Tuesday 30 October 2012

Tuberculosis - "the captain of all the men of death"


Tuberculosis was perhaps one of the greatest single causes of death, particularly in young people, from the early 1800's right up until the 1960's. Bunyan described it as the "captain of all the men of death". 

Tuberculosis is part of the social and economic history of the working people of the towns and cities of Scotland and tells us much about their living and working conditions. It was a disease of overcrowded housing, poverty and malnutrition.

Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active infection cough and sneeze. The classic symptoms of  an active infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputumfevernight sweats, and weight loss (the latter giving rise to term "consumption").

Glasgow had the highest death rate from pulmonary tuberculosis in Britain (25 per 1,000 of population). In 1957 an intensive five week campaign was launched to identify TB carriers in the city. Thirty-seven mobile radiography units manned by volunteers visited housing schemes, offices and factories with the initial aim of X-raying 250,000 people. However, intense media coverage and a weekly prize draw from the names of those who came forward helped raise the number of screenings to nearly 715,000.

The Glasgow campaign led to a significant reduction of the incidence of the disease and became the model for campaigns in other British cities.

Wednesday 24 October 2012

Agnes Coulter (1859 - 1881)

Agnes, daughter of Joseph Coulter and Eliza Jane Barron, was born at 4 Newfield Lane, Glasgow on the 9th March 1859. In 1871 she was living with her parents and siblings at 38 St James Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. In 1881 she was living with her parents and siblings at 32 Tower Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow.  She was employed as a biscuit packer.

She died aged 22 from Pulmonary Tuberculolis (Phthisis) and exhaustion at 32 Tower Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 13th July 1881.

Sources:
Statutory Register of Births GROS Data 644/09/0329
Statutory Register of Deaths GROS Data 646/01 0797
Scottish Census: 1871, 1881

Friday 19 October 2012

Is there a Coulter tartan?

I got asked this question by an American (by which I mean USA citizen) visitor. My off the cuff answer was - these days there is a tartan for just about anyone who wants one! Continuing with my cynical response I went on to point out (no to rant) that tartan was a comparatively modern day invention by 19th and 20th century weavers and city merchants designed to make a profit from the gullible - that it is the stuff of the imaginings of a romantic writer (Sir Walter Scott), an English King of German descent (King George IV) of shortbread tins and garishly clothed dolls.

When George IV visited Scotland in 1822 Scott persuaded him to take part in a plaided pageantry in which he would star as a Stuart Prince and Jacobite Highlander - and so in July 1822 the bloated monarch placed an order with George Hunter & Co of London & Edinburgh for £1,354 and 18 shillings worth of highland outfit in garish red tartan (later known as Royal Stuart), complete with gold chains and assorted weaponry including a dirk, sword and pistols.

I can say this with certainty - if you are a Coulter, your ancestors were Lowlands Scots or Ulster Scots. They were not of the highland clans (Celts) with whom plaid twill (tartan) is traditionally associated in Scotland. That is not to say that the weavers of the lowland Scotland did not weave simple plaids that were associated with districts - or with Jacobean protest against the Union of Parliaments.

When King George III repealed the Act of Proscription of the Highland Garb in 1782 and made it legal to were tartan again little would he have guessed that he was about to create a Scottish icon. A Scottish humourist once observed that when a Scotsman leaves his homeland his skin immediately becomes tartan. The truth is that for the many thousands of Scots who have left these shores (and there is an estimated 50 to 60 million of us around the globe), tartan represent not just home, but a notion of shared culture and values and pride in being a Scot. In my book there is nothing wrong with that! The fact that tartan, along with whisky, has not only become a great Scottish icon but is worth an estimated £350 million to the Scottish economy makes it worth setting aside my cynical tendancies.

But here is the rub - there is no such thing as a Coulter tartan!

Ok - to contradict myself - there is a Coulter tartan if you really want one - and I confess to having a kilt and all of the bits and bobs that go with it (picture to follow).

