It’s not too uncommon in history to find men, chancing their luck by marrying to two different women at the same time. It happened more than you may think and in Blantyre, I’ve reported on several occasions of finding this taking place more than 100 years ago. However, what IS uncommon, is to find this […]
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 […]
On 11th April 1938, eighteen years after committing bigamy Mrs. Helen Mackenzie, or Gordon of Summerside Place Edinburgh, was at Hamilton Sheriff Court and was sent to prison for one month. The sixty year old wept bitterly in the dock as she reflected on her crime , eighteen years prior to that sentence. Helen had […]