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The Hodgson family

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John Hodgson and his family took up residence at No. 6 in 1914[1] but a few months later he died there, of cancer, aged 57, on 17 March 1915.[2] Members of his family remained at No. 6 until the end of World War II. John Hodgson was born at Lancaster, Lancashire in 1858, the son…

John Roberts Baillie

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John Roberts Baillie lived at No. 9 between 1914 and 1936.[1] He was born at Bathgate on 02 October 1866, son of Thomas Baillie, a candlemaker, and his wife Agnes Roberts.[2] In the 1881 Census, when he was 14 years old, he was described as a stationer’s clerk.[3] He worked for the West Lothian Courier…