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Renfrewshire / Re: Ardgowan Square Greenock
« on: Saturday 25 May 19 20:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi!

Have now done more research and think I have got a handle on the numbers and the people who lived on this square.

If you let me know your ancestor’s details, I will get back to at the end of the week with info and a pic of the house where I believed she worked.

Research currently hampered by local archive being partly in storage so can’t check local maps, valuation rolls nor sasines for final evidence but can at least point you to the right side of the square.

:)


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Renfrewshire / Re: Ardgowan Square Greenock
« on: Friday 17 May 19 23:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi!

Am trying to decipher the numbers at Ardgowan Square at the moment!

The 1873 PO directory shows retired shipowner A J (Archibald) Black living at 11: directories from 1881 to 1901 show him living at 16.  I think they only had one servant.

As several families lived on the Square for an extended period, it seems unlikely that they would all move around the Square over the same 10 year period so I would suggest the houses have been re-numbered since 1881.  They have again been renumbered since 1901.

I am currently thinking that today's No 11 or RAF Club was previously No 8 and was the home of W.J Marshall MD; earlier it was or he lived at No 16.  The census I looked at - 1891 I think - on Ancestry had quite a lot of occupants, and apart from Nos 1 and 5 (Mansion House and Tontine), this is the biggest house on the block.  And more than one servant.

Would be happy to know if anyone else knows how the numbers on this Square work!

:)

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Renfrewshire / Oakshaw boys home: records?
« on: Thursday 16 August 18 00:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi!

Does anyone know where I can access records for this training/industrial school for boys living there from about 1941?

Any help much appreciated.

:)

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United States of America / Re: James Cant Ferrier & Euphemia Clark
« on: Thursday 12 January 17 21:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Julie,

Have sent a personal message in reply.

:)

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Renfrewshire / Re: Scotts Shipyard Greenock
« on: Sunday 11 December 16 22:41 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I believe the Archive Department at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow also holds a lot of information about Clydebuilt ships.  You could also try the Riverside Museum which is the new version of the Transport Museum which has a lot of ship models and probably an archivist or historian.

:)

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Ayrshire / Re: Westwood, Monkton
« on: Saturday 10 September 16 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi Monica,

Yes, had a look at SP and saw valuation rolls only go to 1930.

As you suggest, a manual search is the way forward - either of valuation rolls or perhaps voters' rolls.  However, sometimes people use names for houses when voters' rolls list numbers...

If only our ancestors had been a bit more thoughtful and stuck to one or always used both!!

:)

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Argyllshire / Morrish School, Kilninian & Kilmore
« on: Saturday 10 September 16 20:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Have a place of birth in 1909 given as Morrish School Kilninian & Kilmore.

Place of registration looks like Anitrim or Auitrim.

Anyone got any idea where the school and the registrar's office was?

:)

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Ayrshire / Re: Westwood, Monkton
« on: Monday 05 September 16 14:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Monica,

for doing the search.  Unfortunately not my people who are claiming to be there 1933-1938 - so hopefully 1940.

Will have a look at the valuation rolls on SP and see if I can find them.

Not being familiar with them, would the rolls help narrow down where exactly the house was?

Thanks again
:)

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Ayrshire / Re: Westwood, Monkton
« on: Friday 02 September 16 13:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rosie,

Yes, tried google under name of house (?) and resident, online directories (but outwith dates of known occupation), looked at some old maps.

Think local knowledge - or a trip to Ayrshire archives to see if they have directories of 1930s - is the key to unravelling this one.  Or maybe voter's rolls or sasines.....

:)

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