Batters, Mr. John – When John Batters was born in 1872 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, his father, Walter Batters Senior was 26 and his mother, Jean Hastie, was 27. John moved to Blantyre in 1881 when he was 9 years old and lived at Grimson’s Buildings then later at Coopermindale Place. He had one son, […]
Walter Batters was born in 1846 in Carluke, to William Batters and Jane Black, Walter Batters Senior and was an ironmonger by trade. The Batters family arrived in Blantyre around 1877 coming initially from Carluke then latterly via Hamilton. Walter Batters married Jeannie Hastie (the daughter of a High Blantyre Ironmonger James Hastie) on […]