Place called Aitkinhead

[brimarge]

I have just downloaded a 1894 birth cert and the address is hard to read.

It looks like 35 Old Single Row, Aitkinhead. The district is Bothwell in Lanark, is there such a place. The father was a coalminer

Brian

[prophetess]

There is Aitkinhead Road in Uddingston
Aitkenhead Ave, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire
Aitkenhead Rd, Chapelhall, Airdrie, Lanarkshire

on the Google Maps
http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/234.html
also meantions Aitkinhead
it also gives mention to the houses which might help

Sybil

[sancti]

I think Aitkenhead was around Bargeddie, between Coatbridge and Baillieston.

[still_looking]

on the older maps there is mention of aitkinhead near bredisholm colliery, no mention of the old single row but then the map could predate it being built

this is north of uddingston

http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html

click on maps

zoom in to glasgow until you can see it and coatbridge, zoom in on the middle of the orange road going south from bargeddie

click on historic (if it comes up in colour then zoom in further), if you can see nackerty look north, if you can see kirkwood oil works and colliery look south

[brimarge]

Thanks everyone this information pins down the location precisely, there is an "Old Row" mentioned though not "Old Single Row"

Brian

[hemmy]

If it is the Aitkenhead in Uddingston, as far as I know, it is the area of Aitkenhead Road, where Caterpillar works used to be.

[colvin]

Sounds like Aitkenhead Road, Uddingston (also known locally as Nackerty Road).   There was a single row of miners' cottages there, a pub and a little store, nothing much else.   I think the colliery was the Nackerty Colliery, though I can't be sure.    This is in the parish of Bothwell.   I walked past those miners' cottages many time during my childhood and my parents used to chat with the residents.   The miners' row was demolished in the 1950s.

Colvin

[mulholland63]

This is interesting. I just traced my great, great grandparents also to Single Row, Aitlkenhead. Interesting also is the mention of Knackerby because that is where my mum always said she was from. Near Coatbridge/Motherwell area. Coal mining village I think.

[mulholland63]

Sorry, Knackerty I meant. It was 57 Single Row, Aitkenhead to be precise and the Death of (Patrick Leonard, Coal Miner) was registered at Bothwell in the County of Lanark in July 1893.