Continuing a look at former Auchentibber resident Flora Dickson Potter’s Memoirs and research of the area. Kindly shared here by Janet Cochrane. In Flora’s words and continued from previous parts 1 and 2: “By the 1870’s coal mining and stone quarrying were the chief occupations of the Auchentibber men. Miners worked at the Blantyre Collieries […]
My research into the Nimmo family. I’ve been told by a descendent of the Nimmo’s that it’s possible the Nimmo’s came over from Ireland, but I have no idea when that could have been. James Nimmo, born about 1820, Scotland died 9 March 1883, Coal Miner. His spouse Agnes Brown was born about 1820 and […]
Robert Nimmo was born at either Clyde Row or Peesweep in Auchentibber, on 3rd September 1894. He was the second son of James and Jane Nimmo. He went on to become a solider, but sadly lost his life in North Russia at the tail end of WW1. Private Robert Nimmo was one of 14 local […]
The Clyde Row was a row of eighteen one bedroomed small homes on the Sydes Brae near Auchentibber. They were located just above Dickson’s old place, (where the present occupier sold plants till recently). The homes belonged to ironstone miners of the area and their families and opened out on to the Sydes Brae itself. […]
Life at the turn of the new Century in 1900 was not pleasant for Glasgow man John Thomson. The next few years would see him and his family in a downward spiral of bad luck, misfortune and tragedy. In June 1901, his misfortune started when he became unemployed from his job as a Stickworker. The impact […]