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Re: Voters Information Gorbals 1911 - 1920s
« Reply #9 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:02 BST (UK) »
I was delighted to get the 1913/14 entry because sadly my gt grandmother Mary Anne (Forsythe) Kerr died of tubercular meningitis in 1913.

Yup! that's him in 1927 it says Dundas House but was actually 158 North Spiers Wharf where I was born.   ;D  Dundas House was 50 yards round the corner, the house built by/for Ann Dundas.  Methinks my gt grandfathers new wife had ideas above her station!  :P

He had remarried by 1927 (it split the family) he wasn't married long before he died in 1936 aged 76 (silly old fool!) nowt like an old fool is there? ;D  Of course after his death she took off with all the family's keepsakes from their mother and destroyed most of the paperwork!  :'(


Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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Re: Voters Information Gorbals 1911 - 1920s
« Reply #10 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:20 BST (UK) »
Life, ehhh  :)

Sad second wife took off with all the family docs which should have been distributed through the family  :-\

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« Reply #11 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:38 BST (UK) »
So you were born at Collector's/Bridge Keeper House www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702   ;)

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« Reply #12 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:47 BST (UK) »
Correct!  Better view showing the corner of Ann Dundas's Dundas House far left  :P  ;D

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702

Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman


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« Reply #13 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:51 BST (UK) »
How lucky to have your birth home so well photographed  ;D

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« Reply #14 on: Friday 17 September 10 17:55 BST (UK) »
Even better this one which shows the .............. no not tram lines TRAIN tracks  :D

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702

I think it must have been the last train along the line I saw while still at primary school.  You wouldn't get that now with H&S!!
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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« Reply #15 on: Friday 17 September 10 18:08 BST (UK) »
The very beautiful  "Dundas House" is the large house with the columns at the entrance.

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=173702
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman

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« Reply #16 on: Friday 17 September 10 18:12 BST (UK) »
See what you mean regarding aspirations  :) Fab photos these aren't they. How much of these remain do you know?

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« Reply #17 on: Friday 17 September 10 19:13 BST (UK) »
The distillery was turned into yuppy flats and the only building kept, renovated  and I believe turned into an inn for the residents was Dundas House which has been erroneously logged as built as offices it wasn't!    

Ann Dundas was *I think* the daughter of Revd Thomas Lawrence Dundas (3rd son of Thomas Dundas 1st Baron Dundas of Aske).

http://thepeerage.com/p4712.htm

As the family had hugely backed the building of the Forth and Clyde Canal they more or less owned Port Dundas.  All the streets and roads leading to Port Dundas were named after the family Ann St/Port Dundas/Port Dundas Road etc.

I believe they had properties along the length of the canal.  Certainly the canal cut through their Estate at Kerse near Falkirk, which obviously gave them the upper hand!  ;)

Very sad that our house was demolished, the last in Glasgow with no electricity at all ie gas lighting (including a water sealed chandelier in the dining room (no less!!) - now in the Peoples Palace, Glasgow Green along with pleasure boat tickets and other canal memorabilia donated by my gran).  The house doesn't look big but it was huge, 7 rooms upstairs, 2 halls inner and outer, 18ft reception room/parlour, livingroom/kitchen plus scullery and laundry, indoor toilet and adjacent large bathroom and outside, 4 brick built outhouses.  It was the harbour master house, next door and partly underneath, was the canal offices, partly above them the bridgekeepers flat and he also had a yard where he kept chickens!!
Ireland, Co Antrim: Kerr; Hollinger; Forsythe; Moore
Ireland, Co Louth: Carson; Leslie
Ireland, Co Kerry: Ferris
Scotland, Perthshire/Glasgow:  Stewart
England, Devon/Cornwall: Ferris, Gasser/Jasser/Jesser, Norman