Private David Kenohan was just 34 years old when he was killed on Saturday 4th May 1918 following wounds he had received whilst fighting in Egypt. Some records have his surname as Kernohan, or Kernoghan The Blantyre man was fighting with the 5th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. David was married to Elizabeth Sneddon. With […]
Malcolm Dow was born on 1st April 1915 the son of master butcher Daniel Dow and Mary McCormick. On 4th August 1937, he married his sweetheart Jemima Sneddon (Mina) in Glasgow in secret. He was 22 years old at the time living at 40 Morris Crescent. Malcolm worked as an Insurance agent prior to his […]
I was contacted earlier today by Pat Donnelly by email who wrote “Hi Paul I seen your post today re Robert Sneddon. I have been researching my Family tree for a while now, and was surprised to see a link with your research to my tree. My Great Granddad Was John Liddell (different spelling from […]
From time to time, i lend my time to assisting people with ancestry and finding where they originated from. One such enquiry for assistance came from John Sutton, who on New Years Day 2014 wrote to me with the following message. “Hi. I’m trying to trace my grandfathers family. He was John Sneddon b1900. Blantyre. […]
Following the 1877 pit explosion, Blantyre descended into a pit of grief and sorrow for many months after. The tragedy of the mining disaster which saw over 200 men and boys from the village lose their lives , touched almost every family. The following is a ballad, the music now lost, but words preserved from […]