Descendants of James THOMPSON

Notes

2. William THOMPSON

Marriage: From Origns -
Mariage
SM F MCLAY ANNIE
To
THOMSON JAMES
1884

Marriage: District: Partick
County: Lanark

Marriage: GRO COdes:
1: 646
2:3
5:0132

Annie MCLAY

BIRTH: Found the following entry in LDS:

BIRTH: Ann Gilfillan MCLAY   
Sex:F  

Event(s):
Birth:  11 Jun 1868  
Airth, Stirling, Scotland  
Parents:
Father:    
Mother:  Anderson_ MCLAY  
Source Information:

BIRTH: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Batch number:  Dates  Source Call No.  Type  Printout Call No.  Type  
C1146931868-1875  6035516 REGISTER   Film  NONE     
Sheet:

5. Joseph THOMPSON

Potential Birth districts
ST ROLLOX GLASGOW   
PARTICK

Imigration: From ships log:

Imigration: Staying with Uncle William Fleming in Windber PA.

8. Alex THOMPSON

Map of 44 Cook Street Glasgow

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Died at Cresson Sanatorium of black lung.
Lived in Merryflatts Poor Law Institution from 6/8/1904 - 5/2/1908
Came to USA April 1910
Naturalized on April 14 1942

From http://www.tartans.com/articles/children1b.html

In the bigger towns there arose over time some substantial "Poor Houses" such as the Edinburgh Charity Workhouse which in 1778 could house 480 adults and 180 children, A further workhouse was built in Edinburgh's West Kirk in 1761 and another in 1861. The popular perception continued to be that admittance to a poor house was a shameful last resort. But the bigger cities, such as Edinburgh and Glasgow actually took pride in their modern buildings. The Parish of Govan in Glasgow, for example built and ran a poorhouse at Merryflattswhich accommodated 2000 persons.

After 1845, the responsibility for looking after the poor passed from the Church of Scotland to Parochial Boards. Thereare surviving records for some of the boards and of some individual poor-houses,and these records can provide much genealogical information: ages, birthplaces,previous addresses, names of parents, names of dependants, marital history andreligious denomination, as well as the reason for application for relief. Placesfor which good records survive include Ardrossan in Ayrshire, Clydebank, Glasgow (including the Barony and Govan), Kilmarnock, Motherwell and Paisley