There were several McCulloch males who died in the Blantyre Pit Disaster. Whilst a John McCulloch and his father John McCulloch died, there was also a Thomas McCulloch, but he was not the brother of John (despite John actually having a brother named Thomas). However, there is more than a hint in the ancestry of […]
The discovery was made in early July 1916 that a considerable quantity of goods had disappeared from the coachhouse at Craighead Estate, Blantyre. Though the boxes and other receptacles in which the articles had been stored were found roped as they bad been left by the caretaker, examination showed that they had been entered, some […]
Blue-eyed Jessie McCulloch McCutcheon returned to her comfortable Blantyre home in June 1930, after being missing for 10 days. The 16-year-old girl had been employed at an Ayrshire farm when she vanished, and her mother had made many anxious inquiries, though these proved fruitless. When the family was reunited, Jessie was once more happy by the side of […]