This photo dates from 1919. Pictures at 49 Broompark Road in the back garden of a house called “Enterkin” in my great grandfather and great grandmother John Duncan and Maggie Bowie Duncan. They had four children, Jenny, Chrissie, Margaret and John (my grandfather). None of the girls ever had any children, the youngest Jenny dying […]
From time to time, i lend my time to assisting people with ancestry and finding where they originated from. One such enquiry for assistance came from John Sutton, who on New Years Day 2014 wrote to me with the following message. “Hi. I’m trying to trace my grandfathers family. He was John Sneddon b1900. Blantyre. […]
Whilst researching the Jackson historical link with my own High Blantyre home, I uncovered various documents that may be of interest to anybody with the surname ‘Jackson’ with links to Blantyre. The ‘Jacksons’ were such an important and prominent family living in the area from the mid 1500’s, their ancestral local home being at Bardykes […]
Family members of David Livingstone would always have lived their lives in his shadow, but the story of David’s elder brother, John Livingstone is worth telling. John was about 2 years older than David, born earlier in 1811. As boys, both he and David worked together as peicers in the Blantyre Works factory owned my […]
A sad tale unfolded on Sunday 23rd March 1913 at the Village Mills, Blantyre. A tragic double drowning took the lives of two people, one of them only a boy. Some boys had been playing near the edge of the River Clyde which was flowing higher than normal due to Spring rainfall. To everyone’s horror, […]
One of the most eminent men to come to Blantyre was Mr. John Clark Forrest. Born in Shotts on 17th October 1832, John had strong connections to Blantyre. His mother was a Clark whose family had farmed Auchinraith Farm for centuries beforehand, with his grandparents buried in the High Blantyre Kirkyard. A military man at […]