Bobbie Hamilton sent me a message saying “My husband’s Great-Grandmother, Janet Boyd, was born in Blantyre in 1870. In the 1890’s, she worked on Alexander Lambie’s farm, Pilmuir Farm, in Scotland. While working as a farm servant on the farm in 1894, she became pregnant, left the farm, returned home to Blantyre and gave birth […]
Gwyn Ogden writes, “Hi. This photo is of my Grandfather, George Thomas with his daughters Alice, Jessie and at the front, Jean. I am the youngest daughter of Jean Thomas who married into the Fleming family. They are pictured outside of their home on Main Street, High Blantyre.” If you zoom in on the photo […]
Local man Gunner Thomas Cavanagh and colleagues in the AAZ Battery. Thomas was known as “Tammy”. Photo Courtesy: Thomas Ward Featuring Blantyre Project Social Media with permission. Strictly not for use by others on or offline, our visitors said: Marion Anderson Paul Cavanagh, any relation?Barb Hicks What really amazes me is these men not only put their […]
On 9th January 2015, April Leopold Hynes contacted me saying, “So excited to find this page! My family came from Blantyre in 1923 to US and they were the Strangs. Coal miners. Thomas J Strang and Margaret Hill Strang – children were Agnes (who died as a young girl) Thomas, James, Robert, Rosina and Mary.” […]