Welcome to my blog! I recently decided to get involved with Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" project. Every week you get a 'prompt' e-mailed to you and you write a piece based on the prompt. Sounds easy?? Hmmm. It certainly gets you thinking and more importantly allows you to reflect on your research and what you have discovered. And to share it. I'm a bit late in starting so my first few posts appeared all at once. Thank you for reading them.
Home Sweet Home for my husband Martin growing up was a large three storey sandstone detached house in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Formally it was called 'Linnholm'. It seems to have been built in the 1820s and its location can be seen on an Ordnance Survey map from 1858: Martin's parents had initially set up home in Cambuslang, firstly in a single end tenement - one room, a kitchen and a hallway with an outside toilet and no hot water. Within five years they had had three children and needed more space. Fortunately they had started a successful business and could afford to move to a home with several bedrooms and a spacious back garden, still in Cambuslang. However four years later, in 1960, there were three more children so the parents looked again for an even bigger house. The house in Hamilton that became the main family home had been spotted by his father, Jan, who thought it would be ideal. However, when she saw it, his mother Teresa was not impressed!! The house was falli...