If you are a Coulter there are three district tartans you could wear:

Galloway Hunting: This was my choice - I have lived and worked  in Galloway for most of my life - and this plus the fact that it is also my mother (whose maiden name was Heron) tartan, made the choice a "no brainer". The version below with the yellow line changed to white is produced commercially by both Lochcarron and Ingles Buchan (Textiles). The designer, John Hannay, was a chiropodist living in London and said that this 'everyday tartan' was in four shades of green with a yellow and red stripe. It was woven by Cree Mills of Newton-Stewart with only two shades however and the yellow line was replaced with a white.
Galloway - Hunting (Hannay, John pre 1939) ITI No 1467
Galloway Red - Dress Tartan: One of samples in the Scottish Tartan Society's collection (the MacGregor-Hastie Collection) shows this sett with the narrow stripes of green, red, white and blue. The more usual version uses four threads for the green and the yellow (white in this version). This variation in which the yellow line changed to white is produced commercially by Lochcarron, Ingles Buchan and Moffat Woollen Mill.
Galloway - Dress. (Hannay, John 1950)  ITI No 843
County Down - Irish District TartanOne of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These are not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but have apparently proved popular and no doubt in time will be accepted as genuine District rather than Fashion tartans.
County Down - Irish District Tartan. ITI No 2266
It would appear that a Coulter family commissioned D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk to design two "personal" tartans. I guess they wouldn't object to other Coulters wearing these tatans.

Coulter Tartan. ITI No 3585

Coulter - Dress Tartan. ITI No 4142


Thursday 18 October 2012

Thomas Coulter (1856 - ?)

Thomas, son of Joseph Coulter and Eliza Jane Barron, was born at 4 Newfield Lane, Tradeston, Glasgow on the 2nd December 1856.

In 1881 at the age of 24 Thomas was living with his parents at 32 Tower Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow.

Thomas married Margaret Hamilton McCabe, daughter of Thomas McCabe and Margaret Hamilton, at Eastwood Manse, Eastwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland on the 8th April 1885. He was employed as a driller at a shipyard.

Thomas and Margaret had two (?) children: Margaret Hamilton Coulter (1884 - ?), and Mary Coulter (1886 - 1886).

In 1891 Thomas was living with Margaret (29) and his daughter Margaret H (6) at 80 Stanley Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. He was employed as an Iron Driller. By 1901 the family had moved to 122 Henderson Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Thomas was employed as an Iron Buffer and his daughter Margaret, now aged 16, as a rope worker.

Sources:
1. Statutory Register of Births GROS Data 644/09 1314
2. Statutory Register of Marriages GROS Data 562/00 0041
3. Scottish Census: 1881, 1891



Robina Coulter (1868 - 1902)

Robina, daughter of Joseph Coulter and Eliza Jane Barron, was born at Stobos Front Landing, St James Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 6th May 1868. She died aged 33 from Broncho Pneumonia at 77 McLean, Govan, Glasgow on the 12th March 1902.

In 1871 she was living with her parents at 38  St James Street (front landing), Kinning Park, Glasgow. In 1881 Robina was living with her parents at 35 Tower Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow.

Robina married John Smith, son of  John Smith and Margaret Donachie, at 6 Cecil Place, Paisley Road West, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 9th July 1886. John was born around 1865 in Ireland. His father was a contractors carter.

Robina and John had six children

1. Martha Coulter Smith (1887 - ?)
2. Margaret Coulter Smith (1890 - ?)
3. Emily Smith (1891 - ?)
4. John Smith (1891 - ?)
5. Joseph Coulter Smith (1894 - 1958)
6. Samuel Coulter Smith (1897 - 1898).

Margaret and Emily were born in Sweden.

At the date of her marriage to John Robina was employed as a biscuit packer.

In 1901 Robina was living at 42 Cornwall Street along with John (35), her daughters Martha (13), Emily (10) and sons John (9) and Joseph (6). John Snr was employed as a biscuit baker.

John was alive when Robina died in 1902.

