I’ve recently renewed my subscription to the British Newspaper Archive and today I discovered this article from the Hamilton Herald and Lanarkshire Weekly News dated Friday 20 February 1891.
Patrick Cosgrove was my great grandfather. His daughter, Catherine, was my maternal granny. He and Edward Cooper were both born in Ireland but were raised in Newmains, Lanarkshire. Both men left Newmains in the 1880s to work in the jute industry in Dundee. They both got married in Dundee within a year of each other. Patrick married my great granny, Sarah Helferty and Edward married Agnes Sweeney. By 1891 both men were back in Newmains. I’d sort of assumed they might be friends. So what caused Edward to beat up his neighbour? And smash those windows? He was certainly upset about something.
I don’t know if Patrick held a grudge but Sarah certainly didn’t. She married Edward Cooper ten years later!
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My Goodness!
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Hi
Edward Cooper would have been my great grandfather. My Scottish family currently live in Motherwell Lanarkshire. I was born in Essex when my father moved to Essex for work his name was Bernard Mulvey. He married my mother Mary Quinn from Galway Ireland and had 7 children.
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Hi Anthony. I’ve been thinking about your family today actually as it is Mary Cooper or Mulvey’s birthday. She was my granny’s half sister. You must be Sean’s uncle?
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