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. Their neighbors in the census lived at Udston Farm. 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 […]
I noticed a question online a few weeks ago where Californian man Glenn Orr asked the question, “Does anyone know if the theologian James Orr had any connection to Blantyre? He was born 1844 in Glasgow, and my great great grandfather Robert Robertson Orr lived in Merry’s Row in Blantyre. There are many James Orr’s […]
On 24th April 2015, I received an ancestry request for some information from Burton Webb. Burton asked me, “Hi Paul, This might be a request from further back than you have records, but it’s worth asking. I wonder if you can find any of the descendants or relatives of Mars Niven and Susan Doane. Each of […]