by Beljoakes » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:10 am
Hi,
I am trying hard to help out my mother, born in Paisley at the end of WWII, retrace some of her childhood memories.
She use to travel to visit my great great aunt, Mrs Isa McMeneny, née Braidwood in Saltcoats, from Paisley, as a child. Mum left Scotland in 1951 and trying to track down most places has been fairly easy, but not this time.
Aunt Isa used to host her younger brother and his wife, my great grandparents (Peter & Mary Braidwood), plus my grandparents (Bill & Mary Braidwood). My mother was an only child of an only child and was brought down to see Aunt Isa, herself childless, as often as possible. As she was 10 years older than my great grandpa, she would have been in her late 70’s, early 80’s in the early 1950’s.
Aunt Isa’s husband Hugh had been a Stonemason and specialised in cutting Marble. She died at home in 1957, as far as we can make out, at 13 Parkend Cottages, Saltcoats, which is confirmed in the registry entry of her death.
I can’t find the cottages on Google Earth, but know it was a big stone house, grey stone and slate roof, old and large and solid are my mother’s words, with a large garden with a hedge. There is a two story house in some of the photos we do have, but the house we can see that leads to the garden had stone window casings and lintels, with 4 or 6 pane windows.
Would anyone remember these houses and where they would have been if pulled down?
Kind Regards
Belinda Oakes
Brisbane, Australia.
Hi,
I am trying hard to help out my mother, born in Paisley at the end of WWII, retrace some of her childhood memories.
She use to travel to visit my great great aunt, Mrs Isa McMeneny, née Braidwood in Saltcoats, from Paisley, as a child. Mum left Scotland in 1951 and trying to track down most places has been fairly easy, but not this time.
Aunt Isa used to host her younger brother and his wife, my great grandparents (Peter & Mary Braidwood), plus my grandparents (Bill & Mary Braidwood). My mother was an only child of an only child and was brought down to see Aunt Isa, herself childless, as often as possible. As she was 10 years older than my great grandpa, she would have been in her late 70’s, early 80’s in the early 1950’s.
Aunt Isa’s husband Hugh had been a Stonemason and specialised in cutting Marble. She died at home in 1957, as far as we can make out, at 13 Parkend Cottages, Saltcoats, which is confirmed in the registry entry of her death.
I can’t find the cottages on Google Earth, but know it was a big stone house, grey stone and slate roof, old and large and solid are my mother’s words, with a large garden with a hedge. There is a two story house in some of the photos we do have, but the house we can see that leads to the garden had stone window casings and lintels, with 4 or 6 pane windows.
Would anyone remember these houses and where they would have been if pulled down?
Kind Regards
Belinda Oakes
Brisbane, Australia.