> The question > I  have now is, why would > there be  2 Gardner Streets in the same city; > the  one in Partick and the > one now named St. Peters.  They may have been in different districts, or different parishes. It's not uncommon to have duplication of street names in large cities. Ask any London cabbie! In fact the likelihood is that the change to St Peter's Street was made precisely because there were two streets with the same name and the city fathers wanted to prevent future confusion. Anne