Dear Ella, Archie, Jack et al, I found a few references to Little Dovehill on Google, but nothing on Little Dowanhill, Dowanhill itself being an upscale neighbourhood in Glasgow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowanhill http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3749445 http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CouncillorsandCommittees/viewSelectedDocument.asp?c=P62AFQ2UT1DNDXUT It then clicked that I recalled seeing perhaps a census where ‘somebody’ on the tree had an address at Little Dovehill, and it may have been James Hillcoat. As he was a potter (with 11 children), he likely was not a high income earner, and the fact that at times he lived in Weaver Street and Parliamentary Road, Townhead, would lead one to think that the street name was Little Dovehill and not Dowanhill (missing ’a’ or not in its pronunciation, depending on how ‘refeened’ one wanted to sound!). The social implications of 11 children and two parents, making a total of 13, living in cramped tenement conditions, make one ‘just get mad’ that the ‘authorities’ did not give a tinker’s rap for the living conditions of such families, until there would be an outbreak of this or that ‘fever.’ Still, it has taken Glasgow authority’s pedestrian mentality to ‘do’ something more recently (1960s on) about demolishing such tenements where so many small, medium or large families were cramped into such as a single end. (Glasgow at one time time having the (bad) reputation of having the worst housing in Western Europe.) There used to be a wonderful contributor on this list who came from the Gorbals. Two things stuck out in my mind about how she lived in Glasgow: There were fourteen in her family living in a single end. For the uninitiated that would mean one all-purpose room in a tenement where there would be a recess bed, one cupboard for dishes and suchlike, a ‘black lead’ iron cooking range and a cold water sink. Perhaps there might have been an inside w.c., if not. it would be shared by three or four other families on the landing. The second ‘wee story’ she shared was when her teacher made her stand on a chair to point out to the class what poverty looked like. Something out of Charles Dickens’ Victorian times? No, likely the early 1960s. We can question why there wasn’t better family planning, and why people who did not have two pennies to rub against the other would have such huge families, a question I put to my own mother who had eight children like clockwork 18 months apart. Her reasoning was that women did not have access to family planning/birth control ‘back then.’ Remember, too, that if a woman had an induced abortion it was a criminal act so off to the pokey! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11169176/Abortion-why-is-it-still-a-criminal-offence.html Back to Little Dovehill: I do believe that my forebear lived at this address at one time, his last address 42 Parliamentary Rd., perhaps a little more upscale than the Gallowgate address. More sleuthing to get the facts straightened out. Many thanks for the help . Maisie Paso Robles, California (living a lifestyle light years away from being born in a tenement room and kitchen in the ‘Toonheid!’ Not to mention the weather.)