Campbell Street - Glasgow.

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings from NZ.

Another example of what research can turn up in the most unlikely of places. Sir John Logan CAMPBELL [a good Scott] is regarded as a Founding Father of Auckland New Zealand, so many Roads/Streets in the Boroughs of greater Auckland were named in honour of him. Then with amalgamation of the Boroughs, into an ever increasing greater Auckland, street name rationalization has occurred.

This weekend I was researching one such street’s history, with the aid of our Papers Past search site, when this GLASGOW UK, Campbell Road clip [A Epidemic of Crime], was found, as one of the clippings selected, when using Campbell Street, as my search subject, over just four Auckland publications from the 1840’s to the 1930’s.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... llStreet--

Happy hunting.

Alan SHARP.

[Currie]

Hello Alan, very interesting.

The case of Matricide reported in the Auckland Star was reported in much more detail in the Glasgow Herald. For the record, the victim was a widow, Mrs. Jane Marshall or Paterson, 61 years of age, a native of Dalry, where her husband, until his death eight years previous, had been a mining contractor. The son charged with the offence was Hugh Livingstone Paterson, aged 21. He pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.

The initial report - The Glasgow Herald - Jul 29, 1889
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2W ... %2C2754274

The Trial - The Glasgow Herald - Oct 17, 1889
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2G ... %2C6740497

All the best,
Alan

[Alan SHARP]

Greetings Alan.

As all the surnames you have mentioned, have had some connection, over the last 200 years, with our SHARP lines, hopefully this incident is not a dark chapter, in one of those families history.

Out of curiosity was there also a "Mail" masthead in Glasgow at that time, as quoted in the Auckland Star, news of home filler, that I started with ?

Alan SHARP in Kiwi Land.

[Currie]

Hello Alan,

According to the Otago Witness there was the Glasgow Weekly Mail and the Glasgow Daily Mail, making a profit of ₤16,000 a year in 1890. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... --1----2--

The Glasgow Daily Mail referred to seems to have actually been called the North British Daily Mail at that time. http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/eyrwho/eyrwho1225.htm

All the best,
Alan

[Alan SHARP]

Thanks mate.