Lived in Bridgeton...died?.....

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:38 am

Hi all,

I have a ancestor who lived in Bridgeton until at least 1914 where I can find him on the valuation rolls until 1937 at the most. His widow still lived at the same address in 1937 when she died. I can't find a death in that area for him. I suspect he died in hospital, or Bridgeton is deemed part of another registration district. Can anyone help me out with a hospital in that area, or alternative places to look for please? He died between 1914 and 1937, John Simpson born 1863. I already looked at one in Dennistoun, the other has a middle name which isn't his.

Nina

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:32 am

Hi Nina

Not an impossible task to a genealogist --just bloomin'difficult

The Royal Infirmary was/is the main general hospital in the quarter of the city toward the north east and admitted folk from most of the eastern side of the city.

Belvidere Hospital in the East end of Glasgow was initially a fever hospital but later handled all polio cases in the south-east of the city before becoming a general hospital.

Duke Street hospital was quite new in the early 1900’s and was a general hospital before various other bits were added on.

Try http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb73.html

These are all possibilities but the early part of the time period you are talking about includes WW1 when hospitals were crammed with war wounded and civilians sometimes ended up miles from what would normally have been their nearest hospital.

Glasgow folk are sociable beings and used the transport network to visit widely across the city and suburbs, so if they took ill they were admitted to the nearest hospital which could be miles away. I have several ancestors (my wife’s actually) where this happened.

You will have tried wildcards for your search I presume but remember Simpson can transmutate into Sampson/Samson too. We had a few of them as neighbours.

Russell

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue May 30, 2006 12:59 pm

Thanks for that information Russell. It turns out I was wrong and he died at 82 Main Street Bridgeton, his home address for years before, and instead of being registered at Bridgeton or Dennistoun as I had expected, it was registered at Calton.

Fortunately for me, he had a daughter that married not too long before his death in Calton, so I took a punt from my long list of John Simpson deaths, chose the one death entry for Calton, and got a hit. I feel like a detective sometimes...

Nina