The Gorbals have had a pretty bad reputation - but are making a comeback in modern Glasgow. What conditions were like in the second half of the 19th C. is not my specific historical area of study. But after returning from Birkenhead to Scotland, my Great great grandmother Helen Smith Logan brought her two sons, Francis Smith Logan and Robert Anderson Logan to Glasgow. More on this later.
http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/logan/4986/
Two sons of Robert Anderson Logan (1857-1915) and Annie Carson
(1859-1898) were from the Gorbals.
James Carson Logan was born in
January 1881 in Naburn St. He moved to Maryhill during WW1. He was my Grandfather.
Robert Logan
was born in August 1882 in Crown St. and lived on Rutherglen Rd all his
adult life with his wife Mary Ross Johnston. He had at least one son also named Robert.
Also, Robert Anderson Logan had a brother Francis
(Frank) Smith Logan.He was born in Dumfries but came to Glasgow in the
1870s lived in Adelphi St and died in 1923. His wife was Helen Stone. Frank had three daughters.
Occupations: Frank and Robert A. Logan and later James Carson Logan, were compositor printers. There's a likely reason for this but firstly, it was because there was little need for tallow chandlers by this time.
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