How Bearsden streets were named: Sinclair Avenue and Morven Road

This is from the Milngavie and Bearsden Herald of 1936 (dated 22nd February but reporting on the meeting of the New Kilpatrick District Council of 13th January):

The Glasgow-Caithness Benevolent Society was established in 1836 (hence the centenary) as a way people moving from Caithness to Glasgow could stay in touch and also to send support home to Caithness.  It does not seem to have been very active after 1936.  I have found an online archive record of some of their office bearers but there are numerous Sinclairs so I cannot tell which Sinclair Mr Russell had in mind (he may have intended it as a tribute to the ‘clan’).

Morven is, of course, a particularly beautiful mountain:

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