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  Heather's Family History - pafg10 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
CORBET William was born on Jun 18 1815 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
CORBET Ann was born on Dec 02 1836 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
CORBET Margaret was born on Jan 05 1857 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
www.heather5.com /pafg10.htm   (579 words)

  
 Heather's Family History - pafg66 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
SHEARER Rachel Fyfe was born on Jul 31 1885 in Rutherglen, Lanark, Scotland.
DUNN Agnes was born in Dec 1850 in Cambuslang, Lanark, Scotland.
PATERSON Elizabeth was born on Jul 18 1872 in Cambuslang, Lanark, Scotland.
www.heather5.com /pafg66.htm   (1067 words)

  
 History of Blantyre
Blantyre is situated approximately 15 kms south of the city of Glasgow in what was and is sometimes referred to as Lanarkshire.
In size Blantyre is not a large town, the parish being approximately 10 kms in length with an average width of about 1.5 km.
The oldest of the Blantyre Mills was erected in 1785 by the late Mr.
www.mcpitz.com /blant/blantyre.html   (3615 words)

  
 Blantyre Mining Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Blantyre mining disaster which happened on the morning of October 22, 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was and remains Scotland’s worst.
Blantyre Colliery, William Dixons pit numbers 1 and 2 both blasted killing 207 miners.
The dedication reads "William Dixon Ltd. in memory of 240 of their workmen who were killed by explosions in Blantyre Colliery on 22nd October, 1877 and 2nd July 1879 and many of whom are buried here"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blantyre_Mining_Disaster   (226 words)

  
 Blantyre on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Blantyre was founded in 1876 as a Church of Scotland mission station and was named for the birthplace of David Livingstone.
In 1956, Blantyre was combined with Limbe to form one city.
Women as religious and political praise singers within African institutions: the case of the CCAP Blantyre Synod and political parties in Malawi.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Blantyre.asp   (441 words)

  
 Blantyre Hillwalking & Rambling Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Blantyre Hillwalking and Rambling Club has about sixty members with roughly equal numbers of men and women of ages ranging from under twenty to over seventy.
The club does not have graded walks, and members are expected to be responsible for their own safety on the hills.
Non-members are welcome to come to evening meetings and - providing that there are places available and they are adequately prepared for a full day in the hills - they are welcome to try out one or two of the bus meets as well.
www.hamiltonite.mcmail.com /Hillwalking/BHWC.html   (255 words)

  
 Scotland vacation, Glasgow to Langholm Travel Route
One of the last places in Scotland to be visited by Mary Queen of Scots.
It is built on the banks of the Clyde near a series of waterfalls which are one of the most spectacular, not only in Scotland, but in the whole of Northern Europe.
Old Farmhouse, on a farm in the South West Scotland near Castle Douglas.
www.aboutscotland.com /tour/glalang.html   (602 words)

  
 Blantyre District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Grand Master of Scotland the Rev. Bro.David Ness M.A. chaired the meeting assisted by Brothers, The Rev. J.Brisby and Digby S. Brown along with a deputation from the Grand Lodge of Canada led by Bro.
The last time the "Walk" was in Blantyre this Lodge won the Rosebowl for the largest increase in membership and again won it in 1986 a unique feat for any Lodge.
BLANTYRE BLUEBELL L.L.O.L. This Lodge was formed in November 1909 with Sister McEwan as the first Worthy Mistress.
www.bellshill57.fsnet.co.uk /blantyre.htm   (1089 words)

  
 HAMILTON - pafg02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Margaret Lewis [Parents] was born on 20 Oct 1811 in Camprey, Lanark, Scotland.
Ann Hamilton was born on 4 Jan 1818 in Cambusnethan, Scotland.
Susan Hamilton was born on 17 Apr 1820 in Barony, Scotland.
uqconnect.net /~zzehamil/pafg02.htm   (679 words)

  
 Wells researchers of Scotland etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John took her and the family back to Scotland for medical care and she died 28 Mar 1899 at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland.
Their son, one of at least 12 children, William John C. born 1853 of Strathbungo, (Govan) Glasgow was a tinsmith.
According to my records he married Martha Oliver from Scotland and in 1776, they immigrated to USA and settled on a farm in the State of MARYLAND.
www.wells-genealogy.com /wells2.htm   (1849 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Sport - Blantyre at a canter for title win
BLANTYRE crowned their 40th anniversary celebrations in style, claiming the Premier League title with an 80-71 win over defending champions Prestwick in the final at Perth yesterday.
Prestwick - title holders in 2002 and '04, in their fourth consecutive final and in the frame for a record-breaking 12th title - started as the sure-fire favourites, but Blantyre never let them into the match and ran out as worthy winners.
Finishing on the plus side for Blantyre were Gerry Sullivan and Tom Wallace, but there were narrow defeats for Jim McCann and Scot Bishop.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /sport.cfm?id=194322005   (221 words)

  
 dd2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It also means he would have left his parents and siblings at around the age of 18 or 19 and would have been married in Glasgow in 1793, a year before the Niel Livingstone family was evicted from Ulva.
This seems like an awful lot of moving around, but then times were tough and you went to where the work was.
The fact that they ended up in Blantyre makes me believe that Donald was definitely closely related to Neil Livingstone.
pages.sbcglobal.net /rlivingston1488/dd2.htm   (655 words)

