Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!

[RJ_Paton]

Found a possible 1871 census entry for Jane Blair/Norval. It is for a Mrs Blair, age 31, born in Glasgow and she is a patient in the Belvidere Fever Hospital, London Road, Calton, Lanarkshire. Occupation is Housewife.
Isobel

Worth a check given the Blair & Norval connection but bearing in mind she was married  and had a child by 1850 and this census entry would have given a birth date around 1840

[isobelw]

Sorry - should say age 40. Thinking about Year of birth! In 1851 Jane was 21, so this is a possible.
Isobel

[sparrett]

Does anyone know, is there a way to get access to the information in these records?
What level of detail is recorded about patients?

http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb65.html

Sue

[OZScot]

WoW!!! Opened the Computer earlier this morning and Boom!!

The Ancestry tooth fairy had come overnight. Can't wait to go through it all.
Cut my early morning walk with my wife and family [6kg Tibetan Terrier] to get back to it.

A BIG thanks to everyone from me and the lady's Family as well I'm sure. Eventually she will
be told of all the help involved from a lot of great people from all the 4 corners.

I was given an old dusty blank canvas that was handed to me that I knew had an unknown picture underneath and a lot of unknown people had painted parts of it. It had two revealed faces of a mother and daughter.

I brushed off some of the easier areas and I saw this picture will be great and it will tell an amazing untold story. It needed to be seen. The dust of several hundred years needed expert conservation to reveal the rest. I took it to a place where I knew there were experts who would help to try and reveal the rest.

Thanks.

More later.♥

[OZScot]

Flora Sinclair was living at 157 Holm Street in 1861 and is described as a Lodging House Keeper.
Isobel

Sounds like a good cover for that type of work. People coming and going as 'boarders'. From memory the other place was also a Lodging House and Jane was 'boarding' there and a corset maker. I'm certain it was one now. I saw an old picture of Holm street and it made Saltmarket street look like a seaside Boulevard.

I looked at some directories and at the address there were all sorts of people and businesses at one time or another and one I saw was a 'Dressmakers'.

Thanks Isobel.

[OZScot]

Found a possible 1871 census entry for Jane Blair/Norval. It is for a Mrs Blair, age 31, born in Glasgow and she is a patient in the Belvidere Fever Hospital, London Road, Calton, Lanarkshire. Occupation is Housewife.
Isobel

That sounds like another good fit and she changes her name regularly to suit. Good work.
The age is perfect.

I'd hate to be on the run and hiding under a rock in the desert and Detective Isobel had a tip off that he's somewhere in that vast expanse ... I wouldn't feel safe. That goes for everybody too.

[OZScot]

*** Ruskie thanks for your advice about getting details from her Mum but I took the cowards way out some time ago and left it all to her daughter.
I think that she can screen all questions that can be asked whether delicate or not and what she wants to show her.

*** Wivenhoe thanks for your great and meticulous information once again that would have taken a lot of research and time just typing it all so succinctly.

*** Nothing yet from the churches.

An oddity about her mother's parents - there is no DC's of them on the Qld register's. I've been in touch with Ipswich Cemeteries [driving them mad I'm afraid] looking for all they have and they have been great. Have found most of what I want but not that so far.

More to come.

[majm]

An oddity about her mother's parents - there is no DC's of them on the Qld register's. I've been in touch with Ipswich Cemeteries [driving them mad I'm afraid] looking for all they have and they have been great. Have found most of what I want but not that so far.

Qld BDM has restricted access to non historic registrations, and so the online indexes do not display recent registrations.   Each of the eight jurisdictions in Australia have their own BDM registers and these state/territories regulations are not yet harmonised.  Perhaps the deaths of her parents are within Qld BDM's restricted access period. 

From Qld BDM:
https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/information-and-how-to-access-and-order-records/information-you-can-access/
Historical records are:
•births that took place more than 100 years ago
•marriages that took place more than 75 years ago
•deaths that occurred more than 30 years ago.


How to access non historic records Qld BDM
https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/birth-death-and-marriage-certificates/death-certificates/applying-for-a-death-certificate/

JM

[majm]

Does anyone know, is there a way to get access to the information in these records?
What level of detail is recorded about patients?

http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb65.html

Sue

May I add to Sue's great question and ask if the following Glasgow website would be useful too.
http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/info-tya.html   

JM