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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 16 February 11 17:48 GMT (UK) »
At that time most weddings took place in the home of the bride, and very few took place in churches as it is today

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 16 February 11 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Sancti, that is very interesting. I am a novice at this, having only just started on my family tree. 

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 16 February 11 20:33 GMT (UK) »
my late father-in-law was born at No. 42 Struthers St, Calton in 1921.  Struthers St is now Tobago St.

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 16 February 11 21:11 GMT (UK) »
Fiona, just on your thought regarding 244 Main Street being a likely tenement. On the 1881, 67 people show at that address made up of a number of different households (including a McDougall family, John and Sarah and family).

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 07 February 12 21:48 GMT (UK) »
You may find this site helpful.

http://www.glescapals.com/

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 07 February 12 21:51 GMT (UK) »
Also a list of Glasgow street names which were subject to change prior to the 1940s

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/info-streetschanged1.html

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 07 February 12 21:58 GMT (UK) »
And another.

The origin and history of Glasgow streets

http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/minstr/minstr01.htm

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 07 February 12 22:24 GMT (UK) »
Dave just having a chuckle at this as my grandmother lived in Bridgeton and I actually remember going down the butchers too. She was off Springfield Road. Which my uncle was janitor to Springfield High School, that's where the fans used to park there cars to go to the Parkhead homes games.


Hi, I feel you may have your school's mixed up. I lived right next to "Springfield primary" school Dalmarnock.

Springfield Road Primary School
http://www.glescapals.com/schools/springfield1883.htm

Then they went up to this school, near celtic park.

Riverside Senior Secondary School
http://www.glescapals.com/schools/rvs.htm

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Re: Main Street, Glasgow
« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 07 February 12 22:52 GMT (UK) »
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The Calton Weavers from the East End of Glasgow became Scotland's first working-class martyrs' when six of them were killed by soldiers sent in to quell their strike.

The incident - at Drygate Bridge in 1787 - was the earliest major industrial dispute in Scottish history.

Those who died were buried in the Calton Cemetery in Abercromby Street, but the graveyard has become dilapidated over the years.

Check out the Old Calton Graveyard 1-3
http://www.glescapals.com/streets/abercrombyst-graveyard1.htm