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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Migrants from Isle of Bute Scotland
« on: Monday 20 June 05 19:20 BST (UK) »
My mother, maiden name Jeanie Thompson Blue, b. 1918, has recalled living at Rothesay as a child. Her dad, Alexander Blue, used to move the family to a Glasgow house in the winter. (He was a proficient house-painter and contracted to do artistic interiors for the art-deco ocean liners, and even did some marbling and other fancy stuff at Buckingham Palace.)
My maternal grandma, née Margaret 'Maggie' Thompson, had seven kids. She used to sublet two or three rented houses in London and Glasgow. After WWII, the whole family moved to London. Our branch emigrated to Sydney in 1954. We went up to Rothesay for a holiday in '53 before sailing down under. Later, Mother's youngest sister also emigrated to Oz, got married and is now living near Cairns in Queensland. (She was born in London in 1938 and never lived on Bute.)
Beaut place, Bute!
My maternal grandma, née Margaret 'Maggie' Thompson, had seven kids. She used to sublet two or three rented houses in London and Glasgow. After WWII, the whole family moved to London. Our branch emigrated to Sydney in 1954. We went up to Rothesay for a holiday in '53 before sailing down under. Later, Mother's youngest sister also emigrated to Oz, got married and is now living near Cairns in Queensland. (She was born in London in 1938 and never lived on Bute.)
Beaut place, Bute!