Houldsworth Ancestry, Glasgow, Scotland

This morning, I am posting information on Houldsworth family history as sourced from a mausoleum at Glasgow's Necropolis which is dedicated to John Houldsworth. This Graeco-Egyptian style monument was designed and sculpted by John Thomas in 1845.

Key facts on John Houldsworth:

• Son of a Nottingham (England) cotton spinner who moved to Cranston Hill and worked in Kelvinbridge.
• Educated in Glasgow, Geneva and Heidelberg.
• Non-work interests were art and sailing.
• Lived 1807-1859.
• Married Eliza Muir in 1836.
• Was last Provost (mayor) of Anderston before the district was subsumed into Glasgow.
  

There is a place named Houldsworth in Cheshire, N. England.