In 1910’s Blantyre, there was perhaps never a more awkward or problematic situation than being born in Blantyre to German’s immigrants and being forced to sign up for the army, knowing your parents had been imprisoned. Thats exactly what happened to William Siegel of Blantyre, a well known conscientious objector (unwilling to conscript or fight). […]
Alois Schlothauer (Slater) The Slater’s story at Merry’s Rows is an interesting one. Alois Schlothauer was born in 1866 in Germany, the son of German parents. He eventually married in Scotland and moved to Merry’s Rows in Blantyre in 1902, after obtaining a job at Merry & Cunningham’s Pit. In 1914, when […]
UNIQUE SOCIAL—BLANTYRE EAST (GERMAN) CONGREGATION. Hamilton Advertiser on 3rd January 1903, reported on an event where a Blantyre minister made German immigrants in Blantyre feel more welcomed at New Year. It says, “On the 29th December 1902, Pastor Geyer engaged a large saloon carriage to bring all the Germans from Blantyre and Hamilton to […]