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Title: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: AllieElsokary on Thursday 15 June 17 04:28 BST (UK)
Would really appreciate if anyone is heading to the Mitchell Library in Glasgow if they would mind looking up someone for me in the Poorhouse Relief Applications.☺

Name: Rachel Goldie
Died: 21st February  1870 age 27
Pauper Millworker City Poorhouse
74 Back Wynd, Glasgow
Parents Michael Goldie/Margaret Goldie nee Fisher? Frisher

Any mention of a child Mary born 1866 to Rachel? Illegitimate? What happened to the child? Or any other children? Any other info would be marvellous.

Many thanks ☺
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 15 June 17 04:49 BST (UK)
Any mention of a child Mary born 1866 to Rachel? Illegitimate? What happened to the child? Or any other children?

Where was Mary born?

Have you checked if she's in the Poorhouse in 1871/1881?

Annie
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 15 June 17 04:55 BST (UK)
Do you have the Registration District in Glasgow of the Poorhouse please?

Annie

Added, have you checked if she's with her maternal g/parents on census'?
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 15 June 17 05:01 BST (UK)
1881 Govan Poorhouse has 2 Goldies although Mary isn't one of them;

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Govan/Govan1881.shtml#Inmates

Annie
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: solidrock on Thursday 15 June 17 05:04 BST (UK)
Mary Goldie. 1866 Clyde,Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland. mother Rachel.

45, King Street, Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. (children of various names and ages).
1871 census Mary Goldie. Boarder age 6, born Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

There is a marriage for Mary Goldie to John Scott, 27 Jan 1883. St Patrick, Glasgow. (Roman Catholic).
    
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: Rosinish on Thursday 15 June 17 05:25 BST (UK)
Possible death?

GOLDIE MARY 59
1921
644/12 879
Hillhead

SCOTT MARY 59
1921
644/12 879
Hillhead

Annie
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: AllieElsokary on Thursday 15 June 17 05:28 BST (UK)
Thanks everyone☺

My gg father John Mc Fadyen  married a Mary Goldie in Kinning park in 1886, she was 19 which would match with the Mary born to Rachel in 1866. This mary was born to Rachel.

The confusion lies in their marriage certificate. Parents are John Goldie and Agnes Goldie nee Stevenson.

Since Mary was illegitimate and Rachels parents were Michael Goldie and Margaret Fisher and Michael was deceased when Rachel died I am wondering if Rachels daughter Mary was adopted and Michael had a brother John.

John and Agnes married in 1869, but in the 1881 census Their child Mary is 14 making her born in 1866, 3 years before they married!

This makes me think Rachel was destitute, a pauper and her father was deceased and the he had a brother who took in Mary, her child.

Trying to see if the poor records offer up more of her info ☺
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: AllieElsokary on Thursday 15 June 17 05:36 BST (UK)
Solidrock

Mary Goldie born 9 March 1866
47 King St
To Rachel Goldie no father illegitimate

This is 2 doors away from your 45 King St

Can you please tell me who that census was for in 1871?
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: AllieElsokary on Thursday 15 June 17 05:53 BST (UK)
Looks like Mary boarded 2 doors away at number 45 King St

Rachels death cert just says she died City Poorhouse folks ....
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: AllieElsokary on Thursday 15 June 17 05:56 BST (UK)
Rosinish

Was Govan the same as City Poorhhouse?
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: solidrock on Thursday 15 June 17 06:50 BST (UK)
Solidrock

Mary Goldie born 9 March 1866
47 King St
To Rachel Goldie no father illegitimate

This is 2 doors away from your 45 King St

Can you please tell me who that census was for in 1871?

The 1871 census was for John Algier and his wife Agnes. There are 6 boarders living with them aged from 3 to 14.
Beginning to wonder if Algier is the right name as I can't find trace of him appart from this census.
You say the parents on Mary's marriage cert are John and Agnes, maybe these are the same.
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: Lodger on Friday 16 June 17 09:41 BST (UK)
Rosinish

Was Govan the same as City Poorhhouse?

