James Buchanan number 16 possible sweetshop

[MonicaL]

Just adding link to your new post on the photo restoration/dating board here on RC in case anyone wants to 'pop over' and see any updates on it! www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=740515.0

Monica 

[anne_p]

Late last night, I tried to post the death announcement from The Glasgow Herald for this man.
I was about to suggest that as he died at the Vicky, the chances are that he lived on the south side, but the forum had apparently crashed.

Clever RC. II see you found the family in Rutherglen!

Oddly, this man was born in Prestonpans, lived and died in Lanarkshire but his cremation took place in...DUNDEE !

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19620724&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

[ayrgenes]

As he died at the Vic in Dundee, would presume he was at his daughters maybe, as she is mentioned in the obit.

He lived in Castle St, R'glen when he owned shop there.

Davie

[scotmum]

https://rutherglenheritage.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/old-pictures-of-rutherglen/

and contact details for the library

http://www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/info/92/rutherglen_library/192/contact_details

always worth an email to them.

[anne_p]

Ayrgenes,
just shows that it was too late at night for me.
I didn't even notice that this man died at the Vic in Dundee and not the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow

[MonicaL]

From what other people show on family trees on a/try (found them later in the evening), James owned two shops on Main Street (locations not given) in Rutherglen. They left Rutherglen for Dundee area c. 1936, addresses given for them there from then. Some trees have him as opening a bakery there in Dundee around this time. Wife Susan died in 1940 in  Kirriemuir, Angus. James' death is given as being in 1962 (two addresses, likely one hospital and the other usual residence).

These family trees on a/try are really well put together with full details, original images and photos for many.

Monica

[Wilton Endeavour]

Thanks Monica and everyone else who is contributing. I have an Ancestry account and will follow those leads up. I have also written to Rutherglen library to see if anything comes up from that. Page 12 from the Glasgow Herald of 24th July 1962 contains the death. I did wonder how he got from Rutherglen to Dundee Monica, but I see your last posting explains that.

yours,
Wilton Endeavour

[ayrgenes]

oddly enough I had to pass through R'glen today, so took the chance to do a little walk. From the shop in Main St to the house on Castle St, then maybe his dairy? on King St....all within a couple of hundred yards of each other. Sadly nothing left of these premises.

Monica, is it possible the second shop was the dairy in King St?

davie

[DonM]

Don't think 225 King is the same individual.  Again, returning to the valuations this person was a roller.  And for those wondering, a roller was an upholsterer.  There is no dairy shown at 225 King contrary to what any directories say.  A John Johnston owned and operated a Dairy at 155 King but that was the only one on King St.  I looked at all Dairies 1895-1925 and he is not listed as owning or operating one.

I also see him in in Rutherglen with his parents and siblings in the 1891 Census his father James a Potter and his mother Isa plus a "bunch" of siblings.  At 17 he was a Grocer's Assistant so he started young.  There are likely many family member's out there.

Don