RootsChat.Com

Chalmers Parish Church was located in Claythorn Street, just off the Gallowgate in Glasgow. My parents were married there in 1954 and l believe it was demolished sometime in the 1960s.

My Grandfather was Perter McMartin,born 4th September,1875 in Kilmadock and my Grandmother was Jane Hunter Crooks,born 1st February 1888 in Bothwell Park.  My Grandfather was a coal miner and worked in the Fife area.   They had 5 children,Peter,Annie,my mother Catherine,Jessie and James.   My mother,was born at 29,Landale Terrace,Auchtertool and I believe that Catherine and Jessie were born there as well.  The whole family moved to Glasgow sometime in the 1920s.  I would be interested to hear from anyone with connections to the McMartins

My father in law was James Robertson McMartin born 1925, died 1987. He married Violet Rose McDonald in 1950. Violet was born in 1927 and died a couple of months after James. Both came from the Maryhill area of Glasgow and moved to the Drumchapel area of Glasgow in the mid 1950s. They had three children, James who married Margaret Delaney and had two children - James and Carla. Peter (unmarried) and Hazel Margaret McMartin (my ex wife) - 1 child to James Reston - Chanel Reston who adopted the surname Pool when Hazel married Robert Pool; they had two children - Danielle De Lavelle Pool and Hazel McMartin Pool. Hazel McMartin had another child Andrew to Andrew McNee. James Robertson McMartin was the son of Peter McMartin and Jane Hunter Crooks. I know this information to be true as James told his family details in the mid 1980s when l first started to trace my family tree.

Looking for any ancestors of the above couple, I am one

Kenny

there is a Sarah P. Alston in the 1891 census for Langholm, Dumfriesshire (aged 5) making her year of birth 1886. You will have to look at the census returns to find out who was living there at the time.  All the best and let us know how you get on.

l have a Sarah Pool (b 1824 - d 1912) who married (m 1844) William Alston (b 1821) who then had 7 children, one of them being Sarah Alston (b 1861), not sure if she had a middle name. I have never had the time to look into her marriage and children details so l guess there is a slight possibility they could be related as Sarah Pool Alston would have been 25 at the time of her marriage. Hope this helps.