I love things like this! Blantyre Project reader, Helen Jackson lives in Queensland, Australia and having ancestry and family from Blantyre, Scotland she has called her house over in Australia, ….”Blantyre“! Here’s the house sign which is proudly displayed outside, all those miles away. During the 19th and early 20th Century, Helen’s family, the Jacksons […]
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Alcorn – Mann Ancestry
Well here’s a rather interesting piece of Blantyre history with a family emigrating to Australia and forming what became known as ‘Blantyre’, Queensland, Australia! Marion Turner sent me this email saying, ” I have an article from a 1902 newspaper about a family gathering of people called ‘Alcorn’. It says that Mr William Alcorn his […]