Gauze Street Paisley

[melody]

Thankyou so very very much Nancy and Westender!
Er..Westender..actually the ones that I assume to have been buried in the Abbey churchyard were the Campbells.Sorry. John Campbell died in 1838, it was he and his family who lived on Gauze st. He was a shoemaker. Could I be cheeky enough to ask if you could look and to see if your source has a burial for him?
The Mcleans were a John and Margaret that went to Canada about 1822, and no sign of them on Scotlands People. But thanks for the Mclean info, I will make a note of it as it could turn out to be related to my search. Sounds like you have a great collection.

I first saw Paisley when I was waiting for a flight. I had no idea at the time that I would be tracing my dad's Campbells and mom's Mcleans back to this town, I just knew I wanted to come back. I loved walking about and chatting with the friendly people. I gazed at the stupendous war memorial for a long time. ( Looks like a crusader and WWI soldiers.)
Last time I was there I enjoyed the poetry on the pavements, brilliant.
Melody

[melody]

Tracey,
tried your suggestion, just the name this time, didn't select Paisley or anything else and presto! Had a good look at the residents of Gauze street.
Mel

[Rockford]

I loved walking about and chatting with the friendly people. I gazed at the stupendous war memorial for a long time. ( Looks like a crusader and WWI soldiers.)

Hi Melody,

More information about the war memorial here http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmems ... ic218.html Looks like your identification of the crusader was correct.

Best wishes

Brian

[Currie]

And here’s the lady who created it, with her angels. http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad28 ... lliams.jpg

After a quick look at the next/previous household names in 1841 FreeCen in relation to William Cross, Gilder, and comparing them to those in the 1838 directory I posted earlier I’m beginning to suspect that Paisley hadn’t by then adopted the odds one side and evens the other system.

In the directory there’s a William Kerr, an upholsterer, at 4 Gauze Street (up one stair) and what looks like the furnishing shop below. There’s James Cook, a manufacturer, who lives elsewhere, also Robert Cook & Co., silk manufacturers and David Dunbar, a boot and shoemaker. It sounds like a multi storey building with shopfronts.

In Fowler’s Directory of Upper Renfrewshire for 1830/31 there’s a John Campbell, boot and shoe manufacturer, at 4 Gauze Street. (p21) Note that there appears to have been another John Campbell by that trade in Paisley. There’s a Thomas Cockburn, an accountant at the bank, at the same address. The Union bank was at 1 Gauze Street as was the Paisley Building Society. Maybe that could be pinned down on a map. http://www.archive.org/stream/fowlersco ... 0/mode/2up

The Morning Post (London), Friday, February 18, 1831, has a report of a fire in a house in Gauze Street possessed by a Mr. Campbell, boot and shoe maker. It was copied from the Glasgow Courier. http://i944.photobucket.com/albums/ad28 ... t-Fire.jpg

The story was also carried in the Glasgow Herald, February 14, 1831, third column of page 2. They have given the street as George but that is probably an error. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=G ... =enthere’s

If you can’t print the Glasgow Herald page zoom right in and take a screenshot with the Print Screen key. Paste it into Paint or something more sophisticated and edit and print it from there.

Hope that’s interesting,
Alan

[melody]

Brian, Thanks for that link-interesting stuff .

Alan, Hope that's interesting? Is it ever!! Talk about "putting flesh on the bones" Thanks for all the great info.

Mel

[carlineric]

Hi Melody

To see a street plan of Paisley for 1857/58 go to http://geo.nls.uk/maps/towns/paisley/openlayers.html (you will have to zoom/pan). I am not sure how the numbering ran but from the the list of streets in the directory it appears that the numbers ran consecutively along one side rather that odds on one side and evens on the other. Bank Street is decribed as "south from 22 Gauze Street" (Abercorn Buildings) and Cotton Street as "south side of 23 Gauze street". Unfortunately the streets on the other side - Lawn, Silk and Incle do not have street numbers shown where they meet Gauze Street. Not sure where 1 was.

Eric

[carlineric]

ScotlandsPeople have released the 1911 census street indexes, although much later they may provide a clue to how the street was numbered. Gauze Street was divided into two enumeration districts - 67 covering 1-15 consecutively and 83 covering 17-33 consecutively. Looking at the ED numbers for the surrounding streets I would say 1-15 was the north side and 17-33 the south which corresponds with my earlier post and 1 was probably on the corner of Lawn Street and Gauze Street. The only problem is if you count the number of buildings it is greater than the street numbers. If you go to the B&W postcard page 1 of the Paisley Photographs website there is a photograph of Gauze Street taken from the corner of Lawn Street and Gauze Street.

Eric

[melody]

Thanks Eric!
I will be looking at all the things you have suggested, it's really appreciated!

[graham0105]

Hi Melody,
I've just found this site and a coincidence !
I can't help you with 4 Gauze Street in 1841, but my g/grandfather lived at 4 Gauze Street at the time of the 1851 Census. At the time he was listed as a "flesher". This was just before he came to Australia in 1852.
Cheers
Graham
Melbourne

[melody]

Thanks Graham!
Mel