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460 NEW KILPATRICK.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Campbell Lady, Garscube house (postal
address, Mary hill, Glasgow)
Campbeli-Colquhoun Archibald, Garscadden
house
Wallace Mrs. Canniesburn
COMMERCIAL.
Cossar William, dairyman, Garscube
Craig Alexander B. schoolmaster, School
house, Garscadden
Drummond Robert, smith, Tambowie
Hale John, inland revenue officr. Tambowie
Horn Robert & William, brick & tile mas.
Garscadden & Cowdon hill
Hurll P. & M. brick & sanitary pipe manu-
facturers, Netherto-n; Glasgow office, 144
i West Regent street
Lawson John, factor (for J. E. Campbell
Colquhoun esq.), Killermount cottage,
Maryhill
Lindsay Daniel, master, School ho.Craigton
M'Indoe Robert, grocer, Garscadden
McKinnon David, plasterer, Netherton
Melklem Robert, smith, Drumry
Meiklem Walt, joiner & cartwright,Drumry
New Kilpatrick Library (William Higgins
librarian)
Ralston Charles W. factor for Lady Camp-
bell, Maryhill, Garscube
Reformatory for Girls (Miss Hunter
matron), East Chapelton
Benton Thomas, manager Temple Saw Mill,
Netherton
Robinson, Dunn & Co. saw mill ownerB &
timber merchants, Temple saw mill,
Nether-ton; offices, Partick
Scott John, master, School house, Netherton
Thompson Janet (Mrs.), blacksmith, Can
niesburn
Wilson Alexander, master, School house
Young James & Sons, colliery proprietors
& lime burners, Baljaffray coal & lime
works
For names in New Kilpatrick Village, see
Bearsden.
FARMERS IN NEW KILPATRICK
PARISH.
Allison George, Thorn
Blackwood W. & Son, Craigton, Milngavie
Buchanan Alexander, Garscadden Mains
Carslaw Samuel, South Mains
Donald William, Craigdow, Milngavie
Dougall Thomas, Kemardlnny
Galbraith John, Tambowie, Milngavie
Graham James, Laigh park, Milngavie
Graham John, Low Miilichen, Maryhill
Lyle Walter, Knigfotswood, Maryhill
McGown Andrew, Blairdardie
M'Lachlan Alex. Gartconnell & Mosshead
M'Nair Mrs. Helen, Westerton
M'Nair William, Netherton, Maryhill
McQuat John, Low Muir farm, Duntocher
Mitchell Malcolm, The Law
Mitchell Robert, Barloch, Milngavie
Muirhead William, Cioberlhill, Maryhill
Ness William, North Baljaffray
Paton Andrew, Little Balvie, Milngavie
Paul Mrs. Jane, South Baljaffray
Ramsay Daniel, Balnaughton
Russell Robert, Boclair, Maryhill
Scott Robert, Temple, Maryhill
Smellie William, Ciober farm, Milngavie
Strathdee Alex. Bumbrae farm, Milngavie
Strang John, Crossveggate, Milngavie
Tweed John, Kayston, Milngavie
Veitch James, High Craigton, Milngavie
Wallace John, Kessington, Maryhill
Wallace Mrs. Robert, Chapelton
Watt James, Milngavie parks & Ciober,
Milngavie
Wilson Mrs. Helen, Langfaulds
Young Mrs. Margaret, Broadholm
KIEKINTtLLOCH is a police
burgh, a parish and an ancient town,
situated in a detached portion of the county,
40 miles west from Edinburgh, 20 south-
south-west from Stirling, 16 east from Dum-
barton, 16 west from Falkirk, 7 north from
Glasgow, 7 west from Cumbernauld, 6
south-west from Kilsyth, 4 south-east from
Campsie and 5 south-ea^t from Campsie
Gien, with a station on the North British
railway. The town is situated on the
verge of a ridge by the water of Luggie,
near to its junction with the Kelvin, and is
lighted with gas from works originally
erected by a private company, but acquired
by the town under the Burgh Gas Supply
Act, 1876. The Forth and Clyde canal, which
passes through the town, affords a speedy
and certain transit to the east or west
coast of Scotland. The Monkland and
Kirkintilloch railway, which ertendB to
Airdrie and joins the Ballochnie railway
DUMBARTONSHIRE.