After Robina's death (and presumably also John) Martha, Margaret, John and Joseph lived with their Aunt Martha. The 1911 Census records them living at 72 West Street, Kingston, Glasgow along with their Aunt Martha and her husband Archibald C Buchanan.

Sources:
1. Statutory Register of Births GROS Data 646/01 0377
2. Statutory Register of Marriages GROS Data 646/01 0050
3. Statutory Register of  Deaths GROS Data 646/01 0900
4. Scottish Census: 1901, 1911

Samuel Coulter (1865 - ?)

Samuel, son of Joseph Coulter and Eliza Jane Barron, was born at Stobos Front Landing, St James Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 17th August 1865.

He married Annie Ford, daughter of Michael Ford and Jane Cameron, at 1 Cornwall Sreet, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 3rd April 1889.

Sources:
1. Statutory Register of Births GROS Data 646/01 0654)
2. Statutory Register of Marriages GROS Data 646/01 0027

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Kinning Park & Tradeston - The Streets Where We Lived

Below is a map of Kinning Park showing many of the streets where my family lived.  These are listed below the map. (Many street names in Glasgow have changed over time - particularly when the Burghs of Govan & Kinning Park were incorporated into Glasgow City. A record can be found on line at Glasgow Guide. On line maps can be found at the National Library of Scotland website.


1. Cornwall Street (No's 46,48 and 50)

Located to the east of Kinning Park and running south to north onto Paisley Road West.

2. Eaglesham Street

3. Henderson Street (No 104) (Became Howwood Street)

Shown on the map, but as Howwood Street, it ran south off Scotland Street to the east of Scotland Street School.

4. Lambhill Street (No 133)

Located to the east of Cornwall Street and running south to north onto Paisley Road West.

5. Merryland Street, Govan

6. McLean Street (No 38)

7. Newfield Lane, Tradeston

8. Ritchie Street, Tradeston (No 6)

9. Rutland Crescent

First road west of The Angel between Paisley Road West and Govan Road.

10.  St James Street (Stobos Front Landing) (No 38 front landing)

Now Seaward Street. Runs parallel to Shields Road, crossing Scotland Street north to its junction with Paisley Raod.

11. St James Terrace

Not shown on the map, but was located at the southernmost end of St James Street (Seaward Street) between St James Street and the Harbour Branch of the Caledonian Railway.

12. Stanley Street (Nos 80, 114)

Runs north from Vermont Street, crossing Scotland Street, to its junction with Paisley Road West.

13. Tower Street (No 35)

Off Lambhill Street, south of Milnpark Street.

14. Vermont Street (Nos 32, 34)

To the south of and running parallel with Scotland Street west from Seaward Street.

15. Watt Street

Located east of Shields Road and running south to north between Scotland Street and Paisley Road.

16. West Street (No 72)

Joseph Coulter (1863 - 1880)

Joseph, son of Joseph Coulter and Eliza Jane Barron, was born at 15 Anderson Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 7th April 1863. He died from pulmonary tuberculosis, aged 17, at 68 St James Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 11th April 1880.

Sources:
1. Statutory Register of Births - GROS Data 646/01 0244
2. Statutory Register of Deaths - GROS Data  644/14 0166

Saturday 13 October 2012

Occupations - The Jobs We Did

1. Brass moulderA person who moulds, founds or casts brass. Most brass moulders would have worked in the brass foundries of the shipyards on the Clyde. Here they would have cast the parts of red copper and bronze used in shipbuilding. 

2. Hammerman - A person who operates a hammer e.g. in a blacksmiths, or shipyard, or a steam hammer in a foundry.


3. Steam Crane Driver


4. Biscuit Baker


5. Domestic Servant


6. Iron Driller - A person who drilled holes in iron, for example  in a shipyard where the holes were drilled in order too take rivets. It would have been a skilled job, as iron is brittle and easily shattered.


