Sunday 10 September 2017

On This Day...

15th August 1865 - Claude Lambie, son of James and Jane Paterson, is born in Govan. He dies in infancy.

15th August 1885 - Ann MacDonald McTavish, daughter of Gregor and Elizabeth McPherson, is born in Morven, Argyll.

15th August 1899 - Kathleen McGourty (sister of Nora) born in Glasgow.

16th August 1916 - Roy Butchart is committed to HMP Barlinnie for disobeying an order in The Labour Corps.

17th August 1864 - Robert Ingram Lambie, son of John and Elizabeth Ingram, is born in Glassford.

17th August 1912 - Jessie Christina Lambie, daughter of Malcolm and Margaret Moffat, is born in Saskatchewan, Canada.

18th August 1823 - Agnes Reid, sister of Annie, is born in Glassford.

19th August 1970 - Adam John Gillespie, son of Edward and Sandra Elizabeth Lambie, is born in Coventry, England.

20th August 1936 - Kurt Pauli serves in the SS-Sturmbann 'Nuremberg', an Infantry Battalion.

21st August 1950 - Alexander McTavish, son of Gregor and Elizabeth McPherson, dies in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, USA.

22nd August 1897 - Clara Alexandra Ingram Lambie, daughter of Robert Ingram Lambie and Mary Lloyd, is born in Toxteth, Liverpool.

23rd August 1975 - Robin Anthony Weir born in Glasgow.

23rd August 1997 - Mary Margaret Lambie, daughter of William and Elizabeth Ferres, dies in Los Angeles, USA.

24th August 1784 - James Weir, son of John and Anne Stark, is born in Carnwath.

24th August 1914 - Helen Craig, wife of Joshua (son of Mark WR Smith) is born.

24th August 1861 - Anne Murray, daughter of Daniel and Marion Lambie, is born in Carluke.

24th August 1871 - Peter McGourty, father of Nora, is transferred to Donegal in the Royal Irish Constabulary.

24th August 1917 - David Penman Lambie joins The Kings Own Scottish Borderers regiment as a 'Boy Piper' aged 15.

24th August 1974 - John Elliot Lambie, husband of Laura Melvin, dies in Thermopolis, Hot Springs, Wyoming, USA.

25th August 1876 - Claude Lambie, son of Robert Reid Lambie and Mary Best, is born in Govan.

25th August 1888 - Elizabeth Ann Ryan (Sister of Robert Ryan) born.

25th August 1891 - Elizabeth McGourty (Sister of Nora) born in Glasgow.

28th August 1816 - Janet Weir, daughter of James and Catherine Brown, is baptized in Carnwath.

28th August 1885 - Joseph Blake, widower, marries Sarah Donnell at Strabane Registrar's Office.

28th August 1915 - John Weir scores for Renfrew Juniors FC in a 4-0 win against Glenboig Cameronians.

28th August 1931 - Ellen Reilly, wife of Michael McGourty dies in Springburn, Glasgow.

29th August 1821 - James Reid, brother of Annie, is born in Glassford.

29th August 1905 - Marion Lambie, daughter of Claude and Marion Paterson Leishman, is born in Bridgeton, Glasgow.

29th August 1914 - Jeanie Cunningham McAlpine, wife of Claude 'The Leap' Lambie, dies in Calton, Glasgow aged 53.

29th August 1947 - Dorothy Sabine Lambie, daughter of William Stevenson Lambie and Margaret Brooks, marries Harry Rennick Fetterley in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

30th August 1946 - Evelyn Isabel Lambie, daughter of William Stevenson and Margaret Brooks, marries Edward Shannon in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

31st August 1823 - Marion Weir (2nd of the name) is born in Carnwath, to James and Catherine Brown.

31st August 1919 - John Weir scores 2 goals against Hibernian in a 5-0 win at Easter Road for Third Lanark  in front of a crowd of 4000 fans.