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Hello Paul, would W. Bothwell St be classed as Anderston.  My ggm, nee Janet Kerr and her sister Christina Taylor lived there in 1881.  They seemed to move around Glasgow.

According to the census they were originally from Lochgilphead.  Father Robert, mother Margaret and a brother John.

Liz

Hello Sancti, he was listed on the 1911 Irish census as a Mechanic and the 1901 as an Engine Fitter.  He went back to Scotland sometime around 1917 until 1921 or 22 and then returned to Ireland, where my Aunt was born in 1922. 

On his father's Poor Relief application in January 1920 in Scotland, his details were given as born in Anderston, 41 and married with 5 children and was working at Armstrong & Main, Petershill Road, as a Labourer.

Not sure if it will help.

Thanks

Liz

Hello, just an update.  I got hold of the film from family search but it didn't show anything for a McKirdy on 15/12/1881, only a strange entry registered by a police officer, with no names or addresses or even the registrar's details.

The only thing I can think of is trying the maternity hospital records.  Can anyone tell me which hospital Anderston would have come under in 1881.

Thanks

I'm not sure where family search got the entry from Sancti but there is a definite birth date and area so I'm hoping the film will show the baptisimal records.

I've traced them back to School Lane in Largs Skoosh.  I haven't got an exact date for the ggggf but it was around 1770.  He died in 1846 aged 76.  The only entry about that time was twins born 1773, Alex and Margett to Robert McKirdy, no mother's name.  I think the Bute connection would kick in there but there are so many I wouldn't know where to start.

Thanks both

Hello Monica, I've been through most of the SP entries of births and deaths from 1877 to 1900 but can't find any children.

Janet died in Dublin in Dec 1897.  Her sister Christina died in 1919 in the Dublin Union Workhouse.  From the wording on the death cert it looks as if she wasn't there for long.  I am going to try to get the details as they may show the next of kin.

The family returned to Glasgow but not sure when but they were there in 1917 when twins were born.  I don't know if Alexr stayed in Ireland until Christina died.

Alex applied for poor relief in January 1920.  It shows he was living with Robert in Kennedy Street and Robert was 41, married and had five children.

If Robert was 41 in 1920 he would have been born in 1879, but the whole family seemed to gain or lose five years when it suited them.   Christina's son was definitely born in 1874, I found his registration.  I have tried to find him as both Kerr and Taylor but no luck there either so still guessing.

I don't know where to go from here.  I thought I had hit the nail on the head with the Family Search record.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.