Tracing family roots

[D_P_Miller]

Since I first asked if anybody could help me with my Craigneuk Miller family information the response has been great. Some of the detailed information provided makes me think that some others in the wider Miller family has been compiling their own family tree. I would love to make contact with them to exchange family information. Be great if you get in touch DM
PS. Monica's input has been very helpful

[Lodger]

Below is a list of eight interments in the Dalziel Parish cemetery in Motherwell, usually called the Globe cemetery. All 8 are interred in public ground, sometimes called common ground. In other words, they had a pauper's burial. Some had the AR spelling of Millar, while some had the ER spelling, I have transcribed them all here as MILLAR, for consistency. All dates are of interment, you can probably knock off 2 days to get the exact date of death.
They may help fill in some blanks in your family tree.

MATTHEW THOMSON MILLAR. 15 Cowie's Square. Aged 9 months.
Parents - Archibald Millar & Isabella Paterson.
28th December 1876.

JOHN MILLAR. Craigneuk. Aged 8 months.
Parents - Archibald Millar & Isabella Paterson.
24th November 1880.

WILLIAM PATERSON MILLAR. Craigneuk. Aged 8 months.
Parents - Archibald Millar & Isabella Paterson.
26th March 1887.

STILLBORN CHILD MILLAR. 201 Windmillhill Street. (Motherwell).
Parents - John Millar & Isabella Gardner.
27th March 1890.

ALEXANDER MILLAR. Craigneuk. Aged 1 year.
Parents - Archibald Millar & Isabella Paterson.
2nd December 1891.

ARCHIBALD MILLAR, miner. 216 Craigneuk. Aged 63 years. Married.
Parents - James Millar & Ellen Thomson.
25th December 1897.

ALLAN MILLAR. 9 McDonald's Land, Craigneuk. Aged 1 year.
Parents - James Millar & Isabella B. Gardner.
16th October 1900.

MATTHEW THOMSON MILLAR. Burnside's Land, Craigneuk. Aged 13 months.
Parents - James Millar & Isabella Gardner.
19th August 1902.

A "Land" here in Scotland referred to a "land of houses", usually but not always, a tenement building (of various sizes). Mostly they were named after the proprieter, in this case - McDonald and Burnside.

[D_P_Miller]

Further research of my Miller family has led me to Baillieston previously in Old Monklands parish. I found a Lees family connection address given c.1850 as Lawson Land Baillieston.
So far I have been unable to locate Lawson Land (or Row) amid hundreds of pit rows houses that are shown in Baillieston maps between 1850 to 1900.
Has anyone any information or suggestions on how I can find this information?
PS. Although I was born and brought up in Motherwell, by pure coincidence, I now live in Garrowhill which caused a lot of Old Baillieston to disappear when it was built.

[Forfarian]

Can you find them in the 1851 census on FreeCEN www.freecen.org.uk? Once you have found them, you can click on the next or previous household and build up a list of the neighbouring addresses which may help to home in on the one you are looking for.

[sancti]

The only Lees in Old Monkland on 1855 V.R.'s is

LEES
PETER
TENANT
HOUSE BAILLIESTON
OLD MONKLAND
1855
VR010700002-

You would need to view the page to see the names of adjacent properties and then try to identify them on map[s