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Robert Mather
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Purchased the Old Poorhouse at Cow Wynd in 1905
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Falkirk Poorhouse
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First at Cow Wynd from 1850 until 1904. The building then became a Model Lodging House (Woodside Home) until 1939 when it was purchased by Stirling County Council as a pre-vocational training centre, then it became County Trades School in 1945. Demolished in the 1980s. The new building at Hurworth Street was opened in 1904/5. The people moved in on 31 October 1904. That building later became known as Blinkbonny Home but was still essentially a poorhouse. Later (probably only part of the building) became a home for children, later a home for old people, then a hospital. Demolished 1991.
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Woodside Home
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After the new Falkirk Poorhouse was built in 1904 the old poorhouse in Cow Wynd became a working man's model lodging house known as Woodside Home
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Falkirk Trades School
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John Club
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John McNeill
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W S Robertson
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Andrew Taylor
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H Home Drummond
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James Neilson
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John Shelton
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Henry Johnston
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Governor of Poorhouse, Falkirk
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James Godfrey Booth
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Nursery and Seedsman
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A Moncrieff
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Andrew Jameson
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Patrick Fraser
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John Cheyne
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Thomas Fenton Livingstone of Westquarter
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Thomas Fenton Livingstone, Esquire, of Westquarter, was the only son of John Thomas Fenton, Esquire, and Selina, younger daughter of the late Sir John Edensor Heathcote, Knt., of Longston Hall, Staffordshire. He was born in 1829; succeeded his grand-uncle, Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone, Bart., of that ilk, in 1853, when he took the additional name of Livingstone; and in 1855, married Christian Margaret, only daughter and heiress of William Waddell, Esquire, D.L., of Moffat House, Lanark. Mr. Livingstone has, with other surviving issue, John Nigel Edensor, born in 1859. From The History of Stirlingshire- James Nimmo Chapter XXVII Titled and Untitled Aristocracy.
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Malcolm McFarlane
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Elected Governor of Falkirk Poorhouse
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