A snapshot of Mansewood in 1914 is provided by the Valuation Rolls. These are property valuations collected by the council in setting domestic rates. Mansewood did not become part of Glasgow until 1925, being under the jurisdiction of Renfrewshire until then.
The Valuation Rolls show for each property who the occupant was, who the owner was, the type of property and the rate.
The entries in the Valuation Roll for Mansewood are shown in the table below. The most notable difference from the picture of 1881 is that the development has continued, with properties having been added on the other side of Mansewood Road (the school side). Many of the properties are listed with the same names as they had 33 years previously, while others have changed, or have been added where there were none before.
The road now known as Mansewood Road - or at least the church end of it - appears to have been known as Kirkhill Road.
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Description |
House name |
Owner |
Occupier |
Comment |
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House & Garden |
Lynton |
Agnes Dobbie |
Charles R. Gibson, Manufacturer |
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House, Garden & Offices |
Holme View |
Trustees of late William McFarlane |
David Melrose, Insurance Secretary |
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House & Garden |
Sunnyside |
Trustees of late William McFarlane |
Janet McFarlane, widow |
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House, offices & Garden |
Eastwood Manse |
Rev. Frederick Langlands, BD, Proprietor in Life Rent, ex officio |
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House & Garden |
Littlewood |
Francis Steel Colledge, C.E. |
This house name and family appear in the 1881 census. | |
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House & Garden |
Torrance Lodge |
Stephen A. McPhee, retired |
This house name appears in the 1881 census. | |
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House & Garden |
Silverrae |
Catherine McKechnie, widow |
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House & Garden |
Springfield House |
Trustees of James Spencer, shipowner |
Jessie S. Spencer, widow |
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House, offices & Garden |
Annfield |
Charles Robertson, muslin manufacturer |
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House & Garden |
Ythan Bank |
Robert Mearns, writer |
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House & Garden |
Gowanbrae |
Nicol Cameron, house factor & valuator |
This house name appears in the 1881 census. | |
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House & Garden |
Kinneddar |
David Barrowman, inspector of poor |
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House & Garden |
Knoidart |
Graham Kinlock, no occupation |
Graham, Isobel N. and Mary W. Kinlock, spinsters |
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House & Garden |
Hillside |
Trustees of late Duncan M. West (including Isabella S. West, widow) |
Isabella S. West, liferentrix |
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House & Garden |
Redle |
Peter Martin Scott, Assistant Insurance Manager & Margaret M. Scott |
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House & Garden |
Highfield |
Mary Aird, widow |
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House & Garden |
Hartfield |
John Hamilton, architect |
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House & Garden |
Howford |
John Whitehead, engineer |
John, Maragaret L. and Nanzie Whitehead, spinsters |
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House & Garden |
Rosebank |
John Wilson, civil engineer, Kilbirnie |
Alexander J. Grant, explosives agent, tenant |
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House & Garden |
Woodvale |
Helen P., Jane H. and James R. Smith, cashier |
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House & Garden |
Ferncliffe |
John Low Menzies, tea and wine merchant |
This house name appears in the 1881 census. | |
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House & Garden |
Delaware |
Andrew Rowan, stationer, and Archibald Rowan, marine insurance secretary |
This house name appears in the 1881 census. | |
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House & Garden |
Elkhorn |
Trustees of late Thomas Ness Wallace |
Thomas N. Wallave, tenant [sic] |
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House & Garden |
Selaw |
James Wales, lithographer |
Known in the 1881 census as Vaddi Tharma - an anagram of the owner's names. Here the name is the occupier's surname backwards. | |
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House & Garden |
Ingleside |
Trustees of Gavin Spiers |
Mary C. Spiers |
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House & Garden |
Broomknowe |
David Livingstone, retired |
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House & Garden |
The Wern |
George Lang, Bleachworks Manager |
George Lang |
Now has the same name, 32 Mansewood Road. |
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House & Garden |
Kirkhill |
Williamina L. Wallace, wife of Allan Wallace, stockbroker |
Allan Wallace |
This house name appears in the 1881 census. |
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House & Garden |
Lochiel |
Lilian, wife of Andrew Eadie, tube manufacturer, 62 Aytoun Road, Pollokshields |
Rev. S. J. Cunnington Goldsack, minister, tenant |
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House & Garden |
Fairview |
Matthew Connell, measurer |
This house name appears in the 1881 census, with the same occupier. | |
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House & Garden |
North Fairview |
James Jack, retired |
This house name appears in the 1881 census, but "North" has been added, presumably to distinguish it from the Fairview next door. | |
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House & Garden |
Dalhousie, Kirkhill Road |
David G. Ramsay, draper |
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House & Garden |
Hermiston, Kirkhill Road |
Alexander McLellan Argrey, Pollokshaws |
William F. Andrew, Accountant |
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House & Garden |
Winthorpe, Kirkhill Road |
Alexander McLellan Argrey, Pollokshaws |
James Sinclair, teacher |
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House & Garden |
West Lodge |
Sir John Stirling Maxwell, bart. |
William Hepburn, shipowner, Hillhead House, tenant, John Fisher, gardener, inhabitant occupier not rated |
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House & Garden |
Whinbrae |
Elizabeth C., wife of Robert S. Brown, bleacher |
Robert S. Brown |
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House & Garden |
Ridgmont |
Robert Bryce Walker, solicitor, Thorndene, Hamilton |
Ritchie Lennie, apint manufacturer, tenant |
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House & Garden |
Mansewood |
Catherine, wife of William Forrest, spirit dealer |
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Church and Session House |
Heritors of parish of Eastwood, per William Gillies, clerk |
Eastwood Parish Kirk Session, per William Gillies, clerk |
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House & Garden |
Heritors of parish of Eastwood, per William Gillies, clerk |
Inhabitant occupier not rated, thomas McQueen, Church Officer |
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House & Garden |
Thomas Allison, ironfounder |
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