This is one of my family photos and features my own mother, Janet Duncan in the middle. On the back is says “calder 1959” making her about 11 or 12. My mother went on to marry Joe Veverka ten years later, and has sadly passed away in 2009. Pictured left is her friend Lillias (now Addison) […]
Kim Latimer contacted me in August 2015, saying, “I am trying to find out any information on my husband’s great grandparents Peter Latimer 1884-1946 and Jane Hutchison 1891-1972. The census states they lived in midfield cottages Auchentibber and most of the family was from Blantyre.” This is a family line, I have now investigated. Let’s […]
Believed to be the 1960’s, here is the Women’s Guild pictured at High Blantyre Old Parish Church Hall. Sent in by Betty MacFarlane. Do you know any of these people or able to more accurately date the photo? I’m aware there is a gentleman in the photo, the couple at the front seems to be […]
Thanks to Dot Spears-McGuire for sending in some more photos of her family. Regarding these photos, Dot told me, “The first was taken in 1950’s Lizzie Anderson,Alice McGuire(Innes) not sure who the boy is sorry. The darker picture of the 2 men in 1958. John McGuire on left, Joe Brogan right. The lighter photo of the 2 […]
Mr James Duddy was born in 1871 in Mountpleasant, Church Hill, Donegal, Ireland, a son for Michael Duddy and Mary McCay. He moved to Scotland seeking employment and became a miner in Hamilton, where he met and married a local girl Mary Jane Wallace (b1872) on Hogmanay 1890. Children soon followed. Sadly, their daughter Susanna, […]
Dot Spears-McGuire has shared several family photos with me recently. Here are some more excellent photos of her family. Dot told me, “The group photo is 1950’s not sure where this is. From left Johnny Logan,Alice McGuire (Innes) Not sure who the lady is sorry and John McGuire (my dad). Stepping off the plane is Alice McGuire (nee […]
In 1859 this area at Auchentibber was described as, “A couple of houses named from the Muir of Blantyre coming formerly to this place, which is still divided into small portions of land that were formerly given to the Heritors of the Parish to cut peat in. Those portions do not, in some cases, exceed […]