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Midlothian / 1950 Edinburgh Post Office Directory
« on: Sunday 15 January 12 10:43 GMT (UK)  »
Would anyone have a copy of the 1950 Edinburgh Post Office Directory? I can't find one online.

I'm trying to determine who lived at 37 Duddingston Road, Edinburgh in 1950, as that address is cited on a passenger record.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rodeo


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Canada / James Paterson Death Record
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 09:05 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help to decipher the forename of the Briarty witness to James Paterson's death record, please?

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Passenger Record/Help Deciphering
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 08:52 GMT (UK)  »
I believe I may have found the death registration for my great uncle, James Paterson, in the parish records of Stanley Presbyterian Church, Montreal.

According to his 1927 Canadian passenger record, James Paterson's fare was paid by a friend, whose address he gave as his destination in Montreal. The name of this friend has been transcribed as W J McGinn on Ancestry but the entry on the manifest is very difficult to read. I make it W J McGovern, which is the name of one of the two subscribing witnesses on the death registration I found.

I can't quite make out the exact address in Tupper Street and what is written below it, which looks like AlberLind, Montreal.

Can anyone help to decipher both the name and the address, please?

Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Rodeo



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Lanarkshire / Annat House and Rousden Villa, Hamilton
« on: Thursday 22 December 11 11:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Does anyone (particularly a Hamiltonian) have any information about Annat House, Bothwell Road, and Rousden Villa, Park Road, Hamilton. Do they still exist?

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Canada / James Paterson Scotland to Montreal
« on: Thursday 22 December 11 11:16 GMT (UK)  »
After years of searching in vain for my great uncle, James Paterson, I've just discovered that he embarked from Glasgow on the S.S. Parisian, on 11 July 1913, his final destination being Montreal.

According to the ship manifest, he was aged 44, unmarried, and his current (and intended future) occupation was cited as Traveller (travelling salesman). Apparently, he went there to join a friend by the name of W J McGinn of 37 Tupper Street, Montreal. There is currently no such address.

I have no idea if he remained in Montreal. I'm wondering if anyone can find a record of him there (or elsewhere in Canada).

James Paterson was born on 3 November 1868 in Hamilton, Scotland, to Gavin Paterson and Janet Harvie.

I've exhausted the Quebec records online with no result.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Lanarkshire / Bell Bros, 93 Waterloo St, Glasgow
« on: Thursday 08 December 11 09:20 GMT (UK)  »
I was astounded to find in the British Newspaper Archives a most curious article concerning a charge against one of my relations, in 1903, for contravening the Pistols Act.

Apparently, he was fined for selling a pistol to a man under the age of 18 and failing to enter the description of that pistol in the log destined for that purpose under the recently passed Pistols Act.

The purchaser of the pistol subsequently lent it to a friend who shot himself in the head with it. It was particularly newsworthy for the fact that the tragic suicide victim was a well-known footballer. Both the purchaser and suicide victim were residents of Kirkcaldy, although the pistol was sold in Glasgow. The full penalty was £5, but the Magistrate modified it to a guinea.

My relative, age 18, whose surname was Bell, was employed by Bell Bros., 93 Waterloo Street, Glasgow. As his later occupation was engineer, I can only surmise that he was employed by Bell Bros while a student.

What was this Bell Bros enterprise at 93 Waterloo Street?

Surely, it wasn’t the Bell Brothers & McLelland Steamship Owners in Port Glasgow, as I presume they wouldn’t have dealt in pistols.

Any assistance would be most appreciated.

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Lanarkshire / 52 Fort Street, Motherwell/Directory
« on: Monday 25 July 11 11:11 BST (UK)  »
My great uncle emigrated from Hamilton, Scotland, to Winnipeg, Canada, where he married and had a daughter. Subsequent to his wife's death in 1919, their daughter was sent to live with her uncle (her father's brother) in Hamilton, arriving there at the age of 5 in 1923. Several years later, in 1946, she returned to Canada to take up a post as a civil servant.

In 1955, according to a passenger record I have, she returned to Lanarkshire for a stay of two months with relatives, the address being cited as 52 Fort Street, Motherwell. I've had a look at that address on Google,which appears to be a semi-detached cottage, but I have no idea what relatives were domiciled there at that time.

Does anyone have a directory of Motherwell circa 1955? If so, could you kindly do a look-up to determine who was living at that address in 1955?

Also, would that cottage have been extant in 1955 or has Fort Street undergone redevelopment since then?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs H to M / William Hamilton 1914 Death Certificate
« on: Friday 17 June 11 02:33 BST (UK)  »
I purchased a death certificate for the wrong William Hamilton and would be happy to forward it anyone who is related to the deceased. The details are as follows:

Registration District: London City/Sub-district of St. Sepulchre and All Hallows
Name: William Hamilton
Age: 65
Date and place of death: 18 March 1914 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Occupation: Butcher's Cutler
Address: 51 Long Lane, London City
Cause of death: Respiratory failure due to cerebral haemorrhage

Cheers,

Rodeo

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Antrim / Dundonald Cemetery and Belfast City Cemetery Headstones
« on: Tuesday 15 March 11 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone photographing or transcribing headstones in Dundonald Cemetery and/or Belfast City Cemetery?

Cheers,

Rodeo

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