Hi Gordon, What a very interesting piece of family history. You are fortunate to be able to collect these snippets to add to your family's history. Is the Blythswood ship you mention - the one built 1875 Robert Duncan & Co Port Glasgow, Yard No 90 owner C.E. Wolf? I was trying to see if there was a photo online but no. Regards Eleanor In a message dated 1/16/2011 4:18:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com writes: Just as an aside, 330 Argyle Street (where the bottled drinks salesman's family were living in 1871) was in the Blythswood district of Glasgow. My great-grandfather William EVANS (b1830 New Brighton) was master of a Glasgow-built, Greenock-registered iron sailing-ship called BLYTHSWOOD in the 1880's, which plied between Liverpool and India. There are some photographs of her many years later, looking in a very sorry state, in a two-volumed book entitled "Shipping Wonders of the World: a saga of the sea in story and pictures," edited by Clarence Winchester (Amalgamated Press Ltd London). The photos appear in volume 1, in a chapter entitled "The menace of the derelict", the caption reading "Burnt out. A barque, the Lysglimt ex Pesca ex BLYTHSWOOD, drifting in mid-ocean after fire had caused her to be abandoned on May 4th 1921. This photograph was taken on May 25th 1921, but the derelict did not sink until July of that year. These pictures show how the flames had left nothing but a charred hulk,dangerous to shipping". Fortunately, I also have two photographs of her when (with great-grandad in charge) she was still in pristine condition. :-) Regards Gordon From: "Gordon Evans" <gordon.w.evans@btinternet.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >Hi Eleanor >In the 1871 Census :- >330 Argyle Street, Barony, Glasgow, Scotland >David TENNANT, 32, salesman of bottled drinks, b Lanarkshire Old Monkland >Mary, wife, 24, Renfrewshire Greenock >Margaret Barr, daur, 10, Renfrewshire Renfrew >Isabella, daur, 5, Lanarkshire Glasgow >James Archibald, son, 3, Lanarkshire Rutherglen >Best wishes >Gordon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message