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This tale starts with the unhappy subject of divorce. In February 1915, Thomas Closs, a tram conductor from Airdrie was filing for divorce from his estranged wife, Blantyre woman Euphemia Logan. Euphemia was the daughter of Mrs Logan who ran the Victoria Bar in High Blantyre though by the time of the divorce request in […]
A tragic story today from over a century ago, yet worth remembering for after all, this was a man who spent much of his life in Blantyre. Samuel Dixon, an employee of the colliery company for ten years, was killed on 30th August 1915, when a fall of rock happened at Extension Mines, Ladysmith, British […]
Joy McLennan sent this interesting message, “Thomas Watson (Tam) and Agnes Thompson (her ma was Isabella MacLean) along with sons Robert, Jock, Tom, Bill, Alexander and daughters Agnes, Jean, Ann and Mary left for Canada around 1914. They were bound for Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. I’m Curious to know where they lived in Blantyre? (A Farm?) […]
A remarkable coincidence occurred in the late 19th Century when Walter Loudon was living in the very same house his wife was born in! Walter worked in Earnock Quarries in Hamilton and lived in Auchentibber. In 1910, he left Lanarkshire to seek work in Canada and was joined by his Auchentibber sweetheart Maggie Leitch in […]
Answering a knock at her door one evening in October 1950, Jean MacFarlane of 55 Craig Street, Blantyre received the happiest surprise of her life. Standing on the doorstep were her 2 daughters Helen and Anne, who live in Toronto, Canada and her 3 year old granddaughter Patricia, whom she had never met before. The […]
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 […]
Jim Cochrane messaged me, “This is Maggie Downie of Calderside Row, Auchnitibber Maybe Sometime 1900-1910. Maybe census would help to date this.” Norma Marr, also related to Maggie later told me that the photo was taken in 1904, when Maggie was 22 years old. Norma once told me, “Maggie was an amazing woman. It seems […]