Where did they bury them?

[hbaird]

Boland,

I've just spoken with my Mum and she definitely remembers Charlie!

Charlie was the soap boy to my grandfather (the barber) for quite some time before the family moved to the north of Scotland (Mum thinks near Aberdeen somewhere).

The photo that you have shows part of the building that originally housed the barber shop - formerly the Royal Hotel in Calderbank at No 66 Main Street. The McCuskers lived in the rest of the ground floor and two families lived in the upper floor. This shop was later to become the General store and the barber shop was moved further down the main street to another building beside the pub which was run by Jimmy Reid. After this move, Charlie would often be dispatched from one shop to the other to fetch my Grandfather's dinner from the house.

Jim McCusker was born in August 1881 at Gold's Land Calderbank and started his first business in Dundyvan Road in Coatbridge. I've yet to prove this but family lore has him being pictured on the front page of the Sunday Post under the headline "Village Barber Arrested" after initially refusing to serve in the forces in WW1. He was badly injured in battle and lost an eye.

Sorry for rambling on but that's how this hobby gets you!!

Cheers,
Helen

[boland]

Hi helen

What i can tell you is that charlie went to work in Inverness for many years
and eventually I believe to Peterborough.I would have to check with my grandmother. My grandmother is also a Grimley now 85 years old much of the information Ive got comes from her. Our family left Calderbank in 1937 she would have been about 16, but remembers the Reid and Baird
family.
All the family names ties into Calderbank,Coatbridge,Airdrieand Chappellhall

Names: Boland, McConnell, Faloon,Grimley, Reilly, McNulty,McNamee to name a few.

Is it one of your ancestors that registered all the BMDs for Calderbank name Baird appears on a lot of my ancestors records.

Regards Boland

[hbaird]

Boland,

Andrew Baird was the registrar for a long period of time but I don't think he was related to my father's family, although there was one character in the village who I found was related. One sept of the family emigrated to America and he was born in Ohio but came back and settled in Calderbank. Henceforth he was known to all and sundry as "Yankee" Baird!

My Mum's side of the family were the Calderbankies - the McCuskers, McGugans and the McCullochs.

When you visited last year, did you manage to pick up a copy of the book that was recently published about Calderbank?

Helen

[boland]

Hi Helen

I did manage to pick up a copy is it the same book( green cover) that was ifirst published in 1983. If so tells you a lot about the life and times of the steelworks etc. Like you we had strands of the family go to the US five brothers from the same family, two stayed in Cuyhoga, Cleveland Ohio, three went to Indiana. My branch stayed in Calderbankwith another brother and three sisters.

My grandfather was a keen bowls player and kept the bowling green tidy and so forth. My ggggrandfather was a keen cricketer so i am told and played at Maggie Haughs. Have tried tracking pictures but been unsuccessful so far.

I know descendants from the same branch were still living in Calderbank until 1950s I think in Loch Street.

My family lived in Long Row,Old Square and at some time main street where my ggg grandmother Bridget Boland died. Like so much oft hat generation they seem to be buried where a lair had a space .Both of my ggggrandparents are buried with 3 grandchildren at St Josephs ,Coatdyke ,Airdie.( sadly with no headstone )

Am thinking if i can track lair records from an earlier period might give clues for my irish research !

Regards

Boland