Janet Herbertson was born in Blantyre in 1818. As she entered her twenties, she married local man Andrew Jackson and they settled down at their family home at Spittal, on the outskirts of Bardykes, Blantyre. Like others of the time, they planned a large family. So, in 1846, at the age of 28, Janet fell […]
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Red Rose of Bardykes
When the very first Lord Blantyre purchased the barony of Blantyre in 1598 from the Dunbars of Enterkin, he found he had bought a very small parish, with only a couple of hundred people, scattered over areas from Kirkton, Barnhill to Priory. Individual small communities existed already with prominent houses and families dominating each area. […]
Laird of Bardykes toast
According to the Mitchell Library, in 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie retreated with his downhearted army stopping briefly in Blantyre. This seems to be confirmed by the “Annals of Blantyre 1883” book which records an anecdote from a local resident, apparently passed this story from his family. It is written in the historical document, the following […]