Rose Street Glasgow

[RJ_Paton]

The Hutchesontown bit makes quite a difference .... As Lodger says the nearest non denominational Cemetery was the Southern Necropolis (and possibly the most likely)

http://www.southernnecropolis.com/

Given your ancestors faith it is also possible that she may have attended the nearest Episcopalian Church - St Andrews by the Green http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA01029  which is a relatively short walk from that Rose Street. Although there was a Church of Scotland Parish Church  and a UF Church just around the corner (both Presbyterian).
My lot came from Thistle Street nearby.

http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/glasgow-in-the-1970s-last-days-of-the-old-gorbals__o_t__t_1236.html

some later photographs of the area (1960's to 1970's)

[Skoosh]

Jist put me in the mood for a plate o soup! 

Skoosh.

[Louisa_ann]

Thank you for the links .The photographs are fantastic.
Have a lovely day LA

[Ruskie]

Thanks for the Gorbals link Falkyrn. The photos are wonderful - very atmospheric, the buildings amazing - it's so sad that so many have been demolished. 

[Turner191262]

I have identified 2 great aunts who were both born at 71 Rose Street in Hutchesontown although their family address was 41 Commercial Rd in Hutchesontown(where 5 other siblings were all born and my great aunts later lived). Was 71 Rose Street a hospital or where a midwife possibly lived? I discovered that 71 Rose Street was one of the places that bubonic plague broke out in August 1900. A fish hawker Mrs Bogie and her daughter fell ill with it. Any help would be appreciated.

[Lodger]

Hi Turner,

71 Rose Street was a tenement building, my great-grandparents lived there for a couple of years in the 1880s. They then moved to South Shamrock Street and by 1900, when the plague arrived, poverty, not the plague had left my granny an orphan at the age of fourteen. Both her parents and all her 7 siblings had died. "The good old days" that Maggie Thatcher wanted us to go back to!

[Turner191262]

A hard, hard time to be alive unless you had money behind you. My grandfather, born in 1911 in Commercial Rd, had 10 siblings, only he and his brother Tommy and sister Annie lived beyond 16. TB, pneumonia and whooping cough all took their toll in a 2 room flat.

[Lodger]

A hard, hard time to be alive unless you had money behind you. My grandfather, born in 1911 in Commercial Rd, had 10 siblings, only he and his brother Tommy and sister Annie lived beyond 16. TB, pneumonia and whooping cough all took their toll in a 2 room flat.

Yes, all the children in one bed, all coughing into each other's face. Some didn't even have the luxury of a 2-roomed flat. Many, including some of my own family, lived in one room, a"kitchen" or "single-end" as they were known. One communal toilet on the half stair for about 5 - 8 families, big families!