Heather McKnight-Wendt, a Blantyre Project reader living in Germany shared these photos. The little girl is her gran around 1913, Margaret McKnight neé Lees who was nicknamed “Meg.” The second photo is of Elisabeth Lees who was attending her daughter Meg’s wedding in 1945. Finally, in the purple dress, grown up Margaret “Meg” McKnight (neé […]
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Allison Place, Springwell, Blantyre
From the illustrated book, “Blantyre Glasgow Road South – The Real Story” by Paul Veverka (c) 2017 One of the largest and oldest properties in Springwell on Glasgow Road was the well known and heavily populated former ‘Allison Place.’ Constructed in 1878 by Robert Lindsay for John Heriot of Wishaw, his daughter Ann Heriot, (a […]
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Liddell – Cauldwell Ancestry
I was contacted earlier today by Pat Donnelly by email who wrote “Hi Paul I seen your post today re Robert Sneddon. I have been researching my Family tree for a while now, and was surprised to see a link with your research to my tree. My Great Granddad Was John Liddell (different spelling from […]