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about a m il e from that town and a! so
unites with the Garnkirk and Glasgow
railway, has a terminal station here. Tne
Edinburgh and Glasgow line passes over
the Monkland and Kirkintilloch, a mile
Eouth of the town, and near this is Lenzie
Junction station, from which the North
British line runs through Kirkintilloch, and
then, branches off to Kilsyth and Aberfoyle.
The weaving of lappet muslin is still carried
on here, but is gradually dying out, the
inhabitants being now chiefly employed at
the different chemical and iron works or;
the canal bank. The iron foundries are
now the principal industry of the district.
and are steadily being enlarged. There art
also nickel works, where the ore brought
from new Caledonia is melted, and in the
vicinity are coal and ironstone mines.
Kirkintilloch is a free burgh of barony, its
first charter, dated from Forres, having
been conferred by William the Lion (1165-
1214), when it was granted to William
Cumyn, of Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch,
and this charter was subsequently confirmed
and its privileges enlarged. The town was
formerly governed by a senior and a junior
magistrate, otherwise bailies, ten council
lors, treasurer, and town clerk, but in 1871
the inhabitants adopted the General Police
and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862. and
their affairs are now administered by a
body of 12 police commissioners. Burgh
police courts are held fortnightly, or more
frequently if occasion requires. The magis-
trates act also as dean of guild; justice of
the peace courts are held only as may be
required, and the sheriff's small debt circuit
court on the fourth Mondays of January,
April, July and October. The Court House,
which forms a substantial building at the
cross, is ornamented with a tower and spire,
containing a clock with four dials. The
police office is in Cowgate street, and there
is a Fire Brigade station in Kerr street.
There are branches here of the Commercia
Bank of Scotland Limited, the National Bank
of Scotland Limited, and a local Savings
Bank. The K Company, 1st Dumbartonshire
Volunteer Rifle Corps is stationed here,
and has a Drill hall in Cowgate street. The
Broomhill Home, for the relief of incur-
ables in Glasgow and the West of Scot-
land, besides maintaining about 112
patients in the home, affords relief to
many others at their own residences ; the
original building, formerly the residence of
the late R. J. Bartholomew esq. has been
enlarged from time to time, and will now
hold 100 patients, and a nurses' wing has
recently been added, and was opened in
May, 1895, by Her Grace the Duchess of
Montrose. At Westermains is also a
private asylum, with every necessary
requisite for those mentally afflicted ; Mr.
James Lawrie. proprietor. On the bank of
the Luggie, and near the bridge, stands a
monument of red Aberdeen granite,
erected by public subscription, to Mr.
Hazleton Robson, of Glasgow, who in
endeavouring to save the itfe of a child
who had fallen into the river, failed in
the attempt and lost his own life; on the
monument is a suitable inscription. About
a mile to the east of the town, on the
Inchbelly road, is the Martyrs' stone,
erected as a memorial to John Wharry and
James Smith, two Covenanters, who hav-
ing been captured at Stevenson Wood.
Inchbelly, and taken to Glasgow, were
there tortured and then executed and their
remains afterwards carried to Inchbelly
Wood and buried in the moss. The parish
church, 'built in 1644, is a cruciform struc-
ture, and stands near the centre of the
town. St. David's is the church of a
quoad sacra parish at Twechar, in which
is a new church, erected in 1903, at the
cost of Messrs. Baird and Co. and there
are also four "United Free churches, and
Methodist. Baptist and Roman Catholic
chapels. The Vallum Antonini, or wall of
Antoninus, a rampart of earth and turf.
now called Graham's or Grime's dyke, was
constructed about A.D. 140 by the Pro-
praetor Lollius TJrbicus, in the reign of
Antoninus Pius, 138-161, on the line of ar
earlier Eeries of defences raised by
igricola; it passed through this town,
and one of the principal forts stood on the
summit of a hill, a little we6t of the
parish church; the site of this fort, now
commonly called the " Peel," is still trace-
able by the deep moat which surrounded
it, this was in 1897 converted into a public
park. In 1893 (Aug. 28), a workman at
the Lion foundry, which stands near the
line of the wall, while engaged in dig-
ging sand, at a depth of about 15 feet
from the surface came upon over 50
Roman coins of the Emperors Augustus
(B.C. 31 to A.D. 14), Vespasian (A.D-
69-79) and Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), the
whole being in a remarkable state of
preservation ; on further search more
were discovered and also the steel head*
and part of the shaft of a spear.
