If you go on to the NLS map link to this 1912 Ordnance Survey map and follow the main road east from Bellshill to where is crosses the Caledonian Railway - you will find Newhouse Smithy - Newhouse Farm is not identified but this is where it would have been. http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/view/?sid=74488695 Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: <njs827@aol.com> To: <driegel38@yahoo.com> Cc: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:22 PM Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fwd: Scott - Pollock > > > Dorothy, > If you inspect the death register for John SCOTT, you will find that Iain > was exactly correct. It records John as a farmer, spouse to Mary Richard > POLLOCK, who was found dead on 10 Feb 1914 at Newhouse Farm, Newhouse, > District of Holytown in the County of Lanark. > > His parents are recorded as John SCOTT (farmer, deceased) and Elizabeth > Scott (Maiden Surname BAIRD, deceased). You can obtain the digitised > image of the original register online at scotlandspeople.gov.uk. > Nancy (Connecticut, USA) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Iain Hutchison <iain@keapub.fsnet.co.uk> > To: Dorothy Riegel <driegel38@yahoo.com>; DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 2:56 pm > Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Scott - Pollock > > > This may just be coincidence because there are undoubtedly a few Holytowns > bout, while the name Newhouse is not exactly novel. > However there is a Holytown a little to the east of Bellshill in > anarkshire, and a little bit further east is Newhouse which now has an > ndustrial estate and is beside the M8 motorway. > This might be the location of your Newhouse Farm, Holytown. > Then again, it might not. > Iain > > ---- Original Message ----- > rom: "Dorothy Riegel" <driegel38@yahoo.com> > o: <DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com> > ent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:48 PM > ubject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Scott - Pollock > > I have a funeral card for John Scott who died suddenly on 10 February > 1914, > ged 35 years, at Newhouse Farm, Holytown. His wife was Mary Pollock. > oes anyone have any connection to either John or Mary? > may be on the wrong list as I don't know where Holytown is. > hank you for your time. > orothy (Wood) Riegel > > Dorothy Riegel > ------------------------------- > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > UMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > he quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > he message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >