Name: John Christie
Age: 59
Estimated birth year: abt 1792
Relationship: Head
Gender: Male
So far so good.
Where born: Dumbarton, Perthshire
Given the obvious disparity here it needs to be checked
Parish Number: 644/1
644 is certainly Glasgow and post 1855 644/01 is the Central District.
Civil parish: Glasgow St Paul
County: Lanarkshire
I still cannot find St Paul amongst my list of Parishes or registration Districts and I thought I knew most of the churches in the central area
Address: 15 Nicholas St
Nicholas Street still exists although nothing from that time period remains. The street runs parallel to George Street and runs from High Street to Shuttle Street.
Occupation: Detective Efficer Of Police
I've seen them called worse
To have been a detective officer in those days spoke highly of the way the man would have been regarded by senior officers in the Force especially to be still there at 59 yrs of age. The first detective was appointed in 1819 and there was considerable opposition to the use of "plain clothes" fearing that persons so appointed would be tempted by the criminals with whom they would be mixing. On the uniform side of things there was a constantly high turnover of personnel as officers were dismissed.
