12 Blythwood Drive, Glasgow

[RedMystic]

Hi helpful Chatters.

Is there a directory that would reflect the names of the people living at 12 Blythwood Drive, Glasgow in 1918?

The surname I have on some Canadian military documents is that next of kin at that adddress is sister, Mrs. McNeil, but three months later another military document reflects brother McNeil McKinnon.

I would like to confirm the surname & their first names if possible.

Thanks in advance.

[gaucho]

Hi,
the valuation rolls at http://www.theglasgowstory.com/valindex.php might help.

[RedMystic]

Thanks very much gaucho.

Mr Google says that there is a Blyth(e)wood Drive in Glasgow, but can't seem to locate it in the valuation rolls. 

[Pels.]

Hi RM,

There used to be a Blythswood Drive, which is now known as Woodlands Drive according to this link :

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/info-streetschanged1.html

Pels.

[RedMystic]

TX Pels,

No joy. I can't seem to get that to pop up in the valuation rolls either.

PS Rhetorical question: why do communities change the names of streets anyway?

[Lodger]

As the city of Glasgow expanded at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries it absorbed surrounding Burghs, and so places like Partick, that had been a town in its own right, became a suburb of Glasgow.
Glasgow already had a John St, Bridge St, George St, Buchanan St etc; so the streets in Partick and Whiteinch with the same names were changed.
Bridge St became Partick Bridge St, George St became Medwyn St, Buchanan St became Chancellor St - and so on.

[RedMystic]

TX Lodger. I visited Glasgow for the first time this past summer & enjoyed it thoroughly! We took in Piping Live - it was FANTASTIC.

The lady I'm looking for was in Canada in 1909, but I'm thinking (given the next of kin address given in the military docs for her brother) that she MAY have returned to Scotland, married and settled in Glasgow; either that or there was another sister I don't yet know about.

[MonicaL]

Just some possibilities re 12 Blythwood Drive...

As Gaucho suggests, it does show on the Valuation Rolls (1913-14 is the only one available on line), see www.theglasgowstory.com/imageview.php?inum=TGSV15096  This is the main menu which includes all of Blythwood Drive in case people moved around (lots of people did around this time showing at one number and then another on the same street not much later) www.theglasgowstory.com/valsearch.php?search=99&what=&where=blythswood+

It also shows on the 1911-12 Post Office Directory www.archive.org/stream/postofficeannual191112gla#page/764/mode/2up Unfortunately, this is the last PO directory available on line with one exception, the 1927 Glasgow Directory (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/index-glas.htm).

Monica 

[sancti]

TX Lodger. I visited Glasgow for the first time this past summer & enjoyed it thoroughly! We took in Piping Live - it was FANTASTIC.

The lady I'm looking for was in Canada in 1909, but I'm thinking (given the next of kin address given in the military docs for her brother) that she MAY have returned to Scotland, married and settled in Glasgow; either that or there was another sister I don't yet know about.

What are the names of the possible sisters?