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Lanarkshire / Re: Gairbraid, Baillieston
« on: Thursday 20 August 09 21:49 BST (UK)  »
The 'Gairbraid' your looking for was in present day Bargeddie - a mile east of Baillieston - Dr. Dickson who lived in Baillieston served the wider district too.

I've only looked at the place names from the 1881 census [though from your information it must have existed in 1871] which places Gairbraid in Enumeration district No.10 - between Drumpark and Dykehead - which are also places in Bargeddie, at that time both were farms, in fact the former still is.
The Gairbraid name lives on as a Gairbraid Terrace in present day Bargeddie and if you look at this modern map you'll see it located off Dykehead Road but whether that was was the exact location of the old place is another matter.



I hope this helps.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Paul - Tollkeeper, Broomhouse 1810
« on: Monday 20 July 09 21:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: tait28 on Sunday 19 July 09 23:36 BST (UK)
Hi Robert

 I have now discovered that the family moved to Hamilton parish, possibly near Limekilnburn/Glassford pre 1817.  Do you perhaps know where there might be any tollhouse records for that area? 
Lorna

The Glasgow and Shotts Trust owned a number of inter connecting turnpikes and side roads leading to them. They had a branch leading from the main Glasgow - Edinburgh via Shotts to Hamilton and Strathaven, Limekilnburn is down that way I think but I doubt that road was open as far back as 1817.
I doubt if you'll come across names of toll keepers, what you will find in the Glasgow newspapers on microfilm in the Mitch is advertisements of Roups for the letting of them, this was a yearly event mostly and it seems the highest bidder won the let.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Paul - Tollkeeper, Broomhouse 1810
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 23:03 BST (UK)  »
The road through Broomhouse was owned by the Glasgow and Shotts Turnpike Trust who let out the toll bars to individuals who collected the tolls. 
There are some records of the Glasgow and Shotts Trust in GCA at the Mitchell but I think they are 'wanting' [incomplete], Call the search room and ask - quote CO1/2/3

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Lanarkshire / Re: Glasgow - Counties?
« on: Sunday 01 March 09 01:47 GMT (UK)  »
"As Glasgow expanded southwards it took in first Rutherglen (Lanarkshire)"

With due respect the - ancient - Royal Burgh of Rutherglen only became part of Glasgow in the Local Government reorganisation in 1975.
In 1996 it was removed from Glasgow to the new authority of South Lanarkshire.

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Lanarkshire / Re: 350 graves to be exhumed
« on: Sunday 08 February 09 01:55 GMT (UK)  »
Lodger can I suggest there could well have be an article in the Advertiser regarding the lairs concreted over? We only need what year it was to make the search easier.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Bothwell
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thorniewood or Thornwood Rows - presently Tannochside (ish). There were 3 nearby collieries called Bredisholm No.s' 1, 3 & 4  with the Nackerty pit being the nearest - a couple of minutes walk along the road. These pits were latterly owned by United Collieries Ltd., other local pits were owned by Addie and Nimmo.

So Its Bothwell parish but not Bothwell village. Here is a modern day image with the name preserved, Nackerty pit was a wee bit north of the water tower on the A752.


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Lanarkshire / Re: TULLYFRIEZE IN OLD MONKLAND
« on: Sunday 16 March 08 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: cavvytri on Sunday 23 December 07 14:59 GMT (UK)
Hi Baird, on Ancestry te address is given as West Merryston, parish of Old Monkland. Hope that helps?
Cav

Apologies for dragging an old thread up but I think I'd dispute the above statement. According to the enumerator's schedule of the 1841 census, Tullyfrieze - which wasn't so much a distinctive place as a property owner's name - was contained within;

"So much of the Parish lies at Baillieston Toll, Camp and Faulds"

This Tullyfrieze was probably a building in the present Camp Road, then known as the Colliery Road, at that time that area would not have been strictly part of the village of Baillieston Toll.

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Lanarkshire / Re: assaulted his wife !!
« on: Sunday 11 February 07 19:31 GMT (UK)  »
I just noticed you don't indicate a date, (how did I miss that last night? couldn't have been the wee dram ....  ::)) that will make the enquiry a lot more difficult. Try and provide a date. Good luck.

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Lanarkshire / Re: assaulted his wife !!
« on: Saturday 10 February 07 22:40 GMT (UK)  »
It may have have been written about in the court report column of the Airdrie Advertiser, worth checking. Available on microfilm at Local Studies, Airdrie Library and if you can't get there the staff will conduct a search for you (for a fee).

Phone 01236 758073

With the specifics you have and if it was reported it will be found in a jiffy.

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