On Wednesday 20th March 1861 at High Blantyre, Mrs T Mackie, wife of Thomas Mackie, a dye worker gave birth to a set of triplets! All children, three boys were delivered safely and mother. It got me thinking, it’s not a subject I’ve written about before. Do you know of any other triplets being born to […]
From the Sunday Post on 20th December 1942: ” Ay, it’s a’ right for you talking, but whit a haunfu’ it is for us,” was how Blantyre miner Joseph Savage (29), Auchinraith Road, received congratulations on his wife giving birth to triplets —two boys and a girl. Born Lanarkshire Maternity Hospital, Bellshill, the children and […]
Reputed to be Britain’s oldest triplets, a story featured in the newspapers of October 1944 of how Mrs John Thomson and her brothers, Robert and John Marshall, celebrated their 66th birthday in Cambuslang. The family were originally from Blantyre and the brothers grew up to be so much alike, that their own mother was sometimes […]