Govan was a separate parish, with its own, very well kept, records. They have survived and are with the other 2 Glasgow parishes at the Mitchell.
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 14:07 BST (UK)
Hi there

Have you looked at the marriage of John Goldie and Agnes Stevenson to confirm his parents' names?

I think young Mary was already with John Goldie and Agnes Stevenson by 1871. This is a not great transcript from 1871:

Jean Goldie 21 collier b. Glasgow
Agnes Goldie 22 b. Campsie Stirlingshire (matches with 1881)
Mary Goldie 4 daughter b. Glasgow

Address: 62 Main Street, Hutchesontown, Glasgow Gorbals

First born son John may have died by now? https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQQX-WQL

Monica  :)



Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 14:10 BST (UK)

Was Govan the same as City Poorhhouse?

From info already mentioned by Annie and Lodger, have a look at the listings for the Glasgow area here www.workhouses.org.uk/Glasgow/

Monica
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 14:41 BST (UK)
For Michael Goldie and wife Margaret, I can only see one baptism for one of their children on the SP RC database:

Margaret Goldy b. 3/4/1843 and bpt. 18/4/1843 at Glasgow, St Andrew's
Parents Michael Goldy and Margaret Fisker

Have you found Rachel in early censuses pre her death in 1870? Struggling to see her so far (or also the John Goldie we have been discussing here pre 1871).

Monica
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 15:46 BST (UK)
Possible death entry for Rachel's mother?

Margaret Goldie aged 62 in 1881 - Refs 644/6 408 St Rollox/Glasgow
Margaret Fisher aged 62 in 1881 - Refs 644/6 408 St Rollox/Glasgow

Possible remarriage for mother Margaret as I think she also shows as Bryson, with the same refs:

Margaret Bryson aged 62 in 1881 - Refs 644/6 408 St Rollox/Glasgow

The 1871 census shows a Margaret Bryson, aged 53 and born in Ireland, at the City Parish Poohouse. Rachel had been there at the time of her death in 1870 from what you mentioned earlier.

Monica
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 16:35 BST (UK)
Sorry! I keep on posting in bits and varied pieces  ::)

I think this might be Rachel with mother in 1851. She is down as Gourlay from the Freecen transcript. The family showing as lodgers in the Blair household :

James Bryson 24, tailor b. Ireland
Margaet Bryson 30, tailor's wife b. Ireland
Rachel Gourlay 12 b. Glasgow
John Gourlay 10 b. Glasgow
James Bryson 3 b. Glasgow
Catherine Bryson 10 months b. Glasgow

Address: 80 Bridgegate Street 2nd Land, Glasgow

There is this RC brith & christening entry on SP:

Rachel GOURLY b. 22/3/1839 and bpt. 28/4/1839. Parents Michael Gourley and Margaret LASHIRE.
Glasgow, St Andrew's

This would fit with this 1841 census entry:

Michael Gourly 45 journeyman b. Ireland
Margaret Gourley 25 b. Ireland
Rachel Gourley 2 b. Lanarkshire
John Gourley 6 months b. Lanarkshire

Address: Back Wynd, Glasgow

Monica
Title: Re: Look up help needed Mitchell Library please
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 17 June 17 16:53 BST (UK)
Margaret and Bryson family in 1861:

James Bryson 40 tailor b Ireland
Maryant [sic]Bryson 40 tailoress b. Ireland
Catherine Bryson 11 b. Glasgow
Ann Bryson 3 b. Glasgow https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQWD-R26

Address: 70 Bridgegate, Glasgow/ Clyde

Rachel in 1861? Again, as transcribed:

John Mcpherson 40 quey lab b. Glasgow
Mary Mcpherson 39
...and 3 children
Rachael Golay 20 lodger, Fish Dealer De P Schedale(?) b. Glasgow
Margare McKess 20 lodger, Fish Dealer De P Schedale(?) b. Glasgow

Address: Laws Trout Land, Glasgow/ Clyde

Monica