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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 […]
This is Walter and Maggie Louden pictured in the 1910s. Jim Cochrane who shared this photo told me, “They lived in Auchintibber and were friends of my Great Grandparents Robert and Janet Main Photo. It is possibly 1910 or thereabouts. The Loudens apparently emigrated to Canada sometime after this photo was taken.” Wanting to […]
In June 2015, I was contacted by Elizabeth Lorimer who lives in Toronto, Canada. Elizabeth asked, “Hello. In my genealogy research, I have found ancestors living at Little Udston, in the civil parish of Hamilton, in the 1871 census of the Civil Parish of Hamilton. Â Their neighbors in the census lived at Udston Farm. Â Â Are […]
Pictured here in 1954 is Margaret Nimmo (now Margaret Nimmo Lehmann) Margaret was born in Blantyre but now lives in Canada. She told me, “This is me in Primary 1 at High Blantyre Primary (1956) Mrs. Glen was my teacher.  In the smaller pic is me at age 3 standing on the window sill of the […]