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Wilma Bolton, author of the two best selling local history books for this area, Black Faces and Tackety Boots / True Stories from the Coal Mines of Lanarkshire and Pit Props and Ponies / True Stories from the Coal Mines of Lanarkshire has joined forces with Blantyre’s Ain Website.

She has given us articles relating to old time Blantyre families which she copied from the Hamilton Advertisers while she was doing research for her books on the local coal miners and mining families.

Having previously supplied the information to the Blantyre Heritage Group the articles (mainly Golden / Diamond wedding anniversaries and obituaries etc., were already available for the public to browse on their wonderful Local History discs available at Hamilton Town House Reference Library and Blantyre Library.

However, exiles looking for information on their family history were unable to access these discs and being an avid family historian with Blantyre roots going back to 1851, Wilma feels that Blantyre’s Ain Website is the ideal way to take the descendents of these families back through the mists of time and rediscover forgotten family history.

So enjoy the archives and learn a bit more about your heritage and the Blantyre Folk who helped shape it...

Major John Ness
Alexander McMillan, J.P.
Mrs George Madden
James Brownlie
Mr and Mrs Robert McKechnie
Peter Dewar
Alexander Watson
Alick Campbell
Bob Gillon
Wm. C. McDougal
Alexander McMillan McGrouther
Hugh Guy
Mr and Mrs John McDonald
Mr and Mrs George McLaughlin
Cecil P. Welsh D.S.M.
Charles Forrest
David Moffat
Edward Liddel
Francis Dunsmuir
Frank Wilson
George Dick
Mr George Pate, O.B.E., J.P.
George Stewart
Isaac Bell
Joseph McNeil
James Miller
John Muir
John McMaster Findlay
John Thomson
Neil Douglas
Patrick Powers
Robert Gray
Mrs Maxwell
William Lockart
Gavin Laird
Mrs McGhie and Mrs McLean
Mr and Mrs John Mains
Mr and Mrs William Izett
Mr William Small
Mr and Mrs John Berry
Robert Reid
John Hastie
Robert Russell
Edward McGowan