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Renfrewshire / Re: port-glasgow old street names
« on: Friday 29 June 12 17:17 BST (UK)  »
There's no subsitute for looking before leaping, and now that I've looked I have to correct my last re Dockhead Close, etc.  Dockhead Close ran from somewhere about Louis' Chip Shop - not the Post Office - and Dardanelles Close between Louis' and John Wood Street.


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Renfrewshire / Re: port-glasgow old street names
« on: Sunday 24 June 12 15:33 BST (UK)  »
Further to my last .... Hunter's Close probably didn't come off Ropework Lane, only off Dockhead Street.  The opening was where John Wood Street joins present day Fore Street, about in the middle of JW street.  In the town, the present openings named Customhouse Lane are not too far away from where the ends of the actual lane were.  Dockhead Close ran off Dockhead Street parallel to Customhouse Lane, from about where the Post Office is.  It turned at right angles and opened into Customhouse Lane about halfway along.  Dardanelles Close went off Dockhead Street a few yards further along from Dockhead Close, near where the corner of John Wood Street is,  and zig-zagged back a good way.  John Wood Street covers most of it and Hunter's Close.  Wood Lane, if anyone's looking for it, came off Customhouse Lane just along from the Dockhead Close opening, and ran to King Street.

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Renfrewshire / Re: poor house and asylum records for Greenock
« on: Sunday 24 June 12 12:26 BST (UK)  »
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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Renfrewshire / Re: port-glasgow old street names
« on: Friday 22 June 12 21:29 BST (UK)  »
Dardanelles Close, Hunter's Close and Dockhead Close all were in the area bounded by Customhouse Lane, Ropework Lane and Barr's Braefoot. They are not named on the 1855 or 1897 maps, probably too narrow.  See the preambles to Books 6 and 7 of the 1891 census.  The jury's still out on Dardanelles and Dockhead, but Hunter's Close ran off Ropework Lane.

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