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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
OK so managed to find the institution. Just noticed a link to open the page in a different viewer. It was a Catholic girls orphanage in Gallowgate. Not quite sure how she came to be there if her mother was still alive. But at least I know part of her story. Thanks for help on this.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 12:28 GMT (UK)  »
So it says on the header County of Lanark reg district of Calton Enumeration Book for the Undernamed Institution and there's no name. When you flick onto the next header page it says To the Chief officer or person in charge of every prison poorhouse asylum charitable organisation or other public institution but it doesn't name it specifically. You'd think it should wouldn't you.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 11:36 GMT (UK)  »
Sancti I have had a look thanks for the link. It says it's a day industrial school but I think that obviously she would have been residing there. Can't see that she'd be travelling from Greenock to Glasgow of a day really. Do you think that children boarded there too? thanks

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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 11:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that will have a look at it.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 11:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that Skoosh. Is it the kind of place that a family would send a child on their own. Not really understanding why she is there and her family aren't thanks.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 11:12 GMT (UK)  »
hi, thanks for your reply. Can't find an address on there.  It is certainly an institution of some kind as it says so on front page. There are a number of girls there and they are referred to as Inmate/Scholar. They were from different places but mostly Glasgow. She wasn't with her parents who are registered on the census as living at an address in Greenock. She is 11 years old at time of census.

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Lanarkshire / Poorhouse Calton Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 12 January 21 10:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, wonder if anyone can shed a bit of light on this. After not being able to find my grandmother on the 1911 Census, I finally found her in Calton in Glasgow (she was born in Greenock) in what I think was a poorhouse. But when I look for the poorhouse in Calton I find there was a poorhouse on Clyde St but that seems to have been demolished prior to 1911. Does anyone know if there was a poorhouse in Calton and have any more info on that. thanks

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Renfrewshire / Re: Elizabeth Rodger, d 1857 Greenock poorhouse
« on: Friday 14 December 18 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
Sadly the records haven't survived. My grandfather spent time in Captain Street and I have been all around the houses on this. Records don't survive except as someone said earlier, for the asylum. But I do think it's worth checking there was no connection with another poor house like in Govan for example. I got some information for someone else who was there though they were resident in Greenock all of their lives. It's worth checking as those records have survived.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Birth of Unity Lynch
« on: Wednesday 20 September 17 22:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Hallmark for that example. So not much more to be gained though I guess that address is of interest. Worth getting then.

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