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

Spoken like a true Scot Ella! Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Ella K. Ross via Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:52 PM 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 > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus