest of these would have been St Kentigern next to the Western Necropolis.
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Thank you once again . As the family were living in a house shared by five other families ,I am now wondering if there was help with the funeral expenses when the husband /father died in 1900. LA
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Which Rose Street was it? There was one on the South Side (Gorbals - Hutchesontown) and the closest to there was the Southern Necropolis on Caledonia Road, just a few streets away.
When you say "5 other families" perhaps you don't realise that each tenement had one house number, no matter how many houses there were in each one.
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Thank you for your post.I had realised these were Tenements when I looked in 1901 Census.
The address in 1901 census gives address as 174 Rose Street Hutchestown .The Parish is recordered as St. Bernard's. I didn't realise there was another Rose Street.
LA
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This is the "South Side" Rose St and the nearest burial ground would have been the Southern Necropolis. It later had it's name changed to Florence St and Scotland's first-ever world champion boxer, the great Benny Lynch, was born at number 17.
Another great was born at number 71 Rose St - wee Maggie Sinclair, my granny. She was mostly famous for her Scotch broth and going down to the Bookie's in her carpet slippers!
So your ancestor is in good company.
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Thank you . Good to know they had great neighbours . :)
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The Hutchesontown bit makes quite a difference .... As Lodger says the nearest non denominational Cemetery was the Southern Necropolis (and possibly the most likely)
http://www.southernnecropolis.com/
Given your ancestors faith it is also possible that she may have attended the nearest Episcopalian Church - St Andrews by the Green http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA01029 which is a relatively short walk from that Rose Street. Although there was a Church of Scotland Parish Church and a UF Church just around the corner (both Presbyterian).
My lot came from Thistle Street nearby.
http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/glasgow-in-the-1970s-last-days-of-the-old-gorbals__o_t__t_1236.html
some later photographs of the area (1960's to 1970's)
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Jist put me in the mood for a plate o soup! ;D
Skoosh.
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Thank you for the links .The photographs are fantastic.
Have a lovely day LA
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Thanks for the Gorbals link Falkyrn. The photos are wonderful - very atmospheric, the buildings amazing - it's so sad that so many have been demolished. :'(
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I have identified 2 great aunts who were both born at 71 Rose Street in Hutchesontown although their family address was 41 Commercial Rd in Hutchesontown(where 5 other siblings were all born and my great aunts later lived). Was 71 Rose Street a hospital or where a midwife possibly lived? I discovered that 71 Rose Street was one of the places that bubonic plague broke out in August 1900. A fish hawker Mrs Bogie and her daughter fell ill with it. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi Turner,
71 Rose Street was a tenement building, my great-grandparents lived there for a couple of years in the 1880s. They then moved to South Shamrock Street and by 1900, when the plague arrived, poverty, not the plague had left my granny an orphan at the age of fourteen. Both her parents and all her 7 siblings had died. "The good old days" that Maggie Thatcher wanted us to go back to!
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A hard, hard time to be alive unless you had money behind you. My grandfather, born in 1911 in Commercial Rd, had 10 siblings, only he and his brother Tommy and sister Annie lived beyond 16. TB, pneumonia and whooping cough all took their toll in a 2 room flat.
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A hard, hard time to be alive unless you had money behind you. My grandfather, born in 1911 in Commercial Rd, had 10 siblings, only he and his brother Tommy and sister Annie lived beyond 16. TB, pneumonia and whooping cough all took their toll in a 2 room flat.
Yes, all the children in one bed, all coughing into each other's face. Some didn't even have the luxury of a 2-roomed flat. Many, including some of my own family, lived in one room, a"kitchen" or "single-end" as they were known. One communal toilet on the half stair for about 5 - 8 families, big families!