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Thomas Cairns Livingstone had a wide social circle and spent many of his evenings and holidays in the company of relatives, friends and neighbours. As well as writing about them by name, Thomas often uses their location as a shorthand way of referring to them. This guide to the people and places in Thomas’ diary should help untangle Ina from Isa, and Lily from Wee Lily.

200 Main Street, Rutherglen

Thomas lived here before he was married. During the years of the diary it was the home of Thomas’ Uncle Willie.

Alexander Baxter

Proprietor of Paterson, Baxter and Company, which employs Thomas. Their premises were at 170 Ingram Street, in the warehouse district of central Glasgow. They had other offices in Leeds, London, Cape Town, Oslo and Copenhagen.

Mary Carlyle (née Livingstone)

Sister of Thomas, born in Balmoral Terrace, Hill Street, Lurgan, County Armagh, in the north of Ireland, on 27 September 1884. Her mother died two weeks after her birth. Mary married Thomas Carlyle on 16 July 1904; he was 34, some 14 years older than her. He was a shirt-cutter, she was a shirt-fitter. None of the family witnessed the marriage, and the couple moved to Edinburgh shortly afterwards. They had four children: Thomas, Helen (or Ella), Jane (or Jean) Weir, and Dorothy. We know from Ella’s recollections that Mary and her family remained relatively close to their Glasgow relations well into Tommy Livingstone Junior’s adulthood.

Mr and Mrs Carmichael

Neighbours of Thomas and Agnes at 14 Morgan Street.

Clydebank

Home of Jenny Roxburgh and her family.

Coatbridge

Home of Agnes’ family, and also of the Crozier family.

Henrietta (‘Hetty’) Cook

Cousin of Agnes. She married Gordon Mossman in Glasgow on 18 December 1918 at the age of 23 (he was 26). They were married ‘by declaration’ (a civil ceremony) in front of witnesses, and by warrant issued by the Sheriff Substitute of Lanarkshire, a form peculiar to Scotland, regulated by the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1916. She was described on her marriage certificate as an engineer’s ‘clerkess’, living at 11 Leven Street, Glasgow. She was usually known as Hetty.

James Cook

Nephew or cousin of Agnes. Shot in the hand during the First World War, and nursed in the Victoria Hospital, a military hospital in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. He was a witness to the marriage of Hetty Cook in December 1918, described on the certificate as ‘mercantile clerk; sapper, Royal Engineers’.

James Crichton

Private James Crichton (41152) of the Scottish Rifles, Cameronians was killed in action on 21 March 1918. He was aged 21 and buried in the Poziers graveyard. James worked with Thomas at Paterson and Baxter and was one of the first of the company to join up. Thomas would have read the account of his death through the Glasgow newspapers as they usually printed Rolls of Honour about four weeks after the death.

The Crozier Family

Agnes’ Aunt Agnes married Robert Chapman Crozier in 1881. The Crozier family lived in the Blairhill area of Coatbridge. Robert or ‘Uncle Bob’ ran a grocers and spirit shop at 142 Bank Street, Coatbridge and then moved into the hotel trade, managing the Royal Hotel in Coatbridge after the war until his death in 1921. Robert and Agnes had four daughters, Margaret (possibly known as Daisy), Mary (May), Jeanie (Jean) and Henrietta (Hetty). Sadly, May died whilst on holiday at Rothesay from the Spanish ‘flu in 1918 at only 24.

Donald Ferguson

Married to Josephine, Thomas’ sister. He died of epilepsy and heart failure on 19 October 1916, at Beracah, Paisley Road, Barrhead, in what was probably a private nursing home, although his usual residence was 3 Greenlodge Terrace. On his death certificate, the occupation of his late father Samuel is given as ‘shepherd’.

Isabella McArthur Ferguson

Daughter of Donald and Josephine Ferguson. Thomas’ niece. Born 20 October 1900 at 204 French Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. Also known as Isa.

