"The Sorn" Glasgow

[daval57]

Just had to log back in to make one final parting comment.  I just noticed birth place of Mary's parents.  Sorn!  If father did own a block of houses, that's obviously where he took the name from.

Seems unlikely that a parcel deliverer would be able to purchase a block of houses though.  Family rumour or family inheritance? 

Too early for The Great Train Robbery!

Incidentally Pete.  St Rollox was the name of a huge Railway works near Stirling Road, about half a mile south.  Stirling Rd still exists but is all now part of Strathclyde uni.  At the top of Stirling Road is Glasgow Cathedral.

Dave

[MonicaL]

Hi All

This looks to be Donald Campbell's 1891 entry - everyone showing as born in Oban apart from Donald Snr.:

Donald Campbell 31, blacksmith, b. Glasgow, Tradeston
Flora Campbell 29
Angus Campbell 11
Donald Campbell 9
Catherine Campbell 6
Duncan Campbell 4
Neil Campbell 2
Annie Campbell 1Month

Address: No 21 High Street, Oban

And either side of that entry, is the 1881:

Donald Campbell 23, blacksmith, b. Glasgow
Flora Campbell 21, b. Oban
Angus Campbell 1, b. Oban

Address:  High Street, Kilmore and Kilbride

And finally, 1901:

Donald Campbell 45, blacksmith, b. Glasgow
Flora Campbell 44
Angus Campbell 21, hotel porter
Donald Campbell 19, blacksmith
Duncan Campbell 14
James Campbell 6
Annie Campbell 4
Isabella Stewart 47, relationship mis-transcribed on the index ? b. Oban
Annie M N Stewart 14, b. Oban

Address: No 21 High Street, Oban

Monica 

[Lodger]

I can't help with your family but I do have a photograph of High St Oban. My great grandmother and most of her siblings were born at 23 High St. They lived there from about 1860 - 1895. So they would have known your family very well.  In the picture No 21 is just beside the red car on the right of the street, just before the scaffolding.  I have a better picture but it's too big to post here.

[MonicaL]

Photographs help so much in making stories come alive 

Monica

Added: 'Current' google ref for the address  :

Oban Addiction Support & Information Service, 21 High Street, OBAN PA34 4GB

[daval57]

This is Dalziels the bakers in Stirling Rd (c1906).  I think the number is 82.  It would have been just down the road on the other side of the street from your rellies.
(My gran is far left).
Her husband to be owned a butchers shop closer, and on the same side of the street but alas, no photos of it.

[Kate B]

Sorn is in East Ayrshire, and about 3miles away from Old Cumnock.
http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/comser/my%20area/sorn.asp

Have you seen the "Long Lost Relative" post on here:
http://www.curiousfox.com/history_S/renfrewshire_2.html
Definitely related!!


PS I can recommend the SORN INN -  we had B&B there a few years back and it was lovely!

[RJ_Paton]

Re Glasgow Trams WW1 - http://glasgowtransport.co.uk/trams.html  has some interesting reading and a couple of photographs of WW1 conductresses

[Kate B]

Could this be the death of a brother of George McGhee?

William McGhee, 36, August 15, 1869 at Sorn, Ironstone Miner,
Married to Elizabeth Donelly,
Henry McGhee, Labourer (dec) and Bridget Hamill (dec)
Patrick Donelly, Brother-in-law (X)

[daval57]

Possibly Kate, but maybe a bit young...
George was bc1859, William bc1833

Once Pete finds the marriage of George and Catherine, it will be easier to tell.

I'm assuming Henry McGhee and Bridget Hamill are Williams parents and Patrick the person that registered the death?

Perhaps Henry and Bridget are Georges parents?