7. Iron Buffer


8. Rope Worker


9. Biscuit Packer





Wednesday 10 October 2012

William Coulter (1848 - 1904)

William, the son of Joseph Coulter and Anne (Agnes) Corbett (or Corbit) (although his mothers name is given as Agnes Corbett on in The Statutory  Register of Deaths) was born about 1848 (his age was given as 56 on the Statutory Register of Deaths). He was most probably born in County Down, Ireland.

William died at 34 Vermont Avenue, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 29th October 1904.

William married Charlotte Coulter, daughter of John Coulter and Helen Russell, at 5 Abbotsford Place, Tradeston, Glasgow on the 22nd November 1872. Charlotte was born about 1848 in Ireland and died at 57 Watt Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 2nd August 1915.

William and Charlotte had 11 children:

1.  Helen Russell Coulter (1874 - 1959)
2.  Nancy Corbett Coulter (1875 - 1883)
3.  Jane Hamilton Coulter (1877 - ?)
4.  Charlotte Coulter (1880 - 1883)
5.  John Coulter (1882 - ?)
6.  Hector Coulter (1882 - 1883)
7.  Joseph Coulter (1884 - 1959)
8.  Fanny Hook Coulter (1887 - 1909)
9.  Cordelia McCallum Coulter (1889 - 1957)
10. William Coulter (1892 - ?)
11. Charlotte McIntyre Coulter (1895 - 1940)

In 1861 William at age 13 was living with his parents at 2 Newfield Lane, Glasgow. Newfield Lane was "backland" off South Kinning Place, (later to become Weir Street).

At age 23 in 1871 (a year before he married Charlotte) he was still living with his parents but now at 38 St James Street (front landing). He was employed as a Hammerman.

By 1881 William was married to Charlotte and living with daughters Ellen (7), Nancy (5), Jane (3) and Charlotte (1) at 116 Watt Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Visiting the family were Mary Russell (21) and Danna Russell (18). Mary and Danna were most probably relatives of Charlotte's. In addition William had taken in lodgers - and Alexander Wilson (36) who had been born in Greenock and was employed as a Waggoner, and David Adams (26) born in Ireland and whose occupation was Shoesmith.

In 1991 the family, which now comprised Ellen (17), John (9), Joseph (7) Fanny (5), and Cordelia (2), had moved to 19 Anderson Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Ellen was employed as a Machinist.

By 1901 the family was living at 34 Vermont Avenue, Kinning Park. Sons John (18), Joseph (16) William (8) and daughters Jane (23), Fanny (14), Cordelia (12) and Christina (5) were all still living in the family home. Daughter Ellen Patterson and William's grand daughters Ellen (5) and Jane (2) were visiting on the night of the Census.

William's occupation at the time of his death three year later was given as Night Watchman.

Sources:

I can provide transcripts of the following for William.

1. Statutory Register of Deaths GROS Data 644/14 0404
2. Statutory Register of Marriages GROS Data 644/09 0590
3. Scottish Census: 1861, 1871, 1881, 1991, 1901.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Eliza Jane Coulter (1853 - ?)

Eliza Jane Coulter, the daughter of Joseph Coulter and Elizabeth (Eliza) Jane Barron, was born about 1853 in Govan, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

In 1861 at age 8, she was living with her parents at 2 Newfield Lane, (backland to South Kinning Place) Govan. In 1871 at age 18 she was still living with her parents, but now at 38 St James Street. She was employed as a biscuit packer.

Sources:

I can provide transcripts of the following.

1. Scottish Census: 1861, 1871.

Friday 5 October 2012

Coulter - Births - Kinning Park

Kinning Park was one of the smallest, most densely populated and short lived Burghs in Scotland. Originally part of Govan the local inhabitants established Kinning Park as a Burgh of about 100 acres and 6000 people in 1871. By 1882 it had its own Town Hall, police force, fire service,public baths and schools. 

The inaugural council in 1871 was one of the first examples of working class representation in Scotland with 5 "working men" candidates being elected to the 12 member Council under the guidance of Andrew Boa, an activist  who also served on Glasgow Trades Council.

