Shuttletown?

rye470 · Post by **rye470** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:57 am

Hi All,

Has anyone come across a place called Shuttletown?

I have just come across it on the 1861 census for my Gx3 Grandmother, as her place of birth. Shuttletown, Lanarkshire. Could it be Shettleston? Her year of birth is 1789.

Can anyone help?

Post by **Merlot** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:20 am

Hi,

Yes it will be Shettleston. I remember reading that it was known as Shuttlestown.

Cheers,
Merlot

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:38 am

Now there's a thought, - the Calton weavers are well known, - but were there also significant numbers of weavers in Shettleston/Shuttlestown

David

Big Sanny · Post by **Big Sanny** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:34 pm

Shuttleson rather than Shuttlestown is a local phonetic pronunciation and I doubt whether you'd ever find it spelt like that in any historical manuscripts, mind you enumerators may no have been the brightest lights on the tree.

Scheideston/Shettleston goes way back to the early days of the bishopric of Glasgow in the 12th. century.