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Thomas Bolton 1861-1877 & William Bolton 1864-1877

October 22, 2020

On this anniversary of the Blantyre Pit Disaster, we remember two more individuals, brothers no less who both lost their lives on 22nd October 1877. Not to be confused with another pair of Bolton Brothers (their cousins) who also lost their lives. This is the story of Thomas Bolton and his younger brother William, one […]

James Bolton 1860-1877 & Thomas Bolton 1862-1877

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October 21, 2020

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This is the story about two young, teenage brothers who lost their lives in the Blantyre Pit Disaster of 1877. James Bolton was born in 1860 in Hamilton, the son of Ann Maria Shields and John Bolton (b1820-1870). His father John had been married before but his first wife Janet Aitken died in 1859. As […]