Barnhill Poorhouse Applications

[sancti]

http://www.rcahmsprints.com/view_of_the_city_poor_house_parliamentary_road_glasgow_date_c1880/print/4021499.html

[doddsie4]

Sancti,
             Great photo.       Another very clean looking place.       

             Now though, I am wondering.....        Unless I am mixed up, there must have been three poorhouses: one seems to show on that map at Clyde St, another was in Parliamentary Rd, and then there was one at Barnhill.       So which is the City Poorhouse - the one in the photo at Clyde St or the one north of it at Parliamentary Road?

             Parliamentary Road vanished in the 1960's due to reconstruction in the city centre, but it was around Cathedral street area.

             It looks like the "City Poorhouse" was at Parliamentary Road.   I think I am wrong when I said it was at Clyde Street.
 

             

[sancti]

The Glasgow City Poorhouse stood on the north side of Parliamentary Road, to the west of its junction with St James Road

[doddsie4]

   Got it now.       ...You see that post at 13.41 with the site address that shows a hospital & poorhouse at Clyde Street - I wonder how big a place that was?
 
    ... Ah - I have just seen that it closed in 1841, so it isn't really relevant to this.         

[RJ_Paton]

The 1881 Post Office Directory gives the addresses as
Barnhill Poorhouse off 216 Springburn Road
City Poorhouse 322 Parlimentary Road

[doddsie4]

 
    Checking.....       

                 Thanks for those addresses,
                                                                                        Brian

[doddsie4]

          I have come to the conclusion that the only Barnhill census that is available outside of the Mitchell Library Archives is the one for 1881.       Why there should be one and no others is quite puzzling.      I was also unable to find any Barnhill Poorhouse residents using the Street Census on Find My Past.
I tried 1891 and 1901 looking for it in Petershill Road.
   
          The heading on the 1881 census for Barnhill Poorhouse gives no address,
so that was no help.        The building was close to Springburn Road, but I think you reached it by going along Petershill Rd and turning left.

         

[MonicaL]

  Barnhill Poorhouse does show in 1901 (haven't yet checked 1891 but undoubtedly it will too - all people show in the censuses, regardless of whether they are in a form of institution: prisons, hospitals etc.). Not sure how FindMyPast works but I seached on A/try as:

Lanarkshire, Glasgow Springburn
Relationship to head: Inmate

This brings up the poorhouse at:
Address: Barnhill, Glasgow, Glasgow Springburn
Reg District: Dennistoun

Monica

[MonicaL]

1891 shows a little different. Again, as indexed by a/try:

Barony Parish Poorhouse: Address Barnhill, at Glasgow Barony. Reg. district Dennistoun.

Monica