6>IOBT4S~ \Cr 1^ FOUNDED BY SIR PETER GOATS, I87O. REFERENCE DEPARTMENT 05O 1R3P.C. No Book to be taken out of the Room. X^- ; O O K . P A I S I 2 223125 21 Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 with funding from National Library of Scotland http://www.archive.org/details/fowlerspaisley184546unse 2 2E3I2S 21 FC/?83 jT FOWLER'S PAISLEY AND JOHNSTONE COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY FOR 1845—1846, COIifTAIXING COMPREHENSIVE AND ACCURATE DIRECTORIES OF PAISLEY, QUARRELTON, ELDERSLIE, AND JOHNSTONE, LINWOOD. ALSO, A COPIOUS STREET GUIDE OF PAISLEYr! Umt AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING MANY USEFUL LISTS AND TABLES- ELEVENTH PUBLICATION. PAISLEY: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY G. FOWLER, BOOKSELLER. ELEVENTH EDITION or FOWLER'S DIRECTORY IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO P. M. STEWART, ESQ. M.P., FOR RENFREWSHIRE ; ARCHIBALD HAS TIE, ESQ., M. P. FOR PAISLEY: WALTER BAINE, ESQ., M. P. FOR GREENOCK; ROBERT WALLACE, ESQ. OF KELLY, late M, P. FOR GREENOCK; SIR JOHN MAXWELL OF POLLOK, BART.; AND THE MAGISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL OF PAISLEY, BY THEIR MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT, GEORGE FOWLER. ADDRESS. G. FOWLER, ill presenting to the public the Eleventh Edition of the Directory, returns his sincere thanks to those -who have sup- ported this Work hitherto. As the chief value of a work of this kind consists in accuracy of detail, and distinctness of arrangement, the present Publisher has in this, as in all his former Editions of the Directory, spared nei- ther labour nor expense in securing these ; and as the compilation of a work of tliis kind is attended with a very great degree of labour, and not a little expense, which can only be compensated by ^n extensive sale of the Work, he trusts he will meet with a suit- able degree of encouragement from a discerning public. The Lists and Tables inserted in the appendixes will be found of the most useful description, and suitable not only to the Merchant and Trader, but to the Public generally—a Directory being not only a useful, but a highly necessary repository for enabling a commer- cial people to become acquainted with each other. The Publisher could not help observing, in the course of his survey for this Edition of the Directory, that many of the numbers of the houses, &c., are either partially or wholly obliterated, and that many of the old numbers, wliich ought to have been obliterated when the houses were numbered on the present plan, are still visible —a circumstance that is apt to mislead or create confusion. He would, therefore, take the liberty of calling the attention of the Police Commissioners, and of Proprietors, Shopkeepers, &c., to these defects, with a recommendation to have them speedily rectified, that being essential to the convenience of strangers, and no less so to the safe and prompt delivery of letters and packages, in which every class of the inhabitants, but especially the Mercantile and Manu- facturing classes, are interested ; and is, in fact, an incumbent duty on the Police to see carried into eflFect. All Communications^ post-paid, will be duly attended to. i^° Orders Received for every New Periodical Publication. Renfrewshire Directory Opfice, 43 High Street, Pais'ey, iHo. CONTENTS^ Page Page PAISLEY DIRECTORY . 13 Medical Practitioners . lOl Additional Names . : 132 Messengers at Arms ... 99 Appendix . : . 89 Midwives 101 Address and Notices ... 5 Ministers 108 Adjusters of Weights and Measares 125 Officers, Church and Precentors 110 Agricultural Society ( Renfrewshire) 128 Do. Sherift' .... 97 Annual Licenses ... 