Hi there JohnMc, I can't recall any of these name you asked about, Reagans, Rileys or McWilliams etc. Have racked my brains though. The old grey matter ain't what it used to be!
Facing Anna McMullan's house, on the other side of Spamount St, there was a family who had an older girl, I think she was very shy and older than my sis and I. She used to get The Red Star weekly and all those girlie magazines and give them to us when she finished them. Used to talk on the doorstep for many an hour, lovely wee lady she was. Don't know her name, but they let us play ball against her gable wall which led into Trainfield St. Very odd family I think, but nice with it, never bothered with anyone in the streets.
Did you know Chrissie Hall and her mother Rosie, she was a lone mother, also in Trainfield on far side of us. And Martha Walls and her family. She had a sister who was Ellen Walls who suffered "sleepy sickne" and used to go about in old clothes trying to link up with anyone, think she had Parkinson's cause she shook all over. Felt sorry for her but was afraid too... GW