This is the story of the occupants of 21 Marywood Square, formerly 42 Princes Square.
James Robertson
The long terrace on the south side of Marywood Square was built c.1884-5 and in the 1885 valuation roll the entire terrace was listed as belonging to James Robertson, a mason and builder living in Pollokshields. He first advertised the houses for sale or let in the spring/summer of 1884. Yet in 1891 he went bankrupt , he died in 1893, and by 1895 the valuation roll notes the entire terrace was back in the ownership of William Stevenson, the quarrymaster and original developer of Strathbungo.
John & Elizabeth Anderson
John’s grandfather was a bookseller in Dumfries. His father Robert Wright Anderson took up printing and moved to Glasgow to work as a foreman with the Glasgow Herald before striking out in business on his own as a letterpress printer . His uncle Sir James Anderson also began training in printing, but jacked it in to go to sea. He achieved fame as the Captain of the SS Great Eastern who oversaw the laying of the first successful transatlantic telegraph cables in 1865-6 .
The Bailie caricature of Robert Anderson, letterpress printer. Source: TheGlasgowStory
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