A new Gingerbread Group (the outfit that helps one parent families) started up in Blantyre in late October 1980. The group met in the Elizabeth Scott Centre every Wednesday evening to give single mothers and fathers a helping hand. Experts were on call to give advice on welfare, housing and other solutions. A creche was […]
Paul McGuire wrote to me saying, “I’m looking for information on my father’s family. John (Jack) McGuire, born December 16, 1916 in Blantyre, sergeant in the Scots Guards, moved to London in the 1930’s. Father Edward. Brothers Edward junior and James nick named “Happy” & Sister Kathleen. His mother’s maiden name was Elizabeth Hunter who […]
Mr. David Hunter was the maternal grandfather of David Livingstone. He was a tailor who had a shop in the Wages Building at Blantyre Works. Livingstone’s father, Neil was apprenticed to Hunter but was never an employee of the Blantyre Mills Company. Neil Livingstone married Hunter’s daughter, Agnes in 1810. David Hunter was born the […]