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Lucky dip time/ There's a few but this guy is from Calton

Name: Michael Cairns
Age: 38
Estimated birth year: abt 1843
Relationship: Head
Where born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Registration Number: 644/4
Registration district: Calton
Civil parish: Glasgow Barony
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 23 Kirk St.
Occupation: Shoemaker
ED: 39
Household schedule number: 69
Line: 1
Roll: cssct1881_224
Household Members:
Name Age
Michael Cairns 38
Charles Cairns 12
Patrick Cairns 3
John McQuire 40
John Brogan 62
Robert Moran 52

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THe above guy is the only one living in Glasgow at this time BTW

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10 years later same guy is staying in the Model Lodging House


http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSG00015

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You're on a roll today. :D

On the Conway headstone it says he was a writer. Can't remember the death date but think his age was on it too.

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1891

Name: Michael Cairns
Age: 32
Estimated birth year: abt 1859
Relationship: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Registration Number: 644/7
Registration district: Blythswood
Civil parish: Glasgow St Enoch
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 4 Dunlop St Uenion Hotel
Occupation: Writer
ED: 10
Household schedule number: 5
Line: 13
Roll: CSSCT1891_267

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:D

Looking good.

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Tremendous work D!

Wonder what his connection with the Conway family is?

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Right, he doesn't appear in the 1901 census, so he's either dead or moved from Scotland

However, checking the death records there is a Michael Cairns who dies aged 32 in 1892

This would make him born in 1858 (census guy was born abt1859)

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Check it out. Michael Cairns' dad was a Tailor....

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Death certified by John Conway MD

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He withdraws from the nominations on Wednesday, November 5, 1890; Issue 265.

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Michael died at 33 Apsley Place - Apsley Place (as opposed to the present Apsley Street in the West End) was an old address now gone on the edge of the Gorbals/Laurieston.

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Spoke to someone at the Mitchell yesterday.

Writer was definitely another form of "lawyer/solicitor" on forms around the turn of the last century

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I think Michael Cairns' position here reflects one of the early conflicts in Celtic's history between the pro-Temperance League of the Cross members and the directors/players who were involved in the licensed trade. A great find!

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Am sure it says 'Writer' also on the Conway monument. How sad that Dr Conway signed off his friend's death certificate and arranged for him to be buried in his family's lair - only for him to follow a couple of years later.

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From the Catholic records at ScotlandsPeople

1 20/02/1892 CAIRNS MICHAEL M 34 GLASGOW, ST PETER'S DALBETH CEMETERY

That's proof enough for me.