----- Original Message ----- From: <OldMapsNE@aol.com> To: <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 2:20 PM Subject: Re: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-D Digest V99 #598 > I have three questions that I hope someone can help me with ... > > I have this possible address for my great-great-grandmother Ann Cunningham > Craig (widow of Alexander Craig) in the late 1800s: 3 Newhall Street, > Barony, Lanark, Scotland ... When I go to Scotland next year, will I be able > to find this address? The Barony is basically the area of Glasgow which has been taken over by Strathclyde University. Even if the address exists, I would not look to see the original house. However a visit to the Mitchell Library will put you on the right track. Do not be disappointed however of the place where the house was is a road. > My great-grandfather James MacDougall Craig and his brothers and sisters were > baptised at the London Road United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, Lanark, > Scotland, between 1854 and 1865. I have been told that the church no longer > exists ... where would the records from the 1800s be now? Could anyone guess > where the present-day Craig family would be attending church? The records of the Church would be in the Scottish Archives. All Church records are supposed to be deposited there. If I may say so, speculation about where a family might be attending Church is a rather futile experiment. In the last 130 Years Glasgow has undergone tremendous social changes. (The changes in the last 60 have almost amounted to Glasgow reinventing itself) The Church itself will have undergone two changes of denomination, and at least one of name (I suspect that it was probably called London Road East before it closed). The community will have been redeveloped, and the family will probably have experienced social mobility. In the same way as the branch which you are connected to moved, so it is quite likely that the rest of the family moved. Assuming that they stayed in Glasgow they might be in one of the Peripheral Housing estates. Where would you expect your family to be in 130 years time? Edward Andrews St. Nicholas Buccleuch Parish Church Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland Visit our Web site http://www.btinternet.com/~stnicholas.buccleuch/index.htm