Josephine Ferguson (née Livingstone)

Sister of Thomas, born in Silverwood, near Lurgan, on 13 August 1874. First born of Joseph’s children with Mary Cairns. First worked as a shirt-maker. Married Donald Ferguson in Glasgow on 10 June 1898 and honeymooned in Belfast. At the time of their marriage, Donald was living at 175 Gallowgate, Glasgow, and Josephine at 10 India Street, Rutherglen. Both Josephine and her husband worked in a grocery shop, possibly the Bridgeton branch of Cochrane’s, a Glasgow chain. They had three children, Isabella, Lily and Jack. Donald died of epilepsy in 1916, and Josephine continued working in the grocery business.

Jack Ferguson

Son of Donald and Josephine Ferguson. Thomas’ nephew.

Lily Florence Livingstone Ferguson

Daughter of Donald and Josephine Ferguson. Thomas’ niece. Born 4 May 1899 at 204 French Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. Worked as a clerkess. Also known as Wee Lily.

The Gordons

Relatives of Agnes living in the Ibrox area of Glasgow.

Greenlodge

Thomas’ father Joseph lived at 3 Greenlodge Terrace, Greenlodge Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow. His daughter Josephine and her husband Donald Ferguson also lived there with their children, a fairly usual arrangement at the time.

Andrew Hamilton

Former office boy in Paterson and Baxter. Married Nellie Pettigrew in July 1915, lived in Hickman Street in Govanhill, and had a son in 1918.

Ibrox

Home of Agnes’ family, and also of the Gordons, close family friends to Thomas and Agnes.

Agnes Smart Livingstone (née Cook)

Born in Braid Street, Glasgow (near St George’s Cross) on 10 November 1879 to James and Agnes Cook (née Henderson). Her parents were married on 7 November 1879 (three days before she was born) in the St Rollox district of Glasgow. Her father was a lithographer, and Agnes herself was a cardboard cutter at the time of her marriage to Thomas in 1910.

Duncan Graham Livingstone

Brother of Thomas, born in Balmoral Terrace, Lurgan, on 2 June 1880. Worked for Anchor Line Cruises and sailed the Glasgow-New York route aboard the TSS (twin-screw steamship) Columbia from 1908 to 1910. Fought in the Army Service Corps from 1918 to 1919. Lived between Belfast and Glasgow.

Joseph Livingstone

Father of Thomas, born in 1847 in Lurgan, County Armagh, in the north of Ireland, the son of John Livingstone, a teacher of English, and Mary Ann Livingstone (née Hare, she died near Rutherglen in March 1881). Lurgan is 19 miles south-west of Belfast, and was known as a centre of the linen industry. He was married three times: to Sarah Gilpin in 1867 in Seagoe Parish Church (she died in January 1873); to Mary Cairns on 3 October 1873; and to Jane Weir in January 1885 (she died in 1909). All of his children were with Mary Cairns, whom he married in Maralin (or Magheralin) in County Down in the north of Ireland. She had previously been married to a Mr McKinlay. She died in October 1884 shortly after the birth of her youngest daugher, Mary Livingstone, while still at the Lurgan residence of her father, Thomas Cairns.

Joseph Livingstone worked as a clerk for the Caledonian Railway Company from 1876, and later as a mercantile clerk. He moved to 10 India Street, Rutherglen, in the 1880s, then lived at 3 Greenlodge Terrace, Bridgeton, Glasgow. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, a friendly society, and the Carnbroe Loyal Orange Lodge, a Loyalist and Unionist ‘secret society’ with its origins in the north of Ireland. Carnbroe is a village to the south of Coatbridge.

Josephine Livingstone

Daughter of Samuel and Nellie Livingstone. Thomas’ niece. Born 28 April 1902 in Glasgow. Also known as Ina.

Mary Ann Livingstone (née Hare)

Mother of Joseph and paternal grandmother of Thomas. Died of chronic bronchitis on 7 March 1881 at 3 George Gray Street, Eastfield, Rutherglen.

Nellie Livingstone (née Muir Meikleham)

Married to Samuel, Thomas’ brother. Her parents were James Meikleham and Elizabeth Meikleham (née Muir).

