Hi Masie NEWTON is between Cambuslang and Uddingston. It was a mining village and has a railway station. Ian ( still lurking on the list but inactive at present ) Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From: Maisie Egger via <lanark@rootsweb.com> Date: 20/04/2016 22:17 (GMT+00:00) To: LANARK@rootsweb.com Subject: [Lanark] Hillcoat queries Queries and answers, please. I must assume that 42 Parliamentary Road, Townhead, Glasgow, was a tenement building where my father’s great-grandfather James Hillcoat died. Parliamentary Road no longer exists as formerly, but I am assuming that #42 had to be near the Buchanan Street end. I cannot find on Google Little Downhill, Glasgow, where James Hillcosat was born 17 April, 1791. There is an upscale Downhill, but putting two and two together, James Hillcoat seems to have lived in more modest areas of Glasgow. At one time he and his wife Helen Young (31 Oct 1795-20 Dec 1867) lived at 62 Weaver St., Townhead, Glasgow, where Jenny Myers’ Keith (also a potter) also lived. Both James Hillcoat and Keith also lived in Rutherglen, where they worked in the pottery there. Two of James Hillcoat and Helen Young Hillcoat’s 11 children died at the age of 68 and 61 respectively in Rutherglen, within a month of each other long after James Hillcoat died (1857), so the assumption is that they, too, likely were potters in Rutherglen. James Hillcoat (son) b. 23 Aug 1825, Newton, Renfrewshire, d. 4 Dec. 1893 Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Thomas Young Hillcoat b. 1832 ?, s. 24 Nov. 1893 Rutherglen, unless I have the years of their deaths mixed up. I can’t find the district of Newton, only the rather upscale Newton Mearns, and so I wonder now if Newton goes by another name. Questions then: 42 Parliamentary Rd. a tenement? Where would Little Downhill be located? James jr. and Thomas Young Hillcoat died the same year 1893? Is/Was Newton a separate area from Newton Mearns? Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
There are Newtons and Newtowns all over Scotland. It's a common enough place name. The Newton between Cambuslang and Uddingston is in the parish of Cambuslang, not the parish of Mearns. I don't know for sure if Newto(w)n in the parish of Mearns is synonymous with Newto(w)n Mearns, but I would be very surprised if it isn't as it is unusual for there to be two places with the same name in the same parish. Anne From: ianrodney via <lanark@rootsweb.com> To: Maisie Egger <campsiehills@sbcglobal.net>; Lanark Rootsweb <lanark@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 23:09 Subject: Re: [Lanark] Hillcoat queries Hi Masie NEWTON is between Cambuslang and Uddingston. It was a mining village and has a railway station. Ian ( still lurking on the list but inactive at present ) Sent from Samsung tablet -------- Original message -------- From: Maisie Egger via <lanark@rootsweb.com> Date: 20/04/2016 22:17 (GMT+00:00) To: LANARK@rootsweb.com Subject: [Lanark] Hillcoat queries Queries and answers, please. I must assume that 42 Parliamentary Road, Townhead, Glasgow, was a tenement building where my father’s great-grandfather James Hillcoat died. Parliamentary Road no longer exists as formerly, but I am assuming that #42 had to be near the Buchanan Street end. I cannot find on Google Little Downhill, Glasgow, where James Hillcosat was born 17 April, 1791. There is an upscale Downhill, but putting two and two together, James Hillcoat seems to have lived in more modest areas of Glasgow. At one time he and his wife Helen Young (31 Oct 1795-20 Dec 1867) lived at 62 Weaver St., Townhead, Glasgow, where Jenny Myers’ Keith (also a potter) also lived. Both James Hillcoat and Keith also lived in Rutherglen, where they worked in the pottery there. Two of James Hillcoat and Helen Young Hillcoat’s 11 children died at the age of 68 and 61 respectively in Rutherglen, within a month of each other long after James Hillcoat died (1857), so the assumption is that they, too, likely were potters in Rutherglen. James Hillcoat (son) b. 23 Aug 1825, Newton, Renfrewshire, d. 4 Dec. 1893 Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. Thomas Young Hillcoat b. 1832 ?, s. 24 Nov. 1893 Rutherglen, unless I have the years of their deaths mixed up. I can’t find the district of Newton, only the rather upscale Newton Mearns, and so I wonder now if Newton goes by another name. Questions then: 42 Parliamentary Rd. a tenement? Where would Little Downhill be located? James jr. and Thomas Young Hillcoat died the same year 1893? Is/Was Newton a separate area from Newton Mearns? Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message