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anne jane
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Hi Ele
Your grandfather would most certainly have known or spoken about the boxer Benny Lynch and you will find more info on him at www.bennylynch.co.uk
Janie
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Thanks again for your help.. Benny does ring a bell with my Dad.. Grandad was well into boxing. His father was a Bare Knuckle fighter at the Glasgow Greens late 1800's and my Dad also a boxer. Do you know of any history on bare knuckle fighting at the Glasgow Greens.. probably done behind closed doors I would imagine..
Thanks for the Gorbal Cross info. I will take a look further. Triggered my Dads memory of Grandads stories of police on horse back turning up to where they used to hang out and taking marbles to throw on the ground to bring the police off the horses.. and sewing razor blades into the lapels of jackets incase of a fight!!
Have a great day... Ele.
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McQuade. Co Monaghan Ireland>Glasgow Scotland. McGurk. Belfast Ireland>Newcastle Upon Tyne. Chappell. Bristol. Nichol(l)s. Bristol. This information is crown copy copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukFraser. Inverness Scotland>London. Coulson. London. Phil(l)ips. Glasgow Scotland. |
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Hi Ele
I don't know anything about bare knuckle fighting in the Glasgow Green but if you go on to www.glesga.ukpals.com I am sure that someone there will answer your questions. It's also a great site for everyone who is looking for any info or help on the east end of Glasgow
Janie
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That's an excellent and informative site
Many thanks
Janie
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I dont think BOB and some of the others have been in the Gorbals for years.
All the negative comments are pathetic.
The New Gorbals is a busy place now with millions being spent in rejuvenating the area. Many expensive private housing an apartments have sprung up. The Gorbals burying ground in now a lovely rose garden. The new library is so modern in structure and content. The history of the area is so colourful and millions have lived and worked in the area over the past few hundred years. I dont see bars on any shop windows!!! 
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It is true the Gorbals was a rough and ready district of Glasgow but Hey no longer.As with many areas of Glasgow the Gorbals has been regenerated the slums and" single ends" are no more The post war 50's and 60's architexture has been replaced with new apartments and houses which are very saught after.
In the sixties(even before) many razor gangs were invovled in running battles. NO longer!
I have been researching my husbands family tree and have discovered many of his forefathers were from the highlands of Scotland drawn to Glasgow to work in the ironfoundries and shipyards during the industrial revolution,
My father-in-law was born in the Gorbals in 1918 and is still alive to-day! Still lives in Glasgow too His father was a ship's cook and was shipwrecked in WW1 and never kept good health until his death in 1941 whilst my father-in-law was serving in the war against the Japanese.Like many other Gorbals Boys he was a member of the Boys Brigade and consequently he and many of his peers joined the Territorial Army_ they were the first to be called up.Before the war ended he rose to the rank of Sargeant Major not bad for aboy from the Gorbals!!! After the war he became a teacher ,his son ,my husband a bank manager,and our sons - a surgeon,a police officer and a fire officer.How's that then
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My grandfather, Andrew William Murray, was apparently born in Gorbals (or Gobals? Is there such a place?) in Glasgow in 1897, street address 30 Main St. From what I've read about the place, this doesn't seem to make sense, as his family was quite affluent - his father James Thomson Murray, from St. Monance, was a fish curer who owned his own business. I assume they were in Glasgow as part of his business. The next I can find them is in Torry, Aberdeen, in 1901, according to the census.
Was the Gorbals still an affluent area in 1897? Is there an area of Glasgow known as Gobals? Can anyone check out his birth records for me locally there? His mother's name was Margaret Gerrard Murray, from St. Monance, Fife.
I am so confused!
Bonnie
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