Hello again Hydes,
First let me draw things together a bit, having read all the replies in your 2 threads (now merged I think) I can see you are being sent hither & thither to areas not of interest. The posts by *Sandra* are the closest to your search, if not spot on. The families O'Hare, McCann, Docherty all lived within a few miles of each other in the villages of Arden, Whiterigg, Plains, Greengairs and Longriggend, moving about from one village to another as the Coal Seam ran out, their descendants all still live in the same places, the Ronnie Docherty Sandra mentions having died in 1962, lived 2 doors from me in Livingston Drive Plains and he did indeed have 9 children. Ann McCann was 2 classes above me in school, her brother Eddie (Tinny) McCann married into my family, my brother Pat Kerr married Elizabeth O'Hare from West Calder who may or may not be in the mix, West Calder being another Mining area in West Lothian.
I am looking into this family from Greengairs, Lawrence O'Hare who was a School Teacher and Author died 2012 and buried also in St Josephs cemetery, he wrote a book about the Stanrigg Mine Disaster and was instrumental in getting a Memorial erected, look it up, the Mine stood a matter of yards from the village of Arden. This family may be connected.
James Kerr.
