Fallin colliery

[dale.ryan7079]

i have not got a great deal of information on him he passed away when my dad was a young man,obviously his name was george ryan,i think he had 2 sisters and a brother sure his brothers name was jim and i think his sister was called irene???my great grandad george father was called angus ryan and as far i know our family came from lanarkshire!!!its all very sketchy but no one seems to know anything!!!

[dale.ryan7079]

ps that photo on the other page of mary boner is the absolute double of my younger sister,when i showed it to my dad he thought it was my sister!!!

[kathy-9]

The family certainly came out of Lanarkshire which was a stopover from Ireland.  I cant trace an Angus, but there is certainly a John and a James.  Interesting that your sister looks like Mary Bonar.  See if you can come up with some other names to link in with the family.

[dale.ryan7079]

The family certainly came out of Lanarkshire which was a stopover from Ireland.  I cant trace an Angus, but there is certainly a John and a James.  Interesting that your sister looks like Maqry Bonar.  See if you can come up with some other names to link in with the family.

i have had an ask around and this is the most info i can get,

angus mckinley ryan(great grandad)died 1958 married to jessie manson,had five kids..........
george manson ryan(grandad) born 1936 died 1958 married to margaret cattigan(gran) from cowie
jim "tarzan"ryan married to jessie ?
rina ryan married to freddie sanderlands(edinburgh) re-married ? laird
isa ryan married to joke laird(brother of the above laird)
jinet ryan married to ? dick(camelon) later re-married dennis ?(hull,england)

[Stasia]

Hi Dale
I'm related to Kathy - I think our Ryan family is not the one your from. I was told that there were 2 Ryan Families in Fallin and that they were not related. My Mother Margaret Ryan was born there 1923 the youngest child of Mary Bonar and James Ryan. Hope this helps your search

[dale.ryan7079]

Hi Dale
I'm related to Kathy - I think our Ryan family is not the one your from. I was told that there were 2 Ryan Families in Fallin and that they were not related. My Mother Margaret Ryan was born there 1923 the youngest child of Mary Bonar and James Ryan. Hope this helps your search

Yeh i knew there were 2 ryan familys in fallin however i was told they were related but reading some of the things on here makes me wonder,i cant find any trace of them,my dad got told that when the first ryan on his family moved to fallin he had infact changed his name to ryan because he had been up to no good in lanarkshire!!!!it would be nice if someone out there had any info,i was looking at the photos posted and mary boner is the double of my sister!!!but thats the only link i can make!!!

[LesLesley]

New member here from New Zealand.  My grandfather Leslie Stewart was the survivor of the 1934 accident which claimed the lives of 3 other miners.  I also had an uncle Ronnie Gillespie who worked in the mines around the 60's, who was married to my dad's sister Margaret.  I think another uncle Fergus Stewart may also have worked the mine.  Any information would be appreciated.  At the time of the accident my grandparents were living at Fallin Rows.  I have tried to find a picture to no avail.  Can anyone help? Many thanks Les Stewart

[Fergie38]

One for kathy-9
(and anyone else who's interested I suppose



John Fowler was the son of Eleanor and married to my dads sister, Betsy.
John died in 1976 and Betsy in 1999, both in Bannockburn

[CdnRyan]

Hello All;

My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Janet McKinley Ryan and she lived in Fallin before imigrating to Canada in 1954.  My Nanny (this is what we called her) had three brothers (James, Donald and Frank) and one sister ('Nan').   My Nanny passed in 1994 and very sadly, my mother (Annie Ryan) died in January of this year at the young age of 61. I know for a fact that the 'Stalin' Ryan you speak of in your posts is my great uncle James.   I am so desperate to get to know some of my Nanny's relatives.  My Nanny's siblings did not have any children and sadly they all died young.  They were all miners.  It was so great to come across this website...it feels like the start of some connections.   I so miss my mother and my Nanny.   I also read that my great Uncle James "Stalin" Ryan is mentioned in a local book called "Fallin:  Tales of a Mining Village" by Hugh Kerr...does anyone have any idea how I could get this book sent here to Canada?   
Looking so forward to hearing from another Ryan
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