Matt Lindsay, who lives in the USA, emailed me in May to say, “Hello, my name is Matt Lindsay, I have a GG…Grandmother Jean Gilfillan, where the 1841 census may shows her at “Blantyre Works Cross Row”. Of course, details kind of sketchy, but I see on one of your old maps a possible Lindsay […]
Mr. John Stewart Kennedy was born 4th January 1830. He married Emma Baker (b1833-d1930) on 14th October 1858 in USA and died 31st October 1909. His parents were John Kennedy and Isabella Stewart. His father was from Stirling, his mother from Glasgow and they had settled in Blantyre after their marriage to pursue work […]
I noticed a question online a few weeks ago where Californian man Glenn Orr asked the question, “Does anyone know if the theologian James Orr had any connection to Blantyre? He was born 1844 in Glasgow, and my great great grandfather Robert Robertson Orr lived in Merry’s Row in Blantyre. There are many James Orr’s […]
I hope I do this story some justice, especially as it ends with a kind and decent man in New York, who is very proud of his Blantyre heritage and especially as I’m now in regular contact with him. I’ve managed to find out some more details whilst researching this story, which I hope are […]
Isla Arendell (nee McInally) wrote to me with the following message, “Further to your post about ‘Fin me Oot’, I thought you might like to hear about our family connection. My parents John and Nan McInally (nee Murphy) emigrated to the States in 1951. My father grew up on Baird’s Rows and my mother in […]