5th Great Grandmother
9th Generation
Born - 1803 - Northern Ireland
Died - 11 July 1880, Barnhill Poorhouse, GlasgowAll census records show that Jane Ellen Strickland was born in Northern Ireland to William Strickland and Elizabeth Finlay. Elizabeth, Jane’s mother was born in Scotland. Records suggest her father joined the army, this maybe the reason they were in Ireland. The image below is the Market Place in Newtownards, it wouldn’t have been the exact same as this when Jane Ellen lived but she would have been there.
In 1863-64 there was only one Strickland living in Newtownards. William Strickland was living in Windmill Row, as this was her father’s name it could have been him or maybe is son if not a relative.
Windmill Row is still there – none of the houses look remotely look like the have been there for 200 years but it shows how close they lived to the market square.
Interestingly, Movilla Street is also on the map – where her sister lived!
I have no records of Jane before she moved to Scotland. However, I have her sister’s census record which confirms she also lived in Newtownards. Just a few streets away from Windmill Row in 1851
I would be inclined to believe Jane was also still in Ireland in 1851 as she is not on the 1851 Scotland Census as we know her children were born in Newtownards. She may have moved to Scotland, her mother’s birth place shortly afterwards
Many landmarks, like the one pictured below, still stand in Newtownards. This is the Old Cross on the High Street. This ancient cross was erected in 1636 but was defaced by rebels in 1653 and restored by the town’s inhabitants in 1666.
By the 1861 census Jane Ellen is a widow, living in Scotland, with 3 of her children – George, a cotton weavers, Elizabeth a Power Loom Weavers and John an apprentice. They were living in Bridgeton. A town that started as a small weaving village in 1705. However, not much interest was shown in the town until 1776 when Rutherglen Bridge was built over the River Clyde and the area became known as Bridge Town (or Brig Toun in Scots). The area was incorporated into the city of Glasgow officially in 1846.
By the 1871 census all Jane’s children had left home and she had boarders living with her. She was still living in Bridgeton, this time on Dalmarnock Road. Dalmarnock was a heavily industrialised area. Fast forward 200 years and it was the location chosen for the athletes’ village when Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Therfore many of the buildings are no longer there.
Jane Ellen died in 1880, and like many of the others of her time she died in the poorhouse. She was one of the lucky ones as she lived until she was 72 and her daughter was there wither her. Her daughter Eliabsth, also lived on Dalmarnock Road.
Jane wasn’t the only member of her family to die in the poor house, her sister Sarah also died there – 16 years later! Sarah lived until she was 85. She also lived her life in Bridgeton. She lived at 21 Savoy Street, very close to Jane Ellen – in fact Savoy Street was one the the streets that came off Dalmarnock Road.
Husband – Robert Beattie
Son – William Beattie
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