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Personal data Patrick Dignam 

Roll: CSSCT1901_251
Household Members:
Name Age
Patrick Dignam 32
Mary Ann Dignam 26
Mary Ann Dignam 6
Lawrence Dignam 5
Terence Dignam 3
Patrick Dignam 10 Mo

• He was born on July 23, 1865 in Milltown, Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland.Sources 1, 2, 3
• He was baptized on July 30, 1865 in Rochfortbridge, Westmeath, Ireland.Source 4
• Occupations:
• in the year 1893 Fire Clay Miner in Garnkirk, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 5
• in the year 1891 General Labourer in Low Row, Garnkirk, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 1
• before 1950 Night Watchman (Retired).Source 6
• in the year 1900 Fire Clay Miner. Birth of Son, Patrick.Source 7
• in the year 1901 Coal Miner in 4 Low Row, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2
• Resident:
• in the year 1893: Garnkirk, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 5
• in the year 1891: Low Row, Garnkirk, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 1
• in the year 1901: 4 Low Row, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2
• (Informant at Death) on February 4, 1950 in 17 Crowwood Road, Muirhead, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland: Terence Dignam Son 14 Greenhill Avenue, Gartcosh.Source 6
• (Witness at Baptism) on July 30, 1865 in Rochfortbridge, Westmeath, Ireland: Lawrence Flood, Agnes Grenan.Source 4
• He died on February 4, 1950 in 17 Crowwood Road, Muirhead, Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was 84 years old.Source 6

  Oorzaak: Cardiovascular Degeneration

• A child of Lawrence Dignam and Mary Carty

Household of Patrick Dignam

He is married to Mary Ann Cole.

They got married on July 14, 1893 at St Josephs RC Church, Cardowan, Shettleston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was 27 years old.Source 5

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Dignam  1904-1941 
2. Patrick Dignam  1900-
3. Mary Ann Dignam  ± 1895-????
4. Lawrence Dignam  ± 1896-????
5. Terence Dignam  ± 1898-????

Event (Witness at Marriage) in the year 1893: John Cole, Mary Cole.Source 5

Notes about Patrick Dignam

1. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21423

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Garnkirk like this:
Garnkirk, a station, a seat of fireclay manufacture, and an estate near the southern border of Cadder parish, Lanarkshire. The station, on the Glasgow and Garnkirk section (1831) of the Caledonian railway, is 5¾ miles ENE of Buchanan Street station in Glasgow, and 4 WNW of Coatbridge. The fireclay works, in the near vicinity of the station, comprise large buildings, and produce vases, flower-pots, cans, crucibles, water-pipes, and other articles of remarkable elegance and durability.
The Garnkirk fireclay, occurring in beds from 4 to 19 feet thick, and equal if not superior to Stourbridge clay, resembles light-coloured sandstone in tint, and withstands a much stronger beat than any other fireclay known in Scotland. Its composition is 53.4 per cent. of silica, 43.6 of alumina, 0.6 of lime, 1.8 of peroxide of iron, and 0.6 of protoxide of manganese; while that of Stourbridge clay is 63.30 of silica, 23.30 of alumina, 0.73 of lime, 1.80 of oxide of iron, and 10.30 of water. Garnkirk House, ¾ mile NNW of the station, is the property of Alex. Sprot, Esq. (b. 1853; suc. 1870), who holds 1792 acres in the shire, valued at £4063 per annum, including £1043 for minerals. Pop. of Garnkirk, Crow Row, and Heathfield, (1861) 554, (1871) 656, (1881) 782.-Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.

2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/scotland/pp163-185#h3-0003

CADDER, or CALDER, a parish, in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Kirkintilloch; containing, with the village of Auchinearn, the hamlet of Bishopbridge, and the late quoad sacra district of Chryston, 4425 inhabitants. This place derives its name from its situation in the midst of a district abounding with wood and water, of which its appellation in the old British language, Calder, is significant. It appears to have owed its origin, as a parish, to the foundation of a church by St. Patrick, who was born in the immediate vicinity, and who, towards the close of the 5th century, founded numerous other churches in the neighbourhood, which were subsequently endowed by Convallus II., with lands for the maintenance of their respective clergy. The parish is about fourteen miles in length, and four in breadth, and the surface, which is generally undulated, is diversified with lakes, and by various tributary streams, which fall into the river Kelvin, the parish boundary on the north and west. Of the former, the most important were, Auchinloch, nearly in the centre of the parish, from which, on its being drained some years since, a stream was conducted to the Kelvin; Loch Grog, drained in 1844; and Robroyston loch, in the western part, now almost reclaimed into arable land. Johnston loch, in the eastern part, is about a mile in circumference, and is employed by the Forth and Clyde Company, as a reservoir for supplying their canal, for which purpose, also, they have appropriated the Bishop's loch, of which a small portion is within this parish.

The soil is extremely various; in some parts, a rich black loam; in others, mossy; on the banks of the various streams, chiefly alluvial; and in some parts, sandy. Several of the mosses, all of which abound with peat, have been reclaimed, affording excellent crops. About 9000 acres of land are in cultivation, about 300 deep moss, and there are something more than 500 acres in plantations, of which the principal, on the Cadder estate, contains many trees of ancient and luxuriant growth: there are several extensive dairy-farms, mostly stocked with cows of the Ayrshire breed. The crops are, oats, wheat, potatoes, barley, rye, and turnips, in the production of which the improved system of agriculture is adopted. The rateable annual value of the parish is £21,941. The substratum is chiefly whinstone, many seams of which, in different parts, rise above the surface; freestone is also found in abundance, alternating with the whinstone, and large quantities of it are sent to Glasgow. Limestone is prevalent; and coal exists in the parish, at a considerable depth, but the quality is not sufficiently good to remunerate the labour of working it. There are some extensive tracts of clay, used for pottery and bricks; of the former, various elegant specimens of vases have been produced, and fire-bricks and crucibles of excellent quality are made of the latter. Ironstone abounds, and is wrought to a considerable extent by the Carron Company. The Forth and Clyde canal intersects the western portion of the parish, passing in a line nearly parallel with the river Kelvin; the Kirkintilloch railway, opened in 1826, crosses its eastern extremity, and the Garnkirk and Glasgow railway, opened in 1831, passes on the south side, for several miles. In 1842, the line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway was carried through the parish. The village, formerly extensive, contains at present only sixty-four inhabitants, employed on the lands of its proprietor, whose mansion, recently enlarged, forms the principal object of interest in the place.

The ecclesiastical affairs are under the superintendence of the presbytery of Glasgow and synod of Glasgow and Ayr; the patronage is in the heritors and Kirk Session, and the stipend of the incumbent is £280.8., with a manse, and a glebe of about ten acres. The church, erected in 1830, is a neat edifice of stone, in the early English style, with a square tower, and is adapted for a congregation of about 800 persons. There are three parochial schools, situated respectively at Cadder, Chryston, and Auchinearn; the master in Cadder has a salary of £25. 13., and the fees amount to more than a sum of £55; the master at Chryston has £17. 2., with £56 fees, and the master of Auchinearn has £8. 10., with £12 fees, and the interest of 1000 merks bequeathed by the Rev. James Warden. Another school, in the village of Auchinloch, is endowed with £300, bequeathed by Patrick Baird, Esq. There are some remains of the ancient Roman wall, near the glebe. In 1813, a gold coin of Antoninus Pius was discovered, in a very perfect state, in clearing out the pond of Cadder; and in levelling the lawn before the house, the foundations of the old tower appeared, in which was found a vessel containing more than 300 gold coins, of the size of a shilling, with the inscription Jacobus.

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