Geography

[BillGall]

My great, great grandfather was born in Pollockshaw Scotland in 1829.
Can anyone tell me where this town is located?
Bill Gall

[Celyn]

Hello, BillGall and welcome!

Basically - it is effectively part of Glasgow - in the south of Glasgow.

OK, this description (from 1882)is a bit later than your grandfather's birth but might be interesting.

"POLLOCKSHAWS, town on the White Cart, 2½ miles south-south-west of Glasgow. It stands in Eastwood parish, which had for ministers the ecclesiastical historians Crawford and Woodrow; consists of irregularly-arranged streets, but presents a pleasant appearance; is a prosperous seat of manufacture; and has a post office with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, a railway station, 2 banking offices, a town hall, 2 Established churches, 2 Free churches, United Presbyterian, Original Secession, and Roman Catholic churches, an academy so enlarged in 1879 as to have capacity for about 550 scholars, the Sir John Maxwell school, with about the same capacity as the academy, and a handsome monument to the historian Woodrow. Pop. 9363. Part of this town forms a quoad sacra parish. Pop. 6402."

[From The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev. John Wilson, 1882.]
from: http://www.skylinc.net/~lasmith/genu...llokshaws.html

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Pollokshaws
Glasgow City
Situated on the White Cart Water to the south of the River Clyde and within the boundary of the City of Glasgow, Pollokshaws was originally a textile village which became a burgh of barony in 1813. Factories included the first linen print works near Glasgow (1742), a gas-lit cotton mill, iron foundries and paper mills. It became noted for its working class militancy and was the birthplace of the socialist MP James Maxton. Redeveloped in the 1960's, Pollokshaws is a mixture of old tenement flats with new low and high rise flats.

To the west is Pollok Country Park which houses the internationally renowned Burrell Collection and Pollok Golf Course.

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from:

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst495.html