Jim Watson was born in 1893 in Newton, Cambuslang, the eldest child of Alexander (Alex) Watson and his wife Janet Scott. The couple were married in Cambuslang in 1893 and eventually had 8 children. The 1901 census shows the couple living at Minshall, Blantyre with James, Elizabeth, Agnes, Janet. By the time the 1911 […]
Continuing a look at Blantyre’s World War One Soldiers. Researched exclusively by local woman, Elizabeth Grieve and shared here with thanks. Today is the turn of Private John Montague. John Montague was born in Auchinleck in 1886, the eldest son of Patrick (McTague) or Montague and his wife Rosanna Higgins, who were married in […]
Elizabeth Grieve contacted me recently saying, “I was doing some family research recently on my extended family’s war dead from World War One and I got to thinking of those buried in our local cemetery, who died at home and probably have no family locally to visit their graves. Between 1914-1918 the Commonwealth War […]