Peter Watter & family in Camlachie

[AnneMT]

I have spent quite a lot of money on 1911 census looking for my mother, her brother and parents in Camlachie, without success.

My uncle James Watters(1907), and my mother Margaret Watters(aka Peggy - 1909) were both born in Salamanca Street, and lived later at Nisbet Street, Parkhead. Another uncle was born in Oct 1911. My grandfather Peter was a labourer at the forge, Parkhead (i.e. steelworks not shopping centre), so always lived in Parkhead area. I did manage to find my grandad's elder brother, Thomas and his family in the census at Salamanca St.

I have tried variants of the name and have even tried all of Scotland search, so where have they disappeared to. Are there any pages of the census missing? Could that be why I can't find them?

[Currie]

Hello Anne,

Perhaps they boycotted the census in a guid cause ………..the women’s suffrage movement in Scotland. http://suffragettes.nls.uk/

Here are a few mentions within that site of how they took leave of their census. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=1911+ ... mages&tbs=

Suffragettes and sympathisers possibly joined the protest in whatever way appealed to them. If all other possibilities have been exhausted then it’s much more likely than an alien abduction.

It seems that in 1911 the population increase in Glasgow was much less than expected. Perhaps that was partly because many people avoided being counted. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pg ... nsus&hl=en

It reminds me of a family I was researching in Co. Durham. In 1911 all the married men were home but there was no trace of the wives and kids anywhere. They lived in a mining village where the politics was so far to the left that it was known as ‘little Moscow’.

All the best,
Alan