When it was annexed into the City of Glasgow in 1905 Kinning Park had a population of 14,000.



Kinning Park Burgh Coat of Arms


Between 1875 and 1906 there were 33 births (17 male, 16 female) registered with the Coulter surname.

I can provide transcripts from the Statutory Register of Births for all 33:

1. Nancy Corbett Coulter b.1875 GROS Data 644/14 1095
2. Margaret Gray Coulter b.1875 GROS Data 644/14 0540
3. Patrick Coulter b.1876 GROS Data 644/14 1116
4. Jane Hamilton Coulter b.1877 GROS Data 644/14 0859
5. William Coulter b.1879 GROS Data 644/14 0830
6. Charlotte Coulter b.1880 GROS Data 644/14 0812
7. Annie Coulter b.1881 GROS Data 644/14 0367
8. Hector Coulter b.1882 GROS Data 644/14 0429
9. John Coulter b.1882 GROS Data 644/14 0428
10. John Henry Coulter b.1884 GROS Data 644/14 0316
11. Joseph Coulter b.1884 GROS Data 644/14 0864
12. Jessie Harvey Coulter b.1884 GROS Data 644/14 0786
13. David Coulter b.1886 GROS Data 644/14 0322
14. James Coulter b.1886 GROS Data 644/14 0086
15. Fanny Hook Coulter b.1887 GROS Data 644/14 0187
16. Jane Kennedy Coulter b.1887 GROS Data 644/14 0698
17. Mary Coulter b.1887 GROS Data 644/14 0448
18. John Coulter b.1888 GROS Data 644/14 0488
19. Thomas Coulter b.1888 GROS Data 644/14 0487
20. William Rogers Coulter b.1889 GROS Data 644/14 0764
21. Cordelia McCallum Coulter b.1889 GROS Data 644/14 0131
22. Margaret Gemmel Coulter b.1890 GROS Data 644/14 0796
23. William Coulter b.1892 GROS Data 644/14 0436
24. Isabella Gemmel Coulter b.1893 GROS Data 644/14 0853
25. John Coulter b.1895 GROS Data 644/14 0691
26. Thomas Coulter b.1895 GROS Data 644/14 0015
27. William Coulter b.1895 GROS Data 644/14 0536
28. Christina McIntyre Coulter b.1895 GROS Data 644/14 0350
29. Margaret McCall Coulter b.1897 GROS Data 644/14 0059
30. Elizabeth Josephine Coulter b.1898 GROS Data 644/14 1041
31. Jessie Coulter b.1898 GROS Data 644/14 0194
32. Robert William Heron Coulter b.1899 GROS Data 644/14 0014
33. John Coulter b.1904 GROS Data 644/14 0896

Coulter - Origin & Meaning

There are many sources for the origin and meaning of the name - and contradictions amongst them!

Coulter is almost certainly a surname of Scots origin. If your surname is Coulter you are almost certainly descended from people who would have seen themselves as Scots or Ulster Scots.

The surname is long established and widespread in Scotland and in the Ulster Counties of Down and Antrim and may have locational origin from the parish of Coulter in Lanarkshire. Lanarkshire accounts for just over 50% of all births registered in Scotland with the surname between 1855 and 2011. In his "Descriptions of The Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew - 1831" William Hamilton describes Coulter as "no great parish" that "belongs almost entirely to Coulterallers, Coultermaynes, and Nisbett who all reside in this parish". Culter Parish Church pictured below is the Chancel burial ground for the Coulterallers and Coulter Mains.


Some sources also suggest a locational origin from the lands of Coulter in Aberdeenshire, however the incidence of the surname in Aberdeenshire is low with less than 1.8% of all births registered with the surname inn Scotland between 1855 and 2011. The lands of Coulter in Aberdeenshire are so called from the Scots Gaelic elements "cul" meaning back - in the sense of a position and "tir" meaning country, land or territory.

Other sources suggest an origin from the norse Kaldr - a viking name of the 11th Century.