Samuel John Livingstone

Brother of Joseph and uncle of Thomas. Born 1856 and worked as a railway clerk and as a coal merchant. He was married to Mary Elizabeth McColl, a draper’s assistant, in 1883 by a Church of Scotland minister at their home at 543 Dalmarnock Road, Glasgow.

Samuel John Livingstone

Brother of Thomas, born in Balmoral Terrace, Lurgan, in 1878. Worked as a grocer’s assistant, then a grocer’s manager, in a branch of Cochrane’s. He was married to Nellie Muir Meikleham on 28 January 1902 at 217 Broad Street, Mile-End, Glasgow by a minister of the United Free Church. They had two children, Josephine (also known as Ina) in 1902 and Samuel John, in 1919.

Samuel Livingstone Junior

Son of Samuel and Nellie Livingstone. Thomas’ nephew. Born 1919.

Thomas Cairns Livingstone

Born 4 June 1882 at 10 India Street, Rutherglen, the only one of six children of Joseph and Mary Livingstone to be born in Glasgow. Josephine, Lily, Duncan, Samuel and Mary were born in Lurgan, County Armagh, in the north of Ireland. Thomas’ mother died in 1884 when Thomas was aged two, and he was raised by his father, his older siblings and his step-mother Jane. The family moved to 4 French Street, Bridgeton around 1900. He was schooled in Rutherglen and took extra classes in English and French.

Thomas started work in 1895 and began courting Agnes Smart Cook in 1903. They were engaged on 19 December 1908 and married on 10 June 1910 in Agnes’ home at 37 Whitefield Road, Ibrox, by the Reverend John Tarish of the Tron United Free Church.

Their first home was at 20 Morgan Street in Govanhill, where their son Thomas Cairns Livingstone Junior was born in 1911. They moved to a tenement house at 14 Morgan Street in 1913.

Thomas worked as a mercantile clerk at 170 Ingram Street in central Glasgow in the offices of the firm of Paterson, Baxter and Company, which manufactured linen and sailcloth. Given that this address was in the heart of the warehouse district of the city, manufacturing may have taken place at different premises.

Thomas Cairns Livingstone Junior

Born on 9 August 1911, the only child of Thomas and Agnes. Attended Victoria Primary School in Batson Street, Govanhill. At the time of his birth, it was the custom in Scotland to give a first son his paternal grandfather’s first name and his mother’s maiden name as his middle name. This happened with Thomas Senior in 1882, but when it came for him to name his son, he broke with tradition, choosing to continue his own mother’s maiden name rather than that of Agnes’ mother. Generally known in the diaries as Wee Tommy.

Claude Maxwell

Brother of Miss Maxwell, Wee Tommy’ teacher in Victoria Primary School. He joined the Royal Highland Regiment (the Black Watch) as a Private and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry. He was wounded but served the full term of the First World War.

Jenny and Kate Roxburgh

Sisters who lived in Radnor Street, Clydebank. Agnes probably knew Jenny through her earlier employment as they were both in the stationery trade, Agnes a cardboard cutter and Jenny as a stationery assistant. Later Jenny worked as a nurse on Maryhill.

Ruglen

The local pronunciation of Rutherglen.

John White

Married to Lily, Thomas’ sister. A telegraphist, he worked for the General Post Office.

Lily Florence White (née Livingstone)

Sister of Thomas, born in Hill Street, Lurgan, on 15 May 1878. She worked as a power loom weaver and on 9 November 1911 was married in Trinity Church, Anderston, Glasgow to John White. At the time, her address was 3 Greenlodge Terrace, his was 1054 Argyle Street, both Glasgow. She died on 28 October 1914 of uterine septicaemia, pleurisy and pneumonia, at her father’s home on Greenlodge Terrace, although her married residence was 44 Clincarthill Road, Rutherglen.¹ She was buried in Rutherglen Cemetery.

1 Lily’s death certificate lists three causes of death, in order of likelihood. Doctors at the time tended to do this in the absence of a post mortem examination.