Month: November 2025
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Mr and Mrs Welsh Come to Saltcoats
Saltcoats is a coastal town in Ayrshire. It is part of what is known as the Three Towns: Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan. The history of this coastline is built upon coal, iron, shipbuilding, dynamite, and trains. It was possibly one of the busiest industrial hubs of Scotland at the turn of the 19th Century with…
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Homework
Homework A surprise request to offer assistance to my grandson with his school project on Remembrance and the stories of great grandparents, or in his case, great great grandparents, led me to revisit the piece that I have written previously, about John McKie M.N. John served in the Merchant Navy throughout the Second World War…
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Rachel
This is the start of my research journey into the family history of my wife’s maternal grandmother, Rachel Welsh, who married Andrew Nicol in 1918. Rachel was known to my wife because for a short while Rachel lived in her daughter’s house in Gloucester until she died in the 1960’s. Her connection is not just…