Jim Leishman sent a message (some time ago) saying, “Hi Paul. I follow your page with great interest everyday. We live off Blantyre Farm Road, been there for 23 years or so. Recently started a family history search beginning with maternal line as there was more of them and looked the best option. But obviously […]
Family friend and once my neighbour, Lillias Addison contacted me in February asking, “Please could you find out about my mother’s family, Davidson. Her name was Helen and she had a sister Annie and brothers John and William.” Here are my notes now researched. Helen Wood Davidson was born on 19th March 1912 at 3.15am […]
Caitlyn Clarkson emailed me recently from her home in Canada, commenting, “You have created a wonderful website, the photographs are amazing and create such a sense of time and space. My great great grandparents lived in Blantyre for quite some time. They were Helen Miller and James Hogg. Helen Miller who married James Hogg (coal miner). Helen […]
Helen Thomas contacted me in March 2016, commenting, “I am descended from the Pollock family of Blantyre. I am the great, great, grand daughter of George Pollock. This is what we have found out about George Pollock’s parents, Marion and John. Any more information would be greatly appreciated. Marion born 1801, John born 1818. They […]
Seeing Lorna Hughes post a message online asking for some of her Blantyre ancestry, it reminded me of a family tree I had previously looked at. Lorna said,“My grandfather and greatgrandfather lived in Blantyre and were both fireman miners, I would love to find out more about their lives circa 1890-1930 ish, they were both named […]
Alan Conroy wrote to me, saying, “Hi there, My grandmother Mary Ann Quinn was born in Blantyre on 10th December 1910. Amazingly, we didn’t find this out until 2010 when she was 100 years old. Her parents had moved over to Blantyre form Ireland so her father could work in the mines. I did some […]
In August 2015, James Hislop contacted me to say, “My grandfather was James Hislop: Born 18th September, 1875, probably not in Blantyre he married on 9th February 1915 to Agnes Frew: born 09th September, 1886, High Blantyre. It would be great if you would look into my family history. Hislop/frew from High Blantyre.” Always up for an Ancestry […]