Hi everyone,
Thanks for all of your thoughts - so I have been on SP this morning. I couldn't find the John Connelly that Annie mentioned age two Calton* district. I did see one that was Bellshill, but I looked on a map and it seemed rather a way out from the centre of Glasgow so didn't pay to view. I did however view a John Connnelly age 45 Anderston. However, this was indeed for a man called John Connelly etc.
I also read more information on the SP site which says that any death in Scotland must be registered within 8 days of death. (Which I thought was interesting) and could be helpful...
I wondered the following:
Can I pay for a thorough search (not just a fuzzy name search) by the National Records of Scotland to look more closely for the deaths in Glasgow, month Sept. 1898
What about trying to look at cemetery records? I've done an old Parish reg search on SP with no luck. But the list of burial grounds did not look like a full list. Is it worth contacting local cemeteries in Glasgow? I know it is not the same as a dc, but it may be all I end up with!
If a man say died in one of the hospitals in Glasgow, where would he be buried? I was thinking of making of list of likely hospitals, finding out their reg district and looking more thoroughly at indexes for those districts and possible burial grounds.
Thanks once again for all your thoughts and guidance on this.
CD
*I have found on SP a list of the Glasgow districts with dates and it seems to suggest the Calton district years are 1907-1934