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Thanks for that great link. Brilliant pictures, some of buildings that no longer exist.

On page 47 is picture of Pinel Lodge, Murthly - I lived in a flat for some years there after the building was converted in 1989. The grass area in front had been a croquet lawn for patients & staff. The site is now called Druid's Park [there was a stone circle in the grounds of the main house]; the main building was demolished apart from one facade, some buildings converted & many 'executive' houses have since built.

Pinel Lodge was built in 1894 [according to a metal downpipe on our flat!!] I have a postcard showing the main hospital building in the late 1910s when it was used as a military psychiatric hospital. Local people talked about it always being a peaceful place when still used as a hospital [I believe the site was sold by the Health Authority to a developer in about 1980].

I found it by chance, I was Googling for info on the Northern Infirmary in Inverness and found that.

There are so many of these old buildings that have become flats, I've found quite a few places where my ancestors have lived are now blocks of flats

Thanks guys, I'll maybe try both.

In the meantime I did manage to find one of the ones I was looking for in the Annual Directory 1853/54 for Glasgow online  , I found some of them by accident via google, the only trouble is they're not all there, like the previous one , but the ones that are there may useful for others, if you google: Full text of "The Post-Office annual Glasgow directory" you'll get a list of the ones on Archive.org

Thanks S_L

It's certainly worth me asking the NA about it, I'll not hold out too much hope on finding info on individuals, but maybe something on what premises were there.

Thanks Shirl & John     VERY much appreciated.

I'm thinking now, her parents probably aren't too far away from Manchester then...

There weren't a lot of RC in that area    In which denomination did he marry?

Have you thought that Alexander might well be the grandfather, Alexander Urquhart, and he gave this name to avoid embarrassment . I have instances in my family where the grandfather's name was used in place of father's when the person was illegitimate 

I've been looking for possibles ARs on the 1841 but I've also been looking for Charles Rosses as I don't see any Charles in the Urquhart line.


Gadget

Charles was Protestant as was him wife and future generations, as far as I know so far were all Protestant as well, I checked RC because of the lack of success elsewhere.

Occupation; the references I find Googling the term "Pattern designer" around that period seem to relate to the Textile industry.  Having said that, if someone makes metal patterns someone would have to design them?

The Scotland's People Website doesn't have the option of searching by occupation.  Maybe with the site being pay-per-view, it might be worth taking a day out to go to the Scotland's People Centre in person and trawl through as many death recs. as I can.

The name given the seemingly unusual (or at least specific) occupation, they would know something about the father?