Lisa Stebbing has provided this sad story of a woman who lost 6 grandsons in the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877. Lisa kindly put together a story which certainly supplements the mining stories on the Blantyre Project website. If your surname is Gemmel, Muir or Reid, this may be particularly interesting. Elizabeth Reid lost six […]
This family tree kindly shared by Lisa Stebbing of Melbourne, Australia, shows the impact clearly on families during the 1877 Blantyre Pit Disaster. Spare a thought for elderly Elizabeth Reid nee Walker who lost SIX grandsons in the blast! William, James and Matthew Gemmell were brothers. They were cousins to William Muir, and William and […]