Timothy Main's brother William Main was at Gushet House in 1861 & 1871 -
William Main (m Agnes Sword)
Birth 7 Jul 1815 in Old Monkland
Marriage 1 May 1840 Airdrie to Agnes Sword
Death 26 Dec 1893 New Monkland
Census 1861
New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Age: 42; Gushet House; Occupation : Wine & Spirit Merchant
Census 1871
New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Age: 55; Gushet House; Occupation : Spirit Merchant
POEM - THE BANNER OF BLOOD.
Addressed to Mr WILLIAM MAIN, Gushet-House, Airdrie, the possessor of the relics referred to in the poem.
SIR, Proud may you be of that trophy of old
That banner of blood with the motto in gold :
"For Christ's crown and cov'nant" now aged and worn,
Mid the fight by the hands of the faithful 'twas borne,
And it wav'd o'er our fathers, leal-hearted and bold,
That old banner of blood, with the motto in gold.
In those days of peril, of torture, of blood,
When caves and the moors were the home of the good
When Clavers the fires of destruction had hurl'd
Over Scotland. Our fathers that banner unfurl'd,
Whose red blood-spots the value to ages have told
Of that banner of blood, with the motto in gold.
And proud may you be of the sword and the spear
The arms of the mighty must ever be dear ;
But dearer those weapons our fathers have used
When the bloodhounds our kirk and our country abused :
They were bathed in the blood of the foemen of old,
'Round that banner of blood, with the motto in gold.
And well may the sons of such fathers be proud
To tell of their deeds, their contendings to blood ;
They came with their lives, with their fortunes and all,
Beneath that banner of blood to conquer or fall.
Our lov'd Scotland yet boasts of brave sons as of old,
Who would fight 'neath that banner and motto in gold.
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