  
 Scotland - October 2000
Scotland wrapped up their tour at Ramat-Gan with another 5-1 points victory to return home series winners overall.
Scotland, favourites to win this test did so in style when they added to the their opening day's points tally of 26-10 with an overwhealming 32-4 points victory in the final sessions at the Inveralmond Stadium in West Lothian to run out 58-14 victors.
Scotland's ambassador to bowls Willie Wood MBE heads the select group of Alex Marshall, Robert Marshall, Graeme Archer, Andrew Lauder, Gary Mackie, George Sneddon, Raymond Logan, Jim McIntyre, David Peacock, Alister White and Robert Paterson.
www.lawnbowls.com.au /scotlandoct2000.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre
When Livingstone became the first European to explore large areas of Africa between 1841 and 1873, his exploits reported in his journals were as avidly followed as the first journey to the moon 100 years later - and were just as hazardous.
The David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre successfully conveys the heroic nature of his life from his earliest days to his funeral in Westminster Abbey.
Shuttlerow in Blantyre was built as a cotton mill, powered by the river Clyde.
www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisit_livingstone.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Blantyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Blantyre is a burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Essentially a large suburb of Hamilton (Blantyre's pop.
Blantyre is the site for the famous Blantyre Mining Disaster, where 207 miners were killed when a coal mine exploded due to methane gas.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Blantyre.htm   (181 words)

  
 Pettigrew Findings
David I, King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153, Earl of Huntingdon, was impressed by the Normans he encountered when he visited England, and invited Norman families from the South West of England to emigrate to the Kingdom of Scotland.
William and Jane lived in the Dysholm (a corruption of Davisholm) cottage on the boundary of Blantyre and Cambuslang parishes, on the banks of the Rotten Calder river.
Her father was James Connell, shoe maker, and her mother Euphemia Imrie died of senile decay (aged 76) at Malcolmwood on 29 May 1884 and was buried in Blantyre, 2 June 1884, widow of William Morrison.
www.dgdclynx.plus.com /bath/findings.html   (2791 words)

  
 Blantyre's Ain Website... Bla'antir's Ain Website
Residents are invited to visit the Blantyre Forum and air their views about whatever they like.
And, what is probably quite unique, Residents of Blantyre can have their families Memorial posted in In Loving Memory complete with a photograph of the Headstone, for all the world to see.
Finally, this web site could not exist if it were not for the local businesses and tradesmen who sponsor it through their advertising.
www.blantyre.biz   (462 words)

  
 Intense Photonics opens state-of-the-art facility for manufacturing new generations of fibre optic chips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
High Blantyre, Scotland, November 8, 2001 --- Today, Intense Photonics opens its optical chip manufacturing facility in High Blantyre, Scotland.
This is the demand that Intense Photonics will meet from the new High Blantyre plant, by designing and prototyping optical networking devices such as lasers and switches, and then manufacturing them in volume.
Equipment for designing, prototyping and testing is already in place in the facility, and plant for volume manufacturing of commercial chips - including chemical vapour deposition tools, plasma and reactive ion etchers, as well as equipment for the company's unique QWI processing stage - will be installed starting in January 2002.
www.wordsun.com /ip9a.html   (1223 words)

  
 Overview of Blantyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A settlement in South Lanarkshire, Blantyre lies on the River Clyde, 4 miles (6 km) north of East Kilbride and 8 miles (12 km) south east of Glasgow.
The explorer David Livingstone was born in a mill tenement in Low Blantyre in 1813.
High Blantyre developed in associated with coal mining in the 19th Century and in the 20th Century the settlement further expanded with industries including quarrying, engineering and the manufacture of concrete products.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townfirst994.html   (197 words)

  
 dd3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is my suspicion that John Lauri had close connections with kinfolk in Angus and that it was thru his marriage to Mary Livingstone in Blantyre that some of the other marriages in the Livingstone family came to be connected with Kinnettles, Angus.
1          Mary Livingstone          b: 4 Feb, 1776 in Lettermore, Parish of Kilninian and Kilmore, Argyll, Scotland
    2 Mary Laurie b: 7 Mar, 1807 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland                    
pages.sbcglobal.net /rlivingston1488/dd3.htm   (166 words)

  
 paintball Blantyre paintballing sites stag hen party corporate event field park
Paintball sites in Blantyre are varied and cater for a wide range of players.
Many Scotland paintballing parks cater for corporate groups, stag and hen parties and even children's parties but it is best to enquire at the time of booking as there are sometimes special rates available.
Many Scotland paintballing parks have different game fields, including woodland fields, speed arenas and concept zones which make for a really exciting full or half day out.
www.justpaintball.co.uk /site_guide/Blantyre.htm   (164 words)