In etymological dictionaries of the English Language a Coulter is part of a plough (the cutting edge) from the Middle English olter, Anlo Saxon culter and Latin culter - meaning a knife. Robert Burns in "To a Mouse. On Turning Her Nest Up With A Plough" refers to the "cruel coulter" crashing through the mouse's nest. 

The first recorded spelling of the name is to be found in Lanarkshire in the year 1226. In the "Report on The Charters of The Duke Of Athole" during the reign of Alexander II  (1214 - 1249) of Scotland there is reference to Richard "of Culter" Sheriff of Lanark.

The surname was most probably introduced into the Ulster Counties of Down and Antrim during the Elizabethan and Cromwellian Plantations of Ireland. The parish and village of Ballyculter in south east County Down is named after people with the surname Coulter or Culter.


Wednesday 3 October 2012

Joseph Coulter (1821 - 1887)

Joseph Coulter was my great grandfather. He was born in Magherally, Dromara, County Down, Ireland. There is some doubt concerning Joseph's date of birth.

The entry in the Statutory Register of Deaths gives his age at the date of his death as 66, records that he married first Ann Corbett and second Eliza Jane Barron, and that his parents were Hector Coulter (a farmer) and Ellen Logan.

If we are to believe that he died aged 66 would this would mean that he was born in about 1821 - but he married Anne Corbit in 1833. I cannot believe that he married Anne at the age of 12! It is more likely that his second wife Eliza, who registered his death either did not know or was unsure of his date of birth. What we can conclude is that he was born before 1821.

He died at 18 St James Terrace, Kinning Park, Glasgow, Scotland on the 26th April 1887.

Joseph married twice, firstly to Anne Corbit (Ann Corbett) and then to Elizabeth Jane Barron.

Joseph married Anne Corbett in the First Presbyterian Church of Dromara Parish in County Down on the 9th July 1833. (Source 1) (Source 2). Joseph and Anne had one male child:

1. William Coulter (1848 - 1904). Married Charlotte Coulter.

They may also have had a female child - Eliza Ann - who was born in Dromara Parish to a Joseph Coulter and Nancy Corbit on 15th October 1834. Nancy is a form of Ann.

First Presbyterian Church of Dromara. Built 1826.

Joseph married Elizabeth Jane Barron (known as Eliza) at Magherally, County Down on the 19th April 1851. Joseph and Eliza had 11 children:

1. Eliza Jane Coulter (1853 - ?)
2. Annie Coulter (1855 - 1919). Married James Coulter.
3. Thomas Coulter (1856 - ?). Married Margaret Hamilton.
4. Agnes Coulter (1859 - 1881)
5. Martha C Coulter (1861 - ?). Married Archibald Clark Buchanan.
6. Joseph Coulter (1863 - 1880)
7. Samuel Coulter (1865 - ?). Married Annie Ford.
8. Robina Coulter (1868 -1902). Married John Smith.
9. Robert William Heron Coulter (1871 - 1934). Married Maggie Drysdale.
10. John Alexander Hendry Coulter (1871 - 1872)
11. John Henry Coulter (1875 - 1947). Married Susanna Bell.

In 1861 Joseph was living with Eliza and sons William (14), Thomas (4) and daughters Eliza Jane (9), Annie (6), Agnes (2) and Martha (2 months) at 2 Newfield Lane, Govan, Glasgow. He was employed as a Labourer.

In 1971 Joseph was living at 38 St James Street (Front Landing), Kinning Park, Glasgow with Eliza, sons William (25), Thomas (14), Joseph (8), Samuel (6), and daughters Eliza (18), Ann (16), Agnes (12), Martha (10) and Robina (3). A Thomas Heron age 70 lodging with the family. Thomas was an Uncle of Eliza's. Joseph was employed as an Engine Keeper at a Steam Crane.

By 1881 the family had moved to 32 Tower Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Joseph had died in 1880. William had married.  The household comprised Eliza, sons Thomas (24), Samuel (16), John (6) and daughters Agnes (22), Martha (20), and Robina (12). Eliza's Uncle Thomas Heron, now 80, was still living with the family. Joseph was employed asa Getekeeper.

