Location of Poor Records for Rutherglen

[Ann Baker]

Hi All

My Carroll ancestors moved to Rutherglen from Ireland sometime in the mid-1800s - am assuming around the time of the famine or soon after. I have no idea where in Ireland they were from. I have tho found the county and parish others in my tree of Irish origin through the Poor Law records in Paisley and am wondering if I may find similar in these records.

However I don't know where they are kept. Does anyone know?. (Am hoping I'll be able to fit a visit in on my next trip home)

Thanks

Ann

[Skoosh]

Ann, do they appear in the Poor Records of Glasgow at the Mitchell Library? Rutherglen has been in and out of Glasgow so a possibility!

Skoosh.

[Ann Baker]

Hi Skoosh

Thanks I had a feeling might be the Mitchell tho I have something in the back of my mind says South Lanarkshire's had gone somewhere else (Motherwell?)

Have just noticed they're open today so will give them a ring.

Best Wishes

Ann

[Ann Baker]

And mystery solved - They haven't survived but there may be something in the Parochial Board Minute books so deffo a trip to the Mitchell next time I'm home 

[Skoosh]

Aye Ann, they could have been in & out of Glasgow & made a claim sometime. At the Mitchell you actually get to look at the original records after searching the index, a great day out.

Good Luck!

Skoosh.

[Ann Baker]

All I have is census info for four children (tho I suspect there were more who maybe died young going by the gaps between them all) - latest one was born around 1847. Like a lot of folks who came to Scotland they worked down the pit. I have them in Rutherglen, Cambuslang and Blantyre and they didn't seem to move around a lot.

Dad (Patrick) died pre 1854 (Mum(Bridget) re-married then) and no death record. The church in Rutherglen where most of their BMDs took place is still there (St Collumkille's).

A real head scratcher