Another photo from Jim Cochrane’s grans collection. Jim’s Aunt Christina Main is on the right of this photo taken around 1930. She is standing at the gate of a large house near Little Udston Farm lived in by the Nicholson Family. She was with her friend May Nicholson (pictured on the left). Christina was born in […]
Jim Cochrane shared this great family photo with us, saying “My Grannie, Annie Baird Marshall (Main). With some of her younger sisters at Little Udston Farm 1920s.” I would date this outdoor photo as 1927, for the children are thought to be Lily, Agnes and Mary. Although Udston Farm was not in Blantyre Parish, […]
Jim Cochrane sent in this photo adding, “This is my Great Grannie, Janet Edmiston Baird as a young Girl. She was born at Craigmuir Farm in 1886 so this photo probably dates from sometime in the 1890s. I believe the Edmistons may have lived in Auchintibber.” Digging a little deeper, I found out that […]
American lady Norma Marr contacted me in May 2016 writing, “Hi Paul, Recently you had a number of posts of train accidents. Here’s another sad one that you may not know about. James and Robert Patrick were my great uncles. SAD FATALITY AT BLANTYRE — Yesterday morning the bodies of James and Robert Patrick, […]
Continued from Part 1 By 1881, widowed Arthur Leggat was 70 years old and by the time had moved from Bothwell back to his birth-town of Avondale where he would see out his days. His widowed sister, Isabella Stuthers aged 53, lived and worked with him as his housekeeper in Avondale at East Newton Cottage. […]
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 […]
Jim Cochrane sent in this photo from his family collection in November 2014. Pictured is Robert Main, his Great Grandfather at Little Udston Farm, which sat just below Park House on the North of the railway. Little Udston Farm, as located just over the Redburn, sat in what is now Westcraigs in Burnbank Parish, but […]