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Hi,

I just wondering if anyone is going to be at the Mitchell any time soon and would have the time to check something for me. Its a Govan poor relief record which I have the date for.  If not, no worries.

Thanks

Robert

Hi,

Hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction. My maternal grandfather died in a road accident in 1969. His side of the family don't get on so getting info from family is hopeless. So I want to try to find out for myself.

Thanks to Google scanning the Herlad and Evening times I found the following written in the Evening Times on 31 April 1969:

"The cyclist, killed yesterday after his bicycle was in a collision with a car on the Kilsyth-Kirkintilloch road near Queenzieburn, Stirlingshire, yesterday, has been identified as Mr Arthur Parker (42), of 12 Spey Street, Riddrie, Glasgow who leaves a wife and six children. A Spokesman for Kilsyth Police said a report on the accident would sent to the procurator fiscal."

I am guessing that as a report was sent there was a chance of a court case but having trawled through 3 months worth of both papers (A long haul I can tell you!) can find nothing. So starting to give up on that route as it may not have gone to court, may not have been reported in the papers or in the tedium of trawling I may even have missed it and don't fancy retracing.

I did note though in the  NAS online catalogue these two items listed:

CS46/1971/869, Charlotte H Fullerton or Parker (Pursuer) v Iain Macrae (Defender): Expenses, 1971
CS258/1971/6355, Charlotte H. Fullerton or Parker and others v Iain MacRae: Damages, 1971

This was his wife and given the timing I am assuming it has something to do with his death. I can't get to the NAS and not even sure if those records would hold any information.

I am just wondering if anyone can suggest another path to look down. My main reason for this is to find out what happened. But to be honest also I carry the faint hope that it may have been reported in the papers with a photo as I have never seen what he looks like.

Any help appreciated,

Robert

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me if its the informant recorded on a death record who gives all the details relating to the deceased?

The reason I ask is I am looking at a death record of a man named Thomas in 1855. Being of this year there is a lot of information but the informant is a son-in-law and some of it looks incorrect. The one that is bothering me is his mother. to my knowledge by the time he died his wife and parents had already passed away. On the record rightly deceased is written below his father and wife but not mother which I find strange. There is a site that has a photo of the headstone for his mother reported as 1829 but I have not seen it yet. So I am wondering if the information is likely to be incorrect- if the details are provided by the son-in-law then he may not of have known either way.

Thanks

Hi Monica,

thanks for those. None look like a match but it did get me thinking which always helps. Now that the birth and death indexed to modern day are online I checked them for Bute- which I never thought to do before. That has helped as I have now found two of the children died there which could also mean those children, where married, had family there. I have more to go on now so will keep the search going.

Cheers

Robert