Sunday 27th January 1901 was a solemn day for Blantyre, as congregations throughout various churches in the area, remembered the late Queen Victoria The royal monarch had passed away on 22nd January, only the week before. The churches were busy, as for many people this was a way to show their respect. The church buildings […]
Rev. John Hodgson – MD was the Minister of the second Blantyre Parish Church in the kirkyard at High Blantyre from 1809 for 23 years until 1832. The Rev. Doctor John Hodgson, son of the minister at Carmunnock, succeeded Mr. Stevenson. Born on 26th January 1781, Mr Hodgson was educated at the University of […]
Rev. Duncan Finlayson – b1917 – d2012. Duncan was a former minister of Stonefield Parish Church from 1944. Born in Elgin in 1917 at the end of the First World War, he was raised in Marybank and Strathpeffer. Duncan was the youngest in a family of three. His father was the factor in a local […]
Rev. Stewart Wright – was a minister of Blantyre Old Parish Church for 16 years from 1871 until 1887. He was the second minister to preach from the current Old Parish Church. Stewart Wright was admitted to this charge on 3rd August 1871. Born at Inverary on 15th October 1829, he was the fifth son […]
Rev. John Heriot was the 6th minister of Blantyre Parish Church in the kirkyard at Kirkton, which he worked at for 27 years from 1609 until 1636. John Heriot, the eldest son of William Heriot Baxter, burgess of Glasgow, graduated A.M. at Glasgow University in 1603, born around 1575. He was married to a […]
On Sunday 13th October 1929, the Rev. Thomas Shanks, minister of Queen Street Arbroath Congregational Church, intimated to his congregation that he had agreed to accept the call to Blantyre Congregational Church. Mr Shanks had been minister of the Congregational Church in Arbroath since 1924. Born in Airdrie in 1890, Mr Shanks’ early education […]
Ross, Rev. W. Alexander – B.D.F.S.A was a Minister at Blantyre’s East Church in 1929.Mr Ross was originally from Shetland, and studied at Aberdeen University. He took part in the Great War joining at the age of 18. He served in Ireland, Egypt and Salonica being wounded in action at the Ituma Valley in […]