93 Do. Town ... 97 Assembly Rooms . 103and 104 Parliamentary Boundaries . 131 Assessed Taxes .... 92 Philosophical Institution (180S) 104 Auctioneers and Appraisers . 99 Police Commissioners of Bnrgh 90 Bands, Instrumental ... 131 Do. Do. Suburbs 90 Banking Houses Do. Regulations ... 90 British Linen Co. (branch of) 100 Do. Rates of Assessment . 91 Clydesdale (branch of) . 99 Do. Ward Divisions for Burgh 91 Scotland, Western (brandi of) .99 Do. Do. Newtown 92 Glasgow Union (branch of) 100 Poor's Funds (Overseer for Burgh) 112 National Security's (savings) 100 Population .... 89 Scotland (branch of) . 99 Porters, Barrowraen, Fares, &g. 155, 156 Bill Card ..... 7 Postages, rates of . 114 Boats, Steam . 116 Posts, arrival and dispatch of . 118 Do. Canal Luggage . 118 Presbytery Meetings 108 and 109 Canal Company, ( Glasgow^ Paisley, Prison Board for Renfrewshire 98 and Ardrossan) . .128 Procurators, Faculty of . 95 Carriers' Quarters . 115 Procurators for the Poor . 96 Coal Merchants and Agents . 125' Public Offices, &c. 122 Coffee and News Rooms . i 103 Public Sale Room ... 99 Collectors of Poors' Rates . 112 Quarterly Meetings, Bnrgh and Sub. 91 Commissioners for Court House and Railway Companies . 117 and 130 Public Offices ... 98 Road Committee, New Town (1792) 127 Connmissioners for Income Tax 95 Road Directors, Burgh ( 1834) . 129 Commissioners of Supply . 95 Renfrewshire Militia . 193 Do. for taking Affadavits for Renfrewshire Trustees for Glas- Court of Chancery, &e. 97 gow Bridge . 102 Constituency and Voters . 89 Sacramental Fast Days . 110 Conveyanceby Land and Water 113 Schools, Abbey Parish . 105 Courts, Commissary ... 98 Do. English, Middle Parish 105 Do. Burgh .... 96 Do. Low Do. 1.05 Do. Justices of the Peace . M Do. Grammar . 105 Do. Quarter Sessions . 98 Da. Educational Association 105 Do. Sheriff .... 96 Do. Hutchison's Charity . 105 Do. Do. Small Debt . 97 Do. Infant . 106 Deaf and Dumb, ( Society for the Do. Methodists, Sabbath, &c. 10(5 education of) . 106 Do. Parochial Do. 107 Directions for Recovery of Persons Do. Sabbath, Free Church of Apparently Drowned . 121 Scotland ... 108 Dispensary and House of Recovery 101 Do. Sabbath and Week Day 106 Dues, River and Harbour . 120 Do. Sessional . 105 Dues, Town . 119 Do. Town's Mercantile, &c. 105 Fairs ...... 12C Session Clerks . 110 Firemen and Fire Engines . 125 Societies, Distribution of Tracts 112 . — Furnished Lodgings . II? Do. Female Benevolent . Gas Light Company . 1:^8 Do. Friendly, &c. 126 Grain Mills 126 Do. Gaelie Missionary . — Grave Diggers , . Ill Do. Humane . 121 Hospital, Town's ... 102 Do. Scottish Amicable Life 100 Insurance, ( Offices and Agents) 124 Do. Total Abstinence . 130 . 8 Justices of the Peace . 94 Stamp Duties .... Libraries ..... 104 Stentmasters . 112 Lieutenancy of Renfrewshire , 94 Stores, (see Markets) . 126 Literary and Convivial Association 105 Street Guide .... 9 Lodge, Odd Fellows, (Wid. & Or.) 130 Trustees. River Cart, and for Burgh Lodge, Odd Fellows, (Wilson's) 130 Creditors . 97 and 119 Lodge, St. Mirren's . 127 Regulations of Do. 120 Magistrates and Town Council 89 Veterinary Surgeons . 101 Markets and Stores . 126 Water Company ... 1^ BILL CARD. — 1843. 1§46. JULY. JANUARY. JULY. Tues 1 8 15 22 29 Thur . 1 8 15 23 29 Wed. 1 8 15 22 29 Wed. 2 9 16 23 30 Fri. 2 9 16 23 30 Thur. 2 9 16 23 30 Thur 3 10 17 24 31 Sat. 3 10 17 24 31 Fri. 3 10 17 24 31 Fri. 4 11 18 25 ! Sun-. 4 11 18 25 Sat. 4 11 18 25 Sat. 5 12 19 26 1 Mon. 5 12 19 26 Sun. 5 12 19 26 Sun. 6 13 20 27 'J'ues 6 13 20 27 Mon. 6 13 20 27 Mon. 7 14 21 28 Wed. 7 14 21 28 Tues. 7 14 21 28 AUGUST. FEBRUARY. AUGUST. 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