Hate to pop your bubble, Ella, but I think the address should have been Little Dovehiil, so so much for my lot being refeened by living in Dowanhill, or even Downhill. The original Hillcoat in Newcastle had his own pottery business, and then his son hopped it over the border to Prestonpans or thereabouts and started up his own pottery business. 'Tons' of Hillcoats 'germinated' all over the globe to Australia, South Africa and here an there all over the U.K. The Hillcoat name died out with my father's forebear when she married a master journeyman potter who may have been fond of tipping the elbow as he died of excess spirits coma in Coatbridge at the age of 40, leaving 10 children behind. How on earth did they survive? I think I've made note of this before, but I live like a queen compared with them and even my Ma (but just ordinary compared to plain folks here where we live in California!) Maisie -----Original Message----- From: Ella K. Ross via Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:52 AM To: Archie Gilbert ; lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] Hillcoat queries Depends on how many you've had. Ella Ross born and bred in Glasgow. > On 21 Apr 2016, at 19:47, Archie Gilbert via <lanark@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I am no expert on Glasgow, Maisie, but I know of DOWANHILL area, which > early > everybody pronounces DOWNHILL missing the middle syllable. What do you > think > ? > > Archie Gilbert. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maisie Egger via > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 10:17 PM > 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 ------------------------------- 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