This sketch was drawn before 1863 and shows the former Kirk at High Blantyre cross. This was the Old Parish church previous to the existing one. This building used to be within the walls of the current kirkyard and was demolished in 1863 the same year as the current Church was built more westwards. Stones […]
Over the next month, I’ve got lots of new photos to show you here. Like this one, shared by Claire Murray. Taken (i think in the 1972), its High Blantyre photographed from Sydes Brae Bing, looking over to Blantyre Old Parish Church. Craigmuir is on the left hand side and the church manse on the […]
This illustration shows the possible interior layout of the former, old High Blantyre Kirk, once located within the Kirkton Cemetery. Built in 1793, it had space for 360 worshippers but was not maintained very well and it a bad condition by the time it was demolished in 1863. The current High Blantyre Old Parish […]
From Hamilton Advertiser 16th January 1875, Page 2. THE POOR. “Under the superintendence of the Kirk Session of the parish church, 63 carts of coals were recently delivered amongst the poor. Messrs Henry Monteith & Co., with their well-known liberality, gave 52 carts of coals to the poor of the village of Low Blantyre. […]
At the David Livingstone Centre is a a fine eighteenth-century baptismal basin which is claimed to have belonged originally to Blantyre Parish Church. In 1933 , it was added to the Blantyre Room at the Livingstone National Memorial, Station Road. The story the bowl is not known. At the time, there was attached to it, on […]
Old Parish History: There’s been 3 parish churches in High Blantyre over the years. We all know the more “modern” Old Parish Kirk currently there since 1863, but here’s a picture of the 2nd one (which lasted from 1793 – 1863). The 1st church, a predecessor to the one pictured in Kirkton Graveyard was certainly there […]
Having been subscribed to various census and ancestry websites, I have this month been as excited as other members who noticed an entry in the 1841 census showing incredibly what is marked as: Montgomery Scott 35, and James T Kirk 30 recorded in Linlithgow, Scotland, on the night the census was taken in 1841. A […]