Glasgow wedding in the cooperative hall.....

[jennyblain]

When talking to some people last Friday (at the meet-up that Davie organised) I mentioned a photograph of the wedding of my uncle George Lynch, in the 1930s. I have put this up on a webpage at http://wyrdswell.co.uk/ancestors/images ... Lynch.html .

It was at a cooperative hall in the East End, either Dennistoun or nearby. The front row are, left from right, my aunt Ina Lynch or McMichael, my mother Janet Lynch or Blain, my aunt Marion Lynch or Robertson, their parents Thomas Lynch and Margaret Pendlebury or Lynch, the best man, the groom George Lynch, the bride Eva, and some of Eva's family.

The children in front are a cousin and my three brothers.
Of the people behind, I know some - Lynchs and Pendleburies and their kin, including my father William Blain in the back row, and his mother Margaret Knaggs or Blain two rows in front of him, and my great-uncle John Pendlebury in the second-back row on the extreme right. Anybody from Glasgow who has relatives in this pic?

Jenny

[Liz Turner]

Hi Jenny!

Don't know anyone from the photo, but just wanted to say that it was nice to meet you last week. Hope someone knows about the folks in the photo.

Liz

[wini]

Hi Jenny

Made me think of the old song.

A fine wee lass, a bonnie wee lass was bonnie wee Jeanie McCall
Ah met her at a wadding in the Cooperative Hall

Can't remember any more and it isn't any help to you at all.
Hope someone can help

wini

[jennyblain]

That's why I gave the thread the title it has, wini Though the words aren't terribly inspired, I remember it being sung.. Other lines (2nd and 4th I think) are

'I gave her my mither's engagement ring an a bonnie wee tartan shawl,' and
'I was the best man, and she was the belle of the ball.'

Jenny

[Davie]

HOOOCH!
is what usually follows that last line Jenny.

The Co-op hall was probably in Brig'ton, as that was where we Eastenders went tae collect the Divvy.
Jis noticed ye ur a Blain.
Ah never said ah wiz observant.
My Daughter's mother is wan o' thaem.
Charlie Blain, was dead before I knew her.
The family originally came from The Port.
Interesting waddin' pic, ah cast o' thoosans
Davie

[wini]

Ye jist got mae intae trouble Jenny.

Ah wiz skippin aroond the hoose jist now singin it.

Must admit ah'm no much oh a singer

wini

[jennyblain]

HOOOCH!
is what usually follows that last line Jenny.

The Co-op hall was probably in Brig'ton, as that was where we Eastenders went tae collect the Divvy.

Aye - the Glasgow Eastern Cooperative Society building was in Westmuir Street, but I don't know if the Hall was there or somewhere else, but quite probably Parkhead.

Cast o thoosans indeed! I have names for quite a few more and if I get a chance I'll put a 'cast list' on the website.

Jis noticed ye ur a Blain.
Ah never said ah wiz observant.
My Daughter's mother is wan o' thaem.
Charlie Blain, was dead before I knew her.
The family originally came from The Port.

My Blains were from Stranraer (and possibly Ayrshire before that), then Greenock/Gourock in mid 19th c. and finally Shettleston, where my father was at school and then worked in the east end as a journalist. Then he went to Dundee for a job with D.C. Thomson's. So we were the only Blains in Dundee - and have now all moved out from there.

There are Blain cousins in Ayrshire and quite possibly in Glasgow, but I don't have any connection with any of them at all.. My father's siblings were George, Daisy, Mary, Hannah (Nanna). Lilias (Lily) and Peter. Before that, his father Peter Blain was part of a quite large family, some of whom scattered to a the airts o the warld.

Jenny

[Russell]

Hi Jenny

The East coast is a cauld, cauld place ofttimes. so did that mak ye the chilblains

Seriously though. Looking at your family migrations each hop to a new place is always considerably longer than the previous one.

It generates anomalies like your family name being unique in that part of the world. Certainly helps the future researcher!

Russell