Lochgilphead records.....

Asylums, Poor Houses and the like.

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Lauriemac
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Lochgilphead records.....

Post by Lauriemac » Tue Nov 29, 2005 12:27 pm

Hi All, Can any one tell me if there are inmate records available for the Asylumn at Lochgilphead, I have an ancestor who spent 38 years there and died in 1917. thanks, Laurie

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Re: Lochgilphead records

Post by DavidWW » Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:21 pm

Lauriemac wrote:Hi All, Can any one tell me if there are inmate records available for the Asylumn at Lochgilphead, I have an ancestor who spent 38 years there and died in 1917. thanks, Laurie
An email to Alastair Tough at Glasgow University Archives on A.Tough@archives.gla.ac.uk might give you the answer, or at least a referral to someone who can :!:

David

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Lochgilphead records

Post by Lauriemac » Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:57 pm

Hi david, thanks for that, a request is on it's way as I type. Lauriemac

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Re: Lochgilphead records

Post by DavidWW » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:10 pm

Lauriemac wrote:Hi david, thanks for that, a request is on it's way as I type. Lauriemac
The results awaited with interest for many members of TS !!

Thanks.

David

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Lochgilphead records

Post by Lauriemac » Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:17 pm

Hi David, No records are kept at the Glasgow Uni but Alistair sugested I contact Lochgilphead NHS record library, I now await a reply from them.

Laurie

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Post by AnneM » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:07 pm

Know this is slightly off topic but just to add that there are no extant records for the poorhouse in Lochgilphead.

Anne
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Researching M(a)cKenzie, McCammond, McLachlan, Kerr, Assur, Renton, Redpath, Ferguson, Shedden, Also Oswald, Le/assels/Lascelles, Bonning just for starters