Alexander Whitelaw esq. D.L., J. P. of
Gartshore ; James D. G. Dalrymple esq. ;
the trustees of the late Capt. William
McFarlane esq. ; Alexander Falconer Wal-
lace esq. 20 Hyde Park gardens, London
W; James Wallace esq.; Charles G. H.
Einnear esq. of Edinburgh; James Dun-
can esq. and the trustees of the late
William Burt Wright esq. are the prin-
cipal landowners. The boundaries of the
burgh were a few years ago extended^
The entire parish of Kirkintilloch com-
prises an area of 7,156 statute acres;
rateable value, £69,934; the population ii?
1891 was 12,427, and in 1901, 14,401, in-
cluding 10,502 in the burgh and 142 in
Broomhill Home for Incurables ; area of
burgh, 841 acres ; the population of the
ecclesiastical parish (parish church) in*
1901 was 7,519, and of St. David, 4,813;
bhe population of Twechar village in 1901
was 1,143.
Waterside is a village in Kirkintilloch-
civil parish; the population in 1901 was
500.
Post, T. & M. 0. 0., T. M. 0. & S. B. &
A. & I. Office, Broadcroft; Richard E.
Wyatt, sub-postmaster. Letters received!
through Glasgow. Deliveries, 7.40 a.m.
& 1 & 5.20 p.m.; dispatches, 8.25 a.nu
& 12.10, 3.30, 6.10 & 8 p.m
TOWN COUNCIL & LOCAL
AUTHORITY.
Provost & Senior Magistrate, Andrew-
Graham Service, Dalgowrie, Lenzie
Bailies, David Perry, Norwood, Lenzie;
Robert Hudson, Ellerybank, Kirkintil-
loch ; Archibald Watson, Avenue place,
Kirkintilloch; Matthew Nisbet Honey-
man, Hawarden, Kirkintilloch
Councillors, seven
Town Clerk, David Patrick
Burgh Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector,
William Marshall
Clerk & Assessor of Police Courts, David
Patrick
Collector of Rates & Treasurer, John M.
Ramsay; office, 93 Townhead
Procurator Fiscal, William Gray
Medical Officer of Health, William White-
law M.D., F.F.P. & S.Glas., D.P.H
Fire Master, John McNab
SHERIFF'S SMALL DEBT CIRCUIT
COURT.
Held in the Town hall on the fourth
Mondays of Jan. April, July & October.
Sheriff, John M. Lees
Sheriff Substitute, Patrick James Blair
Sheriff Clerk, Robert Craig
Sheriff Clerk Depute, Andrew Matson
Justice of Peace Court, Town hall; clerk,
Thomas D. Torrance, Laurel bank, Kirk-
intilloch
PARISH COUNCIL.
Offices, Victoria place.
Chairman, Alexander C. Rutherford
Vice-Chairman, Alexander Park
Clerk, Inspector of Poor, Collector of Poor
& School Assessments & Clerk to Ceme-
terv. Robert Davie
Medical Officer, William T. Blakelv M.B.,
CM
Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages,.
Andrew Matson
Fire Brigade Station, Kerr street, Johrj
McNab, superintendent!
Gas Works, David Patrick, clerk; William
Wilson, manager
Police Office, Cowgate street, William.
Gray, inspector of police
VOLUNTEERS.
1st Dumbartonshire Rifle Corps (K Co.),
Drill hall, Cowgate street; Capt. James-
Hope; Surg. -Capt. W. B. Armstrong.
M.B. medical officer; Rev. W. Brownlie
M.A. acting chaplain; Alexander Sim ?
sergeant-instructor
BROOMHILL HOME.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF
INCURABLES.
For Glasgow & West of Scotland,
Chairman, Sir John Ure Primrose, bart