Help locating an ancestor in Glasgow and where to start

[kel28]

Hello,

I am not to familiar with Scotland the sites available to search.  I have checked several with no luck.   I am looking for John Gibson, I do not have a Date of Birth or Death.   I know he lived at 56 Carrick St, Anderston, Glasgow, in 1924 as I have a letter from him to my Great Grandfather.   He mentions a brother named Willie, and by the letter I believe he is in San Francisco, and a sister named Mary Ann who I believe never left Glasgow.   Does anyone have any suggestions or help?  Thank you, Kellee

[Creasegirl]

Try the 1901 and 1911 census searching under his name and then you can see if his brother and sister there.  Use scotlands people for this 

[Forfarian]

I am not to familiar with Scotland the sites available to search. 

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk is the only one with original birth, marriage, death and census documents. The others have transcriptions or indexes of the same information.
See https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0

I am looking for John Gibson, I do not have a Date of Birth or Death.   I know he lived at 56 Carrick St, Anderston, Glasgow, in 1924 as I have a letter from him to my Great Grandfather.   

Hmmm. The Valuation Rolls on the Scotland's People web site list 18 householders at 56 Carrick Street, so it was obviously a tenement building with many flats, all rented rather than owned by the occupants. The list doesn't include John Gibson, which suggests either than he had moved out of 56 Carrick Street by the time the valuation roll was compiled in the autumn of 1924, or he was a lodger or boarder in one of the households.

Unfortunately there were 191 householders named John Gibson in Glasgow in 1925, so it would be a long and very tedious task to try to match them all with previous and later valuation rolls and with death certificates.

John should be listed in the registers of electors. Some of these can be found online, butI do not know which places or years are included. The Mitchell Library in Glasgow has a full set and it would be possible to check the registers of electors in Carrick Street and find out who else was in the same household as John Gibson. However that will have to wait until after the end of the lockdown because the library is closed at the moment.

[garngad]

This family from the 1911 census in Anderston is worth spending a few pounds on methinks ....

[capricorn]

There was a John Gibson living at 81 Carrick Street in 1920 Valuation Roll

[mclachlan]

Hi Kellee,

Not sure if just coincidence but in the 1861 census, there is a Gibson family living at 56 Carrick Street.

Janet 40
Euphemia 18
William 13
Margaret 11
Jane 4

No mention of John, but in the 1851 census, living at 65 Jamaica St, the same family have a John, born 1847. If this was your John, it would make him 77 at the time of writing the letter to your Great grandfather so not sure if that fits or not. 

Regards,
Andrea