Old Motherwell addresses

[Drop Bear]

Hello to all,

Could someone please enlighten me as to whether the following were actual residential addresses or perhaps they were a hostel, hospital or other.

For between 1900 & 1920;
18 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell
25 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell
25 Ellenpark Terrace, Motherwell (which in 1901 I have as Airbles Street, Ellenpark Terrace)

and in 1948;
29 Hetherwood Road, Motherwell

I require this information to establish whether or not this is where my Great Grandparents actually lived.
Thank you in advance

Liz
Australia

[sancti]

Could Hetherwood Road be Netherwood Road which is in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell?

[Lodger]

Hi Drop Bear,

As Sancti has already mentioned, it will be Netherwood Road, not Hetherwood Rd. It is made up of municipal houses, a small street with a "diamond" in the centre, it's still there, a few minutes walk from where I live, I know a few people who live there.

Quarryhall Street was demolished to make way for the new Police Station, late 1960s - early 1970s I think. So the street no longer exists.
From 1900 - 1930 there would have been a mixture of 2 and 3 story tenement buildings, with a few cottages in between. It was a short street, running off the main street in the area - Windmillhill St, into Orbiston St (probably called Miller St in those days). No hostel or hospital as far as I know.
In the 1925 Motherwell directory the following are at 18 Quarryhall St -
At 18a are G. FARMER, wagon builder. AGNES BOLTON, widow. THOMAS AITCHISON, steelworker.
At 18b is JAMES LOGAN, painter.
Number 25 Quarryhall St must have been a fairly big tenement (by Motherwell standards). There are 15 householders named (this book is almost like a voters roll).
25a - ARCHIBALD BLAIR.
25a - WILLIAM NICOL, wheelwright.
25b - WILLIAM GILFILLAN, smith.
25b - WILLIAM SHARP, steelworker.
25c - JAMES McKELLAR, miner.
25c - ROBERT GILMOUR, wagon builder.
25d - D. B. FOREMAN, steelworker.
25d - ALEX COLLINS, clerk.
25d - JOHN McFARLANE, miner.
25e - MRS ANNIE HAIR.
25f - ALEXANDER PATON, miner.
25g - THOMAS NEILSON, stocktaker.
25h - MRS JAMES PRENTICE.
25i - JAMES ROEBUCK, plater.
25j - DAVID CAMPBELL, steelworker.

Elmpark Terrace was a large section of Airbles Street, made up of 2-story tenenment buildings, about 36 houses (as we call them in Scotland but apartments really). All the tenements in Airbles St were demolished in the late 1960s.

If you let me know the family name of your ancestor I can check the 1911 and 1922 directories.

[Drop Bear]

Thank you Sancti,

On closer inspection of Great Grandma's death certificate it is an N for Netherwood.

Regards
Liz

[Drop Bear]

Hi Drop Bear,

As Sancti has already mentioned, it will be Netherwood Road, not Hetherwood Rd. It is made up of municipal houses, a small street with a "diamond" in the centre, it's still there, a few minutes walk from where I live, I know a few people who live there.

Quarryhall Street was demolished to make way for the new Police Station, late 1960s - early 1970s I think. So the street no longer exists.
From 1900 - 1930 there would have been a mixture of 2 and 3 story tenement buildings, with a few cottages in between. It was a short street, running off the main street in the area - Windmillhill St, into Orbiston St (probably called Miller St in those days). No hostel or hospital as far as I know.
In the 1925 Motherwell directory the following are at 18 Quarryhall St -
At 18a are G. FARMER, wagon builder. AGNES BOLTON, widow. THOMAS AITCHISON, steelworker.
At 18b is JAMES LOGAN, painter.
Number 25 Quarryhall St must have been a fairly big tenement (by Motherwell standards). There are 15 householders named (this book is almost like a voters roll).
25a - ARCHIBALD BLAIR.
25a - WILLIAM NICOL, wheelwright.
25b - WILLIAM GILFILLAN, smith.
25b - WILLIAM SHARP, steelworker.
25c - JAMES McKELLAR, miner.
25c - ROBERT GILMOUR, wagon builder.
25d - D. B. FOREMAN, steelworker.
25d - ALEX COLLINS, clerk.
25d - JOHN McFARLANE, miner.
25e - MRS ANNIE HAIR.
25f - ALEXANDER PATON, miner.
25g - THOMAS NEILSON, stocktaker.
25h - MRS JAMES PRENTICE.
25i - JAMES ROEBUCK, plater.
25j - DAVID CAMPBELL, steelworker.

Elmpark Terrace was a large section of Airbles Street, made up of 2-story tenenment buildings, about 36 houses (as we call them in Scotland but apartments really). All the tenements in Airbles St were demolished in the late 1960s.

If you let me know the family name of your ancestor I can check the 1911 and 1922 directories.

Thank you Lodger,
My Great Grandparents were Peter Farrell & Mary Fegan (Fagan)
1900 - Both lived 25 Ellenpark Terrace, Motherwell (Daughter Birth)
1901 - Both lived Airbles Street, Ellenpark Terrace, Motherwell (Cenus)
1904 - Both lived 25 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Son Birth)
1905 - Both lived 25 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Daughter Birth)
1906 - Both lived 25 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Son Birth)
1909 - Both lived 25 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Daughter Birth)
1910 - Both lived 18 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Son Birth)
1911 - Both lived 18 Quarryhall Street, Motherwell (Census)
1926 - Both lived 2 Orbiston Street, Motherwell (Manifest)
1948 -  Great Grandma lived 29 Netherwood Road, Motherwell (Her death)
Kindest regards
Liz

[sancti]

Mary Fagan is interred in St Pats cemetery, New Stevenston, also mentioned on the stone is her husband Peter Farrell died 1927 interred in USA. Son Patrick died 1973 aged 71 and daughter Ellen died 5th Jan 1981

LFHS are transcribing the M.I.s for this cemetery which has a number of headstones containing the name Farrell

[Drop Bear]

Thanks for that Sancti,

I have the photo of that headstone. It is a large celtic cross. The photo I have shows all that you have mentioned except for Ellen. That must have been added recently.

Thank you again,
Liz

[sancti]

Ellen's name was on the side of the stone which I missed when taking the original picture 

[Rockford]

In the 1925 Motherwell directory ....... If you let me know the family name of your ancestor I can check the 1911 and 1922 directories.

Sorry to hijack the thread!

Lodger, are those directories available publicly?

Best wishes

Rockford