Trying to write out my grandmother’s family tree - something a bit different for lockdown ... Her grandmother was born in Glasgow but fostered out to Inverness, as wasn’t unusual at the time . The family has always been a bit of a mystery and to get this far’s taken a few years of research !
In document I’ve attached ‘Ann’ is my gran’s grandmother, and it’s her mother applying for poor relief.
I’ve been able to see some documents from Glasgow records for poor relief applications , that kind of explain why Ann was sent to Inverness . ... most of it I can work out with other records to fact check but I’m stuck on this page.
I think the top must be all known addresses? Then something about John (Ann’s father) being in British ?? at the time of his death , she should have got £? but didn’t get that due to age gap (there were about 30 years or so between husband and wife I think) .
Have got widow of John applies for poor relief - and address - but then what?
Am I right that she was 12/ ? for rent and had no furniture; there were two lodgers in the house , they quickly found 1/6 (money?) and something to do with alcohol ? It’s this paragraph I’m most confused about . Particularly as I can’t see alcohol mentioned again in the rest of the documents - although it would make some sense .
The final paragraphs just seem to be Ann and mother, and sometimes siblings, in and out of workhouses and having a thigh deformity - there are several other pages just with much the same although at one point mother’s sister appears too (she had 9 siblings but majority died very young) . Ann’s mother went on to have 5 children I think to 3 different men, lost three of them in infancy, then died alone relatively young of heart disease . Very sad really .
Just wondering if anyone can help me decipher all the stuff about money and alcohol - maybe I’m not reading it right, or if anyone knows what it might mean in context !! Thanks 