Inkerman Rows

[didactylos]

My 2nd Great Grandfather, Thomas Neilson, was a foreman here in 1861 in the ironstone quarrying. I gather that it was a pretty wild place at the time. Has anyone any access to any maps or images of the housing around the time? I gather there may be material at the Lanarkshire  Archives, but as I'm in England its not something I can pop in to look at.

Roger

[Lodger]

Are you sure Inkerman Rows were in Lanarkshire? do you know the town or village? The only Inkerman Rows I know of were in Linwood which is in Renfrewshire.

[scotmum]

Another post mentioning the Inkerman Rows in Renfrewshire:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=13460.0

and Inkerman, Renfrewshire was an ironstone mining community:

http://scottishmining.co.uk/299.html

[Forfarian]

I have 28 people in my tree who were born, married or died in Inkerman, which was in the parish of Paisley in Renfrewshire.

The intriguing thing is that two families seem to have moved around within Inkerman - I have a family named Bone who were born in nos 3, 14, 57 (3 births) and 163 (3); and a family named Taylor born in 33, 119 (2), 163 (2) and 190. (Yes, Mrs Bone was a sister of Mrs Taylor).

Have you looked at the Ordnance Survey six-inch and twenty-five-inch series maps online at the National Library of Scotland http://maps.nls.uk/index.html ?

[sancti]

1861 census


Thomas Neilson 39 Born Bothwell occ Foreman (over labourers)
Agnes Neilson 27
John Neilson 9 Mo

Address No. 18 Inkerman, Abbey Landward, Renfrewshire

[sancti]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkerman,_Renfrewshire

[Donnie H]

My 3xgreat grandfather James Adamson died at 109 Inkerman on the 7th February 1858, from the information on Wikipedia and the Scottish Mining websites it would appear that it was in 1858 that Inkerman was established, as James died in early February of that year I wondered if the construction of the village would have been completed by this date, or if the houses had been constructed earlier and the village renamed Inkerman. 

[didactylos]

Firstly apologies for confusing Lanarkshire with Renfrewshire.... I'm from south of the border.

Yes I have Thomas et al on the 1861 census.

Yes I looked on the maps available online. I am guessing lack of images are due to the fact that it was hardly a  nice place to paint/draw or photograph.

Roger

[Scotchegg]

Hi, Records for Inkerman mining village may be had at Paisley Library. There is only one photo that I have seen showing the miners rows Houses and its in a book done by Stenlake named Linwwood.
I am currently working on a book of Inkerman. Your ancestor is probably buried in Woodside Cemetery Paisley. You can phone the Cemetery and ask, giving them the date of death.

John Mac