Batters, Mr. John – When John Batters was born in 1872 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, his father, Walter Batters Senior was 26 and his mother, Jean Hastie, was 27. John moved to Blantyre in 1881 when he was 9 years old and lived at Grimson’s Buildings then later at Coopermindale Place. He had one son, […]
Walter Batters was born in 1846 in Carluke, to William Batters and Jane Black, Walter Batters Senior and was an ironmonger by trade. The Batters family arrived in Blantyre around 1877 coming initially from Carluke then latterly via Hamilton. Walter Batters married Jeannie Hastie (the daughter of a High Blantyre Ironmonger James Hastie) on […]
Batters Ironmongers was a former late 19thand 20th Century shop on the north side of Glasgow Road at numbers 142 and 144, located on the lower floor of Millar’s buildings, stone tenements, situated between John Street and Clark Street. The shop was 144, the house above 142 and both were located mid terrace in a […]
Lynn Dougela messaged me in January saying, “Paul my brother found this in his house shed and wonder if you have any information on this doctor from Blantyre? Where he practiced and when or anything you might know? Thanks” Here are the notes I have on Dr Fisher. Dr David Keir Fisher, LRCP, LRCS, […]
Abbeygreen Building – is a former building of several homes, which were located at 2 Church Street. The name first appears in the 1901 census and the construction was likely around that time, the previous homes on that site showing a different configuration on the 1898 map. Abbeygreen Building is not to be confused […]
Abbeygreen Manse – was the former Manse house for the nearby Burleigh Church (East United Free Church) and had address 4 Church Street adjoining to Abbeygreen Building at 2 Church Street. The first mention in documentation appears to be in 1901, where the Rev John Burleigh, then a 50-year-old widower was living with 28-year-old […]
Thank you to Michael Barrett who emailed me a copy of this old lawyer’s letter showing that his father’s business RG Barrett bought 19 Church Street from the liquidators of former Thomas Baxter & Sons in June 1973. Such letters are like gold-dust to a local historian in being able to determine and record accurate […]