Blantyre Project reader, David used the free ancestry request service on my website to ask, “Please can you help find out things about my family? My great, grandfather’s name was Archibald McCartney Baillie. My grandfather’s name was Andrew Walker Baillie his D.O.B was 10/02/1911″ If it’s got a Blantyre connection, I’m always happy to research […]
Danny Mearns a member of Friends of Cambusnethan Priory found this plate whilst digging in a field below the Priory in September 2017. Posting it online, he wanted to know a little more about it. From my own reference book, I was able to provide the following: McLellan, Mr. James – Born in Hamilton […]
Norma Marr in Canada recently sent me a heads up about an interesting Canadian man, who was born in High Blantyre. She found a brief record on a Canadian ancestry website and copied it across to me, writing William John Gourley, 1880-1956, was born in High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and moved to Calgary, Alberta where he […]
Alan Reardon of Allers Farm contacted me back in December 2014 with this request (sorry Alan, its taken so long to get round to looking at this!). He said, ” I have been sent some letters and pictures from Colorado USA about a Family called Jardine. Thomas Jardine died 1930 stayed at 345 Main street in […]
On the corner of Glasgow Road & at the bottom of Stonefield Road was David Fisher’s yard. (Contrary to popular belief, the corner building was not Mickeys Cafe which was actually nearby on Stonefield Road) David manufactured wrought iron gates, fences and offered general blacksmith (smiddy) services. The main office and showroom faced out on […]
This photo was given to me in the mid 1990’s by the late historian Neil Gordon. (Neil used to live 3 doors up from my parents and knew of my growing interest in local history). Actually, its a newspaper photo and wasn’t scanned in particularly high resolution. The scribble I made on that day, told […]
In Spring 2014, I was given a copy of an old account of various historical events in Blantyre, primarily centering around Barnhill. This old account was given to Alex Rochead’s wife when she was a teacher at Auchinraith Primary. The words were actually written much earlier around 1940 and they relate to events 80 years […]