Hi Mrs Motty
As far as I'm aware the Scotsman is the only Scots newspaper with online archives but you could try contacting the Courier:
Address:
West Lothian Courier
20-22 King Street
Bathgate
EH48 1AX
Telephone: 01506 633544
Fax: 01506 653526
Contact Email: pmcclurg@s-un.co.uk
found at: http://www.scottishfoodanddrink.com/vie ... em_id=8728
Best wishes
Lesley
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firthview
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This is in my husbands family tree,you have the wrong Thomas Johnston starting johnstons oils,it was Andrews son Thomas b 1911 that started the oil company.I Just found this today.If I can help in any way with the Johnstons just let me know.
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Hi There
John Johnston is my Great Great Grandfather on my paternal side. He was born 11 April 1873 in Bathgate and married Isabella Fisher. John was the son of Thomas Johnston and Margaret Morris. Thomas Johnston was the owner of Starlaw Farm, he was an agricultural labourