Alexander Hadden County Renfrew

[glennhadden]

Hi
Im looking for any info about ancestors of Alexander HADDEN and his wife Elizabeth Smith married on 09 June 1787 in Parish of Abbey ,Renfrew
their son Alexander Hadden was a bookseller in Glasgow

thank You for any help

[WilmaM]

Hi Glen, Welcome to TS.

A look at the IGI on family search shows a couple of those names having half a dozen children:
DAVID HADDAN Gender: Male Christening: 24 FEB 1789 Paisley, Abbey (Paisley), Renfrew, Scotland
ALEXANDER HADDAN Christening: 06 FEB 1791 Oakshaw East Associate Congregation, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
JOHN HADDAN Christening: 03 DEC 1797 Oakshaw East Associate Congregation, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
JAMES HADDAN Christening: 08 APR 1801 Oakshaw East Associate Congregation, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
MARGARET HADDEN Christening: 26 SEP 1802 Oakshaw East Associate Congregation, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland
JEAN HADDAN Christening: 05 MAY 1805 Oakshaw East Associate Congregation, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland


The marriage entry there is a submitted one, and Scotlands People does not have anything similar, so I wouldn't be too hard & fast on those details. Alexander's birth is an extracted entry with those parent names so is more reliable.

I did find Alex jnr in the 1841 census in Glasgow with some children, no wife, so presumably he was widowed then.
SP has a death in 1860's of an Alex H?dd?n born ~1790 if that is the bookseller then it should show his parent's names.

The era you are looking at is difficult, maybe a gravestone would yield more info.

[glennhadden]

Thank You very much
Any idea how I can find names of Alexander Hadden's Parents .Only thing I know is that he was married in 1787 Abbey Paisley and was living in Glasgow as of Census 1841 age 80 (Independent) with his daughter Jean

[Currie]

Hello Glenn,

You may not have this. See bottom of column 5, page 3, Glasgow Herald, Thursday, January 9, 1862. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=G ... page&hl=en

DEATHS. At 14 Taylor Street, on the 8th inst., Alexander Hadden, Esq., late bookseller, Glasgow.—Friends will please accept of this intimation.

They’re talking about your bookseller in “Memories of the Old College of Glasgow”, published 1927. http://www.google.com.au/search?tbm=bks ... 80&bih=840

“When John Stirling of Tillichewan, one of the foremost citizens of Glasgow, married Janet Bogle, they took up house in the first floor of Barr’s land; his sister Elizabeth was wife of Professor William Hamilton, and lived in the Professor’s Court. In my day Alexander Hadden had his bookshop at the north corner of College Street and High Street, and John Burnet, another bookseller, occupied the next shop. Hadden had a large stock and I picked up some curious things amongst heaps of old books which had not been disturbed for a generation. Burnet had nothing rare or curious, but he had an agent in London who searched for any out-of-the-way book that was wanted and was generally successful, and, what was still more satisfactory, his prices were reasonable.”

In the 1859-60 Glasgow Directory the John Burnet mentioned is at 181½ High Street, and John Hadden at 179.
http://www.archive.org/stream/postoffic ... 6/mode/2up

In 1849-50 John Hadden was at 179, John Burnet at 181, and Alexander Hadden at 181½. http://www.archive.org/stream/postoffic ... 6/mode/2up

There’s lots of Glasgow Directories here, maybe there’s a clue hidden in one of them. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query ... xts&page=1

All the best,
Alan