Thanks everyone!
I've not seen the Electoral Registers - that's definitely something to chase up.
I know about the Probate issue - however I've got no records for a George Davidson anywhere in my family tree.
From my notes, he moved into 1 Gladstone Place between 1871 & 1881 and remained there until 1904. His name is absent from the 1905 GPO records for that address. However I should check that his name isn't on a property elsewhere in Glasgow.
Regarding a middle name, it depends on who I think might be his father. This is what I really want to know. Searching through the online BMD records for London (Middlesex), brings up 2-3 possible candidates. However, when the search is based on a father born in Scotland who worked and died there and a son named William who was born there but moved to Glasgow as a late teenager, I can find only one match. That is a William Alexander Davidson, b 1828 in Shaftesbury Avenue and baptised at St Giles Cripplegate. Also, it helps that this father is a Cabinet Maker, born in Scotland and named William! The family appears complete in the 1841 Census (St George, Hanover Square), and parents only in the 1851 Census (St James, Westminster).
In all the Scottish records William Davidson (b1828) does not have/use a middle name. Also, back-calculating his age from the Scottish Census records gives a wide spread of ages.
Thanks again!
