Comments: Hi Rab, Trust you are well? All the best for 2014.
A i told you Billy Hamilton died recently (sad loss)
I have been in discussion with his wife Liz and sent her a photo of the 6 queen Scout from 1966. I have posted it up on FB under Catrine community. Feel free to drag it of there into your website or i can send a an e mail? Bidey
Submitted by Name: Glenn Saums From: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA E-mail: gsaums@aol.com
Comments: Thanks for this website. I am researching my maternal grandmother's family, the McCarlie's of Catrine. Her dad was Andrew M. McCarlie. It is nice to see where my grandmother grew up in the early 1900's.
Added: December 2, 2013
Submitted by Name: George Fowler From: Catrine /Maltby E-mail: g.fowler1@sky.com
Comments: Enjoy your site Rab,Bobby was my brother, Gordon pal we lived on John Street,Tin Lizzie,Hugh, Jim and myself all live in Maltby Yorkshire and were solid 1984/5 strikers,a couple of us will be up again in June2014 it's changed no Indian Valley save history.
Comments: i asked you about b b in catrin is there any in mauchline pleaseABCD
Added: October 25, 2013
Submitted by Name: Gwen Johnson (cowan) From: Ayrshire (now canada) E-mail: gwen.johnson@cogeco.ca
Comments: A great grandmother named Marion Scott (Steven) born nov 9 1881? married to John Scott in catrine Jan 8 1904. Mother shredded photos and our past. I have nothing, no photos of grandparents , great grandparents, only one photo was left and that is of this Marion Scott . I would like to know who John Scott was , a birth possible of 1882. They went on to have children named tom, agnes and flora Scott. Flora then became Gilmour and then later on Knox. She apparently died in 1975 I never met her..She is my grandmother, never saw a photo of her either. Oh and Marion dad was George Steven and her Mum was Helen and her dad died in Catrine 1910 April 10.Ive spend hundreds just on death certificates and credits and all the rest of it.One day I will come home and I can go to the libraries and register and see for myself. Any familiar names here? any help at all. Please don't hesitate . Thankyou gwen.johnson@cogeco.ca
Added: October 11, 2013
Submitted by Name: margaret munro From: scotland living in canada E-mail: tigermunro@hotmail.com
Comments: Loved looking at the town it is lovely. We were looking at a rental home there and decided to look more into the photos and we think it looks like where we grew up(new milns and darvel,galston. Thank you for the tour great web sight
Comments: The Smithy referred to by Robin Stevenson in Wood Street was a great wee man. We used to go there to get 'special' nails (horse shoe nails)to bore holes in chestnuts, so that we could play 'conkers'. Health and safety' have tried to restrict playing conkers and some schools have banned the game. Changed days!
Comments: Hi there Rab,I was interested to see your entry for Alex Kidd the blacksmith.Was there a second blacksmith shop in Catrine? They one I remember when I was wee was in Wood Street,just round the corner from Joe Mutti's chip shop;I used to watch the smithy work there in the mid 1940s.I have just joined facebook and found some old school friends and some good new friends in the village.I left there in 1959 to work in London as a polisman.I have been retired now for 26 years.
Name: Elliott Boyle
From: catrine (now Perth)
E-mail: elliott.boyle@talktalk.net
Hi Rab,
Trust you are well? All the best for 2014.
A i told you Billy Hamilton died recently (sad loss)
I have been in discussion with his wife Liz and sent her a photo of the 6 queen Scout from 1966. I have posted it up on FB under Catrine community. Feel free to drag it of there into your website or i can send a an e mail?
Bidey