Address in Glasgow

[ladybird]

Hi folks
I have a birth registered 1858 at
13 Summers St, Mile End, Glasgow.
I can't find it on any maps, does anyone have any ideas please.
Also was it a house (or a home for unmarried mothers maybe?)
Sylvia

[nelmit]

Hi folks
I have a birth registered 1858 at
13 Summers St, Mile End, Glasgow.
I can't find it on any maps, does anyone have any ideas please.
Also was it a house (or a home for unmarried mothers maybe?)
Sylvia

Hi Sylvia,

Don't know about No 13 in 1858 but Summer Street is still there today in Glasgow's East End.

You can see it at www.multimap.co.uk

I had another look now that I have more time and I found it at

www.nls.uk Glasgow Town Centre Plan 1857 - 8 sheet VI. 15.4. (I'm afraid I'm not as good as Andrew P at describing these locations.)
Annette M

[JustJean]

Hi Sylvia

Just a few references that maybe you can link something together from.....

According to the 1881 census there are a handful of people stating they were born "Mile End, Glasgow" and then in a separate search there are 11 families enumerated at 13 Summer Street, Barony. Not sure if this might be the same address by then......

A neat site of Glasgow Streets found here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.ada ... Calton.htm

shows that:

WEST STREET (Calton) formed the western boundary of the lands which lay between Mile-end and Broomward.


CHARLES STREET (Mile-end), named after a former East-end proprietor. There was a close or entry in the locality that was known as Charley's Close, and it latterly had an unenviable notoriety from being the haunt or gathering-place of the roughs of Calton and Bridgeton. Who Charley was history sayeth not, but when be departed this life it was found that he had left a legacy to the East-enders in the shape of a small green which was to remain an open space for ever, but the little oasis has been utilised by a railway company, who have not given an equivalent.

and a quote taken from a history of Calton found here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.ada ... Calton.htm

quote
Although Mile-end formed no part of Calton the Magistrates of that burgh obtained police jurisdiction over the village and lands of Mile-end in 1819.

endquote

Best wishes
Jean

[ladybird]

Oh dear doesn't sound like a very salubrious district does it
Sylvia