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One thing - only around 10% of thioe with phones in Ireland actially have a listing shown. The bulk of them are all ex-directory... but you might be lucky All the best!

Strange - I had posted a reply debunking the 'Riggs/Tithe' myth and it's disappeared. There's no doubt, Bishopbriggs evolved from Bishops Bridge and appears in maps of the period from several sources - including, and thanks for that (!) the birth record.  Cadder was the prime location, with everything hanging from that... Bishop Bridge being simply a locality within Cadder district, rather than the other way around!  But I'm still no further in defining WHEN the corruption took place, the 1850's seems to be when it all went wrong, and long before the 'Villa Mansions' of railway fame were built in the area. (The owners of the villas got free railway travel).

I thought I was up and running with mine, but it went pear-shaped. I was able to trace back to a Marriage Certificate of a now-defunct church (St Mark's - Dublin). Fortunately, as a Church of Ireland establishment, when the parish is amalgamated, all the records go to the CoI Library which is in Churchtown (how appropriate!) Dublin.  Because I had identified St Marks as the marriage location, I was hoping that I'd find my Gt-Gt-Gndmothers Baptismal Record, as her hubby was Scottish, is seemed reasonable to assume it was her 'home' parish.  The library gave me access to the original Register used between 1830-1860 and I ploughed through it, but even though the writing was faded in places, there was no bith record in that period for that Parish, and short of going through every equivalent book, I'm effectively stuffed.

Interestingly though, I noted a similar family surname, where 5 children to the same couple registered the birth's of 4 girls and a boy. Their name was clearly Smith, but the child's surname was shown variously as Smyth and Smith, even when the baptism was done by the SAME clergyman! 

The Glasgow addresses are fairly spread about and in a mix of areas

Bath Street addresses are quite far apart in the street with 51 being nearer the city centre its possible that these were offices/homes

21 Hope street is at the bottom end of the street and while it is now primarily a business address at that time it would have been a tenement building
(the same goes for 19 Howard Street)

The other possibility is that some of these could have been meeting houses for different groups (e.g. Salvation Army) 

Have to disagree slightly. None of the streets mentioned were high density housing, and the Post Office directory of the time lists commercial names at a ratio of 3/1 for these streets. I seriously doubt that the 'bottom end of Hope Street' was residential as by that time the buildings were new, to complement the arrival of the Railway Station (from over the river).