KENNEDY/WELSH - TOLLCROSS
Contact - jeanwh2 at
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August, 2008
Hi there,
I stumbled on your
web page by accident and read with great interest about Tollcross as I've lived
there all my life. I read the interview with a Mrs Templeton and as I read the
section about Dunlop street and particularly about a Mr Harris, this man was my
great, great, great grandfather!! His name was Joshua Harris and one of his
daughter's Annie Harris was my great, great grandmother, she was born in 12
Dunlop street, she went on to marry Alexander Morrison who was a Tinsmith and
they lived in Dunlop street along with her father until she tragically died at
the young age of 37 years from a blood disorder called pernicious anaemia, she
is buried in Corbett street graveyard. Annie's son called Joshua Morrison
was my great grandfather who incidentally married a woman called Bethia Adams,
they lived in Williamson street just off the London road at Springfield Road. I
have a photo of my great grandmother Bethia Adams when she was eighteen and a
couple of photos of my great grandfather when he was older. My ma and da lived
in Battleburn street in 1955 in a miners row, my da worked in Stewart&
Lloyds steel foundry. In 1960 they lived in 107 Causewayside street. My older
brother David was in an accident in one of the back courts as a washing house
collapsed on top of him and a few others and the nuns from St. Vincent De Paul's
helped to get them out! In 1962 we moved back to Lundie street Auchenshuggle
where my granny and granda Kennedy lived and where my da had been brought up
since 1941. I now live across the road from my granny and granda’s house and
my children play where I played as a child. I just thought I would e-mail you to
let you know that its a small world right enough !! and to ask you if by chance
if your connected to the "Adams" in my family tree.
I will have to go to
Corbett street graveyard and lay some flowers on Joshua's and Annie Harris's
graves, I'm not sure where they are situated in the graveyard but I know they
are there. As I said my great great grandmother died at a very young age (37),
I'm not sure what age her father was. As for the Adams connection, Annie
Harris's son named Joshua after her father married Bethia Adams and I've looked
into the Adams side quite a bit. Bethia's father was Robert Adams and he was an
engine keeper in Beardmore's, tragically he was burnt to death whilst working in
the Parkhead Forge, his clothes being saturated with boiling oil !! in 1923, he
lived up above a pub called the Netherfield at the beginning of Duke street,
before that he lived in the Bridgeton area.
Kind regards,
Jean Kennedy Welsh
