Tag: Welsh
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Williamina
A Welsh Family Post There is little to know about Williamina. Not one of her descendants known to me who are living in Scotland have any real knowledge of her. She has left neither footprint of her life that I can find, nor any photos. We know her parents, her brothers and sisters, her nephews…
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Visiting Aunt Susie
In the late 1970’s, before I met my wife, she was living in a flat in the West End of Glasgow. Not far from where she lived, in Dudley Drive, lived her Aunt Susie. The road that she lived in is made up of a row of Glasgow tenements, four stories high, and very typical…
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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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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…