Barnhill Poorhouse Applications

[sancti]

What year are you searching for as there was also another older Poor House on Parliamentary Road area?

[Baird]

I believe Barnhill Poorhouse became Foresthall Home. It stood at the Eastern corner of Petershill Road and Edgefauld Road. It was pulled down and new houses built on the site and it's substantial grounds.

Baird

[sancti]

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Glasgow/

[doddsie4]

          If you know someone's address, you can look it up on Find My Past.      It is handy if someone has a name that can easily be mis-spelt and they can't be found.       If you know where they were on a previous census, you can try looking for them on the Address Census 10 years on, or 10 years back..

      ... I sometimes see folk from places like Australia, Canada, USA and NZ
asking about their ancestors at Barnhill, and I feel that as I am living in Glasgow myself I should really know more about the Barnhill census.      I only have the 1881.

      Find My Past doesn't have an address census for 1911, just going backwards from 1901.       Just to clarify, my own tree is complete, so I just do some look-ups now and then, whenever I have the time.     

                                       Thanks again for quick reply,
                                                                                        Brian 

[sancti]

On the 1901 census the City Poorhouse is listed at 322 Parliamentary Road, Glasgow, St Rollox 644/6

Also Barnhill is listed at Address: Barnhill, Glasgow Dennistoun 644/3

[doddsie4]

        Yeah.       It is just listed as Barnhill, Dennistoun..       I believe the occupants of the Parliamentary road place were sent to Barnhill a few years later.       Then Barnhill poorhouse changed its name to Foresthall.

[Baird]

Follow this link to a photograph of Barnhill showing it at the corner of Edgefauld Road and Petershill Road. A short distance up Edgefauld Road you can see the Gatehouse. The high flats in the background are the Red Road Flats.

Baird

[Baird]

http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/springburn/spring043.htm

oops, I forgot the link,

Baird

[doddsie4]

   
           It's a good photo that but I saw it this morning.       The City Poorhouse was down at Clyde street, right next to the River Clyde.       Then it closes in 1905 and Barnhill becomes Foresthall, taking the Clyde St occupants.

          It's interesting.       When you try a simple google, "Barnhill Poorhouse," a list comes up, and you see about a half a dozen or so photographs of the patients etc inside the building.        I think the photos are very good.        They are great for anyone who really wants to know what conditions their ancestors were living in,
and the place looks clean and tidy to me, going by what I can make out from the photos.

                                                                                     Brian