Janet Jackson shared this wonderful forces photo, which was MORE than a little interesting to me, as it features generations of the men who lived in the house I currently live in. This wonderful photo are the Jacksons who lived at Croftfoot throughout the 19th Century and into the 20th. Jan told me, “The Gentleman […]
Eric Flack contacted me recently, emailing, “My great grandfather was Alex Jackson who aged 45 emigrated to Kyle Hays County Texas in 1886. He went with his wife Martha 41, John 22, Janet 18, Alex 17, Martha 15, Annabelle 10 (my grandmother) and Agnes 7. The sailed on the steamship State of Georgia arriving […]
In June 2015, I was contacted by Elizabeth Lorimer who lives in Toronto, Canada. Elizabeth asked, “Hello. In my genealogy research, I have found ancestors living at Little Udston, in the civil parish of Hamilton, in the 1871 census of the Civil Parish of Hamilton. Their neighbors in the census lived at Udston Farm. Are […]
The Jacksons were a prominent family in Blantyre, owning several farms from as far back as the 1500’s. They were amongst some of the original heritors of Blantyre, responsible for maintaining the Parish on behalf of Lord Blantyre. During the 1700’s their land and property had spread from Bardykes to the nearby hamlet at Barnhill. […]