“It’s great to have friends”. That’s what Philip and Maureen Rooney (centre) feeling in December 1977 when Tom Berry handed them £225. Mr Berry, along with Andrew Semple (fourth from left) were both friends of Mr and Mrs Rooney. The three men all served on the committee of Blantyre’s Doon Inn Social club. When Tom […]
Kathleen Snider wrote, “I’d like to find out about my grandparents, Arthur J McCauley and Bridget Barry who were married on 1st March, 1880 in Blantyre, Scotland. He was 24 years old and she was 21 years old. “ Looking into this in some detail given the Blantyre connection, I was able to respond with: […]
It’s for a long time been known, that most Blantyre women are strong minded and can take matters into their own hands when the situation arises. One such occasion arose in 1909, where a High Blantyre woman called police to her husband, after it was discovered he was living “two lives”, married also at the […]
Continued from Part 1 ,this is an extract of Mary Berry’s journals from 08 November 1805. Speaking of hundreds of children employed in the Cotton Mills and conditions inside Blantyre works, Mary writes of her visit that day, “In the mean time all such care is taken of these children as perhaps in such a situation is […]
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 […]