Hullo Walter, Hamilton Home Farm Rows was not a village, Hamilton being one of the bigger towns in Lanarkshire. The population in 1856 was 9,620 but by 1891 this had rapidly increased to 24,863. Rows were just that, a long building usually built in parallel rows broken up into single or at most, two room units. Miners' Rows were almost always owned by the colliery & as such were tied housing, miners often moved from pit to pit & this would necessitate "flitting" (packing up their scanty belongings in handcarts & moving). One miner's wife when asked about the spartan look of her hoose & it's meagre contents, remarked "Och but it's easier tae flit when ye dinnae hae mony things!" I'm not sure of the exact location of Home Farm Rows, but there were substantial numbers of miners' rows spread across the whole area, the principle pits there being the Udston Colliery & the Bent Colliery. Other pits in the Hamilton area were, Allanshaw Colliery, Allanton Colliery, Eddlewood Colliery, Auchinraith Colliery, Barncluith Colliery, Clyde Colliery, Earnock Colliery, Ferniegair Colliery, Fairhill Colliery, Greenfield Colliery, Cadzow Colliery, Quarter Colliery, Ross Colliery, and a wee bit further afield the collieries of Blantyre, Bothwell & Motherwell, so as you can see, Hamilton probably wasn't quite a quaint wee mining community. I'm unaware of any records surviving from the mines in this area, but I'm aware of extensive company records belonging to William Baird & Company (Coalmaster) being held at the Glasgow City Archives. Perhaps any listmembers belonging to the Hamilton & District Family History Society might be better informed about surviving records. Cheers Jim Rouse Tasmania <>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<> Och, whit a fankled web we weave, when furst we practice tae conceive! <>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<> [email protected] my genealogy hamepage: http://homepages.go.com/~seimi/genes.html <>============================================================<>