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So interesting to read all your history. I discovered that my fathers great grandmother died at 25 Muse Lane. Im assuming she was in the Rat Pit because she was alone. Her husband had died in 1888 in the Infirmary in Glasgow. They had come down to Glasgow from Ross and Cromarty years before. Her name was Helen Fraser nee Robertson. Discovered my dad paternal family came to Glasgow from braade and Lifford Donegal, the last two years of the Famine. They settled in Bishop Street in Anderson, the daughter getting work as weavers, the father a labourer and the son a mould apprentice. Must have been very hard. Agnes, the youngest though died in Barnhill Poor House in 1883. Very poor people. All my dads family came from Cowcaddens, he grew up there. Its been a fascinating project so far but very sad for the women. they seem to have suffered terribly.