Old Photograph Sunnyside Road Coatbridge Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and carriage, people and buildings on Sunnyside road in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Coatbridge is situated about 10 miles east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area.

Robert Lees, born on July 3, 1842 in Coatbridge, was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and the Wisconsin State Assembly. He emigrated from Coatbridge to Cross, Wisconsin. America. Edward Lees, his father, was a member of the Assembly. During the American Civil War, Lees was a member of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army and served with the Iron Brigade. He was wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was a member of the Assembly in 1873 before representing the 29th District of the Senate. He was elected Buffalo County, Wisconsin judge in 1881 and held the position until his death. In addition, he was a member of the Alma, Wisconsin School Board. Lees was a Democrat. On March 4, 1865, Lees married Mary Baertsch. They had six children. Lees died of a stroke in La Crosse, Wisconsin on September 21, 1908. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph War Memorial Garlieston Scotland

Old photograph of the War Memorial in Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

World War I Roll of Honour

King's Own Scottish Borderers
Private, JOHN EDGAR
Private, JAMES GULLINE
Private, PETER GULLINE
Private, JOHN MAXWELL
Private, JOHN NEIL
Lance Corporal, THOMAS ORR
Private, SAM SCOTT
Lance Corporal, ROBT THOMSON
Private, PETER WATT

Royal Scots Fusiliers
Private, JAMES CAMPBELL
Private, WILLIAM HANNAH
Private, GEORGE MARSHALL
Private, ROBERT MARSHALL
Private, DOUGLAS McCALLIE
Private, WILLIAM ROBB
Private, ROBERT THOMSON

Royal Scots
Corporal, JAMES FLEMING
Private, JOHN KENNEDY
Private, SAM McCLURE
Private, GEORGE McKIE

Scottish Rifles
Private, ANDREW McCALLUM
Sergeant, HUGH McMEEKING
CQMS, WM McMEEKING
Signalman, R W STRAITON

Scots Guards
Sergeant, ROBERT BARRY
Private, ALEXANDER GIBB

Cameron Highlanders
Private, ROBERT GULLINE
Private, GEORGE KIRK
Private, SAM McCLUNE
Lance Corporal, PETER SMITH

Black Watch
Private, ROBERT HUGHES
Private, CHARLES KERR

Highland Infantry
Private, JOHN W McGREADIE
Private, FRED KIRK

Gordon Highlanders
Sergeant, ALEXR McLELLAN

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Private, JOHN MILLIGAN

Seaforth Highlanders
Lieutenant, STUART M McMONNIES

London Scottish Regiment
Corporal, JAMES ORR

Royal Marines Light Infantry
Private, DOUGLAS R M HANNAY

Royal Garrison Artillery
Private, BAIRD KIRK

Royal Navy
Able Seaman, DAVID McGLUNE

New Zealander
Sergeant, DAVID S CAVEN

Canadians
Private, JOHN D HANNAY
Private, JAMES A HIGHET
Lance Corporal, A M MILROY

AUSTRALIANS
Corporal, JAMES SMITH

Mercantile Marine
Captain, JAMES STEVENSON
Cadet, ALEX HILL

World War 2 Roll of Honour

Private, DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Stoker, ALEX NICHOLSON, Royal Navy
Sergeant, Navigator, DAVID R HYSLOP
Sergeant, Air Gunner, WM McC LATIMER, Royal Air Force

Garlieston is 94 miles South from Glasgow and Paisley



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Old Photograph Whithorn Priory Scotland

Old photograph of the Priory in Whithorn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This Scottish medieval abbey that also served as a cathedral was founded around the middle of the twelfth century by Fergus King of Galloway, Lord of Galloway Clan MacDowall, with Gille Aldan, Bishop of Galloway, in the reign of King David I of Scotland, for Premonstratensian Canons, referred colloquially in Britain as the White Canons. Some of the Priors were: Maurice, who swore fealty to King Edward I of England in 1296; Gavin Dunbar, who rose to be Archbishop of Glasgow; and James Beaton, successively Archbishop of Glasgow and of St. Andrews, Fife, and chancellor of the kingdom. Whithorn was long a noted place of pilgrimage, owing to its connection with the venerated memory of Saint Ninian. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Fairfield Shipyard Govan Scotland

Old photograph of Fairfield Shipyard in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow. Fairfields, as it is often known, was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through the First World War and the Second World War. It also built many transatlantic liners, including record breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific, such as the Blue Riband winning sisters RMS Campania and RMS Lucania. At the other end of the scale Fairfields built fast cross channel mail steamers and ferries for locations around the world. These included ships for the Bosphorus crossing in Istanbul and some of the early ships used by Thomas Cook for developing tourism on the River Nile.

Charles Randolph, who began trading as a millwright, founded the business as Randolph & Elliott by building engines and machinery in the Tradeston district of Glasgow in 1834. John Elder joined the business in 1852 and it then diversified into shipbuilding as Randolph, Elder and Company, acquiring the Govan Old Shipyard in 1858. The first ship was built in 1861. The business moved to a new yard at the former Fairfield Farm at the Govan riverside in 1868, changing its name to the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, after the old farm, in 1886, at which time it was owned by Sir William Pearce.

In 1968 the company was made part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, which failed in 1971. As part of the recovery deal, Fairfields was formed into Govan Shipbuilders in 1972, which was itself later nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. On the breakup of British Shipbuilders under denationalisation in 1988, the former Fairfield yard was sold to the Norwegian Kværner group and renamed Kvaerner Govan. The yard passed to BAE Systems Marine in 1999 and is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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Old Photograph Covenanter’s Grave Dunsyre Scotland

Old photograph of the Covenanter’s grave near Dunsyre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. This gravestone marks the resting place of a covenanter who had fled into the hills, trying to return home to Ayrshire after the battle of Rullion Green in Penicuik in 1666. Gravely wounded, he made it as far the house of a shepherd, Adam Sanderson, the ruins of which are still visible just south of the bridge over the Medwyn Water. Realising he was soon to die, he asked Sanderson to bury him within sight of the Ayrshire hills. Sanderson found him dead the next morning. At great risk to himself, Sanderson buried the covenanter near the summit of Black Law, from where the Ayrshire hills can indeed be seen on a clear day. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.



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