  
 Alexander Mann/Margaret Rankin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chr: 1 Mar 1753 at: Blantyre, Lanark, Scotland
Born: 28 Aug 1765 at: Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Born: 2 Feb 1793 at: Priesfield, Blantyre, Lanark, Scotland
www.lazeut.com /genweb/lincspaul/fam01624.htm   (145 words)

  
 Presbytery of Aberdeen  Partnership with Blantyre
We the presbyteries of Aberdeen of the Church of Scotland and of Blantyre City of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian covenant together in a partnership in which Jesus Christ binds us together.
The Presbytery of Aberdeen and Blantyre City Presbytery and their congregations will exchange spiritual or material gifts that will assist in reaching out to the needy and encourage one another.
The Presbytery of Aberdeen and Blantyre City Presbytery will together explore areas of cooperation for the growth and benefit of the partnership as the Holy Spirit may lead us, especially in the areas of worship, evangelism, social concern, ecumenical ventures, Christian education, women’s organisations, youth work, ministerial and lay training.
www.presbaberdeen.org.uk /blantyre_covenant.htm   (546 words)

  
 Enjoy Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It has withstood the ravages of time well and is still hugely impressive.
Southwest of Blantyre is the Museum of Scottish Country Life, Philipshill Road, Wester Kittochside, East Kilbride, which gives an insight into the lives of people in rural Scotland.
Buses run regularly from Buchanan bus station; take nos 63 or 67 for Blantyre and nos 55 or 56 for Bothwell.
www.travelrate.co.uk /sc/guide/glasgow/glas_52.htm   (274 words)

  
 Hogg Families
1808 in Douglas, Scotland m: 1828 in Blantyre, Scotland d: Abt.
ROBERT2 HOGG (ROBERT1) was born 1743 in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland
William and Barbara were immigrants from Scotland to America in 1682 on the
www.angelfire.com /bc/emhogg/families.html   (2195 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - Evangelistic Explorer: David Livingstone
He viewed his main purpose in life to be that of an evangelist and shared the gospel wherever he went.
Born on March 19, 1813, in Blantyre, Scotland, David Livingstone was raised in a Godly home.
His relaxed childhood was shortened when at the tender age of ten he went to work at a factory.
www.crosswalk.com /family/home_school/1327908.html   (1435 words)

  
 Records of Blantyre Mission - Collection 149   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Microfilm of the monthly, and later quarterly, journal of the Church of Scotland, LIFE AND WORK....
This collection contains only the "Blantyre Mission Supplement" of that magazine, which details the activities of the mission station at Blantyre, Malawi.
Originals are housed in the National Library of Scotland and the Library, University of Edinburgh.
www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/GUIDES/149.htm   (275 words)

  
 MINES IN SCOTLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Some years ago in my folk singing days, I came across a ballad entitled "The Blantyre Explosion" which was a story about a colliery disaster in the Scottish mining fields near to
Locked away and forgotten in my head for some time, the song was rekindled when my next door neighbour handed me some old paper cuttings of mining scenes.
Amongst these, to my great delight, was the original report on the High Blantyre disaster dated November 3rd 1877.
www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /bmd/blantyre.htm   (261 words)

  
 Ancestors of Alexander DAVIDSON
Alexander married Rebecca STEWART, daughter of John STEWART and Ann YOUNG, on 22 September 1871 in Blantyre, Lanark, Scotland.
(Rebecca STEWART was born in 1850 in Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.
At the time of marriage Alexander and Rebecca were resident at Blantyre Works, Blantyre, Scotland.
www.btinternet.com /~g.reece/284.htm   (100 words)

  
 Cameron Clan of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
2 Charolette CAMERON b: August 13, 1870 in Ardnamurchan, Scotland d: March 05, 1933 in Meigle, Ardnamurchan, Scotland Age at birth of first child: 28 est.
WALKER b: April 28, 1871 in Libberton, Lanark, Scotland (Scottish Highlands) d: March 23, 1910 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland Age at birth of first child: 27 est.
WALKER b: 1902 in Blantyre, Scotland Number of children: 3
www.jimblackstone.com /Web_Pages/Cameron.htm   (964 words)

  
 Blantyre
Three cases of bacteremia caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 in Blantyre, Malawi.
Blantyre Synod ordains first woman minister.(Edna Navaya)(Brief Article) (Presbyterian Record)
Hotels in Blantyre fully Booked for SADC Summit: Malawi Minister.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0807858.html   (215 words)

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