St Paul's Parish, Glasgow.

[Calvin Wyatt]

Hi everybody. I have a census from 1851 for a parish. I can't quite make it out. water high? Outer High? Or St Paul's. My ancestors lived in 23 Bell Street. I'm trying to narrow down finding them in a later census as I don't have a lot of info, but without knowing which area of Glasgow this is, I don't know where to start in narrowing it down.

[garngad]

Bell St is at the bottom of the High Street in Glasgow just before the Gallowgate and Tollbooth very close to the city centre and may have come under the Calton district.

To amend the reference to the Calton as when the census was taken Bell St which starts in the Candleriggs district would have stopped at the High St where as today it now continues across the High St into what was then Graeme St Calton district now renamed as a continuation of Bell St.

[merryhow]

Hi, my GtGtGrandparents lived at 6 Bell st . It was Outer High or St Paul's.

[DamonC]

Was just searching in google for the same address to find out more about it... to solve a mystery.
I am looking at a page of that same census and it would seem we are looking at the same page. curious what family you are investigating? For me its Crawford (Agnes, Margaret, Jane)

[DamonC]

I see from other posts of yours we are looking at the same people.

Im a Crawford and have some issues tracing that back beyond a Crawford marriage in 1838 in Glasgow before getting on a boat to Aus in 1849. Cant trace Crawfords back any further. I had an ancestry match with someone descending from the Crawford, Craig, Marshall line so ive been trying to take the info from this persons tree and trace it back further into the Crawford history to see if anything matches what i do know. That way trying to see if my ancestry match is indeed via the Crawford angle.

So in the census, one thing i find interesting is the note in the condition column for Agnes C. "Husband in workhouse"...if ive understood correctly. Implying that he might still be around at that point.

[Forfarian]

If he was in the poorhouse (are you sure it says 'workhouse'?) there should be a record of him in the Poor Law archives in the Mitchell Library. Among other details, such a record would almost certainly say which parish he was born in.

[DamonC]

i cant see what else it would say. I feel like "work" is pretty clear but less so the second half.

[Forfarian]

Fairy nuff.

It's just that what in England is called a workhouse is usually called a poorhouse in Scotland.

Definitely worth checking the Glasgow Poor Law records.

[garngad]

DamonC I take it your referring to me regards Crawford, it is my maternal line and trace back to Ireland with a marriage in 1876 in Lisnaskea/Moat between my gg grand parents James Crawford (1842-1915) and Jane McManus (1848-1885) they arrived in Glasgow after feb 1876 and had my grt grandfather John in dec 1876 so they are after your dates given and I have no concrete info regards before 1876 apart from guessing their exact ages which are derived from their marriage cert from Ireland then census and death certificates, James Crawford (1842) did die in the Govan Poor House in 1915. He and Jane had four sons John (1876 my grt grand father) James (1878) Edward (1880) and Charles (1882) no issues/children for the 3 later named Charles died 1908 in Uruguay/montevideo while working on a steam ship James and Edward both died in Glasgow 1950/45 both single and like i said with no children. garngad