Sources:

I can provide transcripts for the following for Joseph.

1. Statutory Register of Deaths GROS Data 644/14 0221
2. Scottish Census: 1861, 1871, 1881.

I have also provided links to on line sources for Joseph's marriages.

Coulter Surname - Glasgow

One of the largest concentrations of the Coulter surname in the United Kingdom is to be found in Glasgow. Between 1855 and 2011 there were 4010 births in Scotland registered with the Coulter surname. Of these 1411 (35.19%) were registered within the boundaries of the City of Glasgow as it is today.

Registration Districts in Glasgow have changed since 1855. I have listed all of the Registration Districts that have existed over time below - and the total number of births registered with the Coulter surname in each.  Follow the links to posts for each District. There is now one Registry Office, based at 1 Martha Street (see Martha Street/Park Circus).

Anderston (28); Baillieston (0); Blackfriars (9); Blythswood (24); Bridgeton (108); Calton (91);
Cambuslang (19); Camlachie (75); Cathcart (7); Clyde (7); College (25); Dennistoun (60);
Eastwood (0);Garngadhill (6); Glassford (0); Gorbals (47); Govan (inc Govanhill) (126);
High Church (19); Hillhead (8); Hutchestown (87); Kelvin (23); Kelvingrove (1); Kinning Park (33); Glasgow/Martha St/Park Circus (233);Maryhill (25); Milton (55); Park (2); Partick (35);
Plantation (26); Pollok (12); Pollokshields (7); Possilpark (5); Provan (16); Rutherglen (33);
Scotstoun & Yoker (9); Shettleston (45); Springburn (25); St Rollox (22); Townhead (3);
Tradeston (49).

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Registration Districts In Scotland

Registration districts in Scotland came into being with the introduction of civil registration in 1855; away from the cities their boundaries usually coincided with civil parishes. They still exist today in their own right and in many places do not coincide with the current council areas; commonly both geographically-large and densely-populated Council Areas will have several registration districts, each with a registrar within easy reach of most residents. 

The Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 now allows births and deaths to be registered with any registrar in Scotland, rather than solely in the registration district where the event occurred or in the registration district of usual residence.


As this blog develops I intend to list, by registration district, all births, deaths and marriages registered with the Coulter surname. The following listing will be updated as my work progresses.



Births

Kinning Park



Plantation

Alexander Thomson Coulter (1907 - 1932)

Alexander was born at 54 McLean Street, Govan on the 1st September 1907.  He died from Tuberculosis at 27 Clynder Street, Govan on the 28th June 1932.

He married Grace Downie Armstrong.

Monday 1 October 2012

Coulter - Births - Plantation

The following is a record of all Coulter births in the Plantation District of Glasgow. Plantation was originally a district of the Burgh of Govan. Govan became a Burgh in 1864 and was at that time the 5th largest Burgh in Scotland. It was incorporated into the City of Glasgow in 1912 - but only after a fair bit of resistance from the Govanites.

There were 26 births (13 male, 13 female) dating from 1883 - 1934. This represents 1.84% of all births registered with the Coulter surname in the City of Glasgow. The ratio of male to female births was 50/50.

I have trascripts from the Statutory Register of Births for:

1. Joseph Coulter b.1883 GROS Data 646/01 0662
2. Mary Coulter b.1886 GROS Data 646/01 0387 d. 1886 GROS data 646/01 0214
3. Robert Coulter b.1888 GROS Data 646/01 0455
4. Agnes Coulter b.1890 GROS Data 646/01 0600
5. Eliza Jane Barron Coulter b.1893 GROS Data 646/01 0668
6. Annie McRae Anderson Coulter b.1897 GROS Data 646/01 0285
7. Alexander Thomson Coulter b.1907 GROS Data 646/01 0655
8. Joseph Alexander Green Coulter b.1916 GROS Data 644/20 0111
9. Kathleen Mabel Crawford Coulter b.1924 GROS Data 644/20 0413
10. Barbara Gourlay Coulter b.1929 GROS Data 644/20 0863
11. James Coulter b.1931 GROS Data 644/20 0743

With the exception of Mary all of the above are descendants of James Coulter (1852 - 1930). Mary is the daughter of Thomas Coulter (1856 - ?), a brother of James wife Annie.

12. Joseph David Coulter b.1883 GROS Data 646/01 0457 (born out of wedlock to Sarah Coulter).
13. Andrew McWilliam Coulter b.1899 GROS Data 646/01 0175
14. Jane Coulter b.1900 GROS Data 646/01 0472
15. Peter Coulter b.1902 GROS Data 646/01 0772

[Note; 13,14 & 15 are siblings and descendants of Thomas Coulter 1870 - 1902; 16, 19 & 20 are siblings and descendants of Andrew McWilliam Coulter(1899 - ?)]

I am in the process of transcribing the following and will promote them in this list as I progress:

16. Emily Chisholm Coulter b.1914 GROS Data 644/20 0693
17. Jeanie Torrance Coulter b.1914 GROS Data 644/20 0346
18. Annie Corbett Coulter b.1920 GROS Data 644/20 0351

[Note: It is possible that 18 is a relative of James Coulter (1852 - 1930) - Corbett is a family surname in Annie's brother William's family tree (his mother maiden name)]

19. Andew McWilliam Coulter b.1925 GROS Data 644/20 0586
20. Elizabeth McWilliam Coulter b.1926 GROS Data 644/20 0868
21. Alexander Brown Coulter b.1928 GROS Data 644/20 1558
22. Marjorie Iona B Coulter b.1929 GROS Data 644/20 0208
23. John Coulter b.1930 GROS Data 644/20 1203
24. John Coulter b.1931 GROS Data 644/20 0773
25. Catherine Margaret Coulter b.1932 GROS Data 644/20 0525
26. John Coulter b.1934 GROS Data 644/20 1065


Annie McRae Anderson Stewart [Coulter] (1897 - 1969)

Annie was born at 48 Cornwall Street, Govan on the 5th April 1897. She died on the 1st January 1969.

Annie married Charles Stewart, son of Allan Stewart and Minnie Morgan, at Kinning Park Parish Churchon the 7th April 1928. The Minister was William Edgar and the witnesses James Kerr and Annie's sister Agnes. Charles was living at 197 Watt Street and Annie at 148 McLean Street.

Charles and Annie had three children; John Coulter Stewart (1929 - 2007), Annie Coulter Stewart (1931 - ?), and Kenneth McRae Stewart (1938 - ?).

Eliza Jane Barron Coulter (1893 - 1895)

Eliza was born at 48 Cornwall Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on  the 29th  September 1893.  She  died from convulsions and bronco pneumonia on 11th March 1895.

Agnes Coulter (1890 - ?)

Agnes was born at 48 Cornwall Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow on the 4th August 1890.

Robert Coulter (1888 - 1960)

Robert was born at 46 Cornwall Street, Govan on the 13th June 1888.

He married Mary Elizabeth Green, daughter of John Green and Elizabeth Crawford, on the 4th June 1915 in Plantation Parish Church. The Minister was Charles W. Farish and the witnesses William John Green and Helen P Langley. Robert's address was given as 148 McLean Street, Govan; Elizabeth's as 72 Eaglesham Street, Govan.

Like his brother James, Robert was a Brassmoulder.

Robert and Mary had two children: Joseph Alexander Green Coulter (1916 - 1985), Kathleen Mabel Crawford Coulter (1924 - 1928).

Kathleen died from Tuberculous Meningitis in March 1928 at the Belvidere Hospital for Infectious Diseases. Robert and Elizabeth were then  living at 32 Lambhill Street, Kinning Park.

Robert died at the Southern General Hospital, Govan on the 18th April 1960.