In the 1901 census, at Bellfield Row, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Hugh Meikle, coal miner, and his wife, Agnes, have other children including a two year old son Thomas. The family has two visitors, Thomas Clyde, a coal miner, born Airdrie, and Mary Clyde, a housekeeper, born Ireland. Both the visitors are single and both aged 56.