With thanks to Duncan Slater who sent in this photo of his family in 1937. Pictured outside Blantyre’s Merrys Rows that year is Duncan’s parents, sister Sadie, brother Alex and Duncan himself in the picture, a baby held by his mother. The dogs name was Major. This treasured photo is one of several Duncan has […]
This treasured family photo was kindly shared by Duncan Slater and was taken outside #1 Priory street in 1938. In the photo is Duncan’s mother with her children. Duncan is actually the baby and in the photo also is his elder sister, Sadie. The Slater family were amongst numerous families to move from the […]
During February 1931, Mr. Frank Wilson was an unemployed miner, living at 45 Merry’s Rows, Blantyre. On Monday 9th February 1931, Frank and his wife were clearly finding things difficult when the wife ventured across Glasgow Road and the railway to Craighead, to the woodland, intending on gathering some firewood. She headed towards the bing at […]
Mr James Duddy was born in 1871 in Mountpleasant, Church Hill, Donegal, Ireland, a son for Michael Duddy and Mary McCay. He moved to Scotland seeking employment and became a miner in Hamilton, where he met and married a local girl Mary Jane Wallace (b1872) on Hogmanay 1890. Children soon followed. Sadly, their daughter Susanna, […]
I noticed a question online a few weeks ago where Californian man Glenn Orr asked the question, “Does anyone know if the theologian James Orr had any connection to Blantyre? He was born 1844 in Glasgow, and my great great grandfather Robert Robertson Orr lived in Merry’s Row in Blantyre. There are many James Orr’s […]
On 11th November 2014, Megan McHugh contacted me on Facebook to say, “This is Robert Hastie, my Great-Grandfather. He was in WWI.” Attached was an old photo of Robert in uniform. Wanting to help Megan more with filling in some details about Roberts life, and with her help by providing me with a few comments, […]