Author Topic: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's  (Read 5022 times)

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #18 on: Friday 28 November 14 17:41 GMT (UK) »
Well, someone had to cut the grass

It was a new town afterall

And then there was the blooming sand pits to weed and dig over for the budding athletes  ::)

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #19 on: Friday 28 November 14 17:50 GMT (UK) »
Let it go Sancti...let it go.... ::)

John Wright Sports Centre and corresponding facilities were special  ;D

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #20 on: Friday 28 November 14 18:05 GMT (UK) »
I had let it go.  8)

This thread brought all the memories flooding back  :(

I'll need to go for a lie down now.  :P

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #21 on: Friday 28 November 14 18:12 GMT (UK) »
 ;D ;)
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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #22 on: Friday 28 November 14 23:38 GMT (UK) »
You go away for a few days and miss all the fun.

Platthorn was the best potato farm in all of Lanark, home of Paterson's Potatoes (my gran had an old merchant's ad framed on her wall).

Andrew Paterson was not a farmer and although he owned the farm he brought growers in as tenants to do the work. He sold the farm to the Stuarts after his 2nd wife (Fanny) died in 1882, but retained ownership of the house and garden.  He moved down to Larkhall and died there in 1913.  His son Wm assumed ownership of the house but I can not recall if he ever lived there. Andrew was the son of Wm Paterson and Janet Hart born 1824 in Maxwelltown. George Lyle ran the farm until he died then Wm Craig became the tenant of the farm until around 1920 when he and Wm Stuart became partners and split off plots and built houses.

Yes, I too have very long roots in EK but unlike many, I return annually just so I can shop at Silverburn ;)

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 29 November 14 08:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks DonM,
                     very informative and a more plausible reason as to why the chap I'm researching was resident there.

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Rutherglen;Baird/Adair/Ferguson/Reid
Strathaven;Shearer , Orr
Beith;Steel 
Glasgow;Donnelly,McSorley,Burns
County Tyrone;McSorley
Eaglesham;Paton
 All;McAlonan and variants 
Sligo;Burns 
2nd. bat Seaforth Highlanders 1914-16.
2nd. bat. KOSB 1914-18.
1/8th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-15
5th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-17
1st. Bat. Scots Guards 1914-15
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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 29 November 14 10:53 GMT (UK) »
Where did Henry's wife come from?

Where did Henry die?

Electoral rolls may be the best source for Platthorn residents at the time

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Re: Platthorn East Kilbride in the 1920's
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 29 November 14 11:11 GMT (UK) »
Hello Sancti,
                  Henry Leo Burns was born in Balmore Street, Glasgow in 1889. At the time of his marriage in 1920 in SaintJohns Church, Portugal Street his address was 145 Finlay Drive, Glasgow. His wife was a Sarah Mccafferty who lived in 425 Eglinton Street,Glasgow.
The next mention is on the Ellis Island data base when his sister gives her departure address in Scotland as his home in Clapthorn(sic) or Platthorn, in East Kilbride.
Henry died in Glasgow in 1975.
The only other tit bit is that he was a singer who performed on stage under the stage name of Harry Brandon.
Rutherglen;Baird/Adair/Ferguson/Reid
Strathaven;Shearer , Orr
Beith;Steel 
Glasgow;Donnelly,McSorley,Burns
County Tyrone;McSorley
Eaglesham;Paton
 All;McAlonan and variants 
Sligo;Burns 
2nd. bat Seaforth Highlanders 1914-16.
2nd. bat. KOSB 1914-18.
1/8th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-15
5th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-17
1st. Bat. Scots Guards 1914-15
HMS Biarritz 1915-16
K Class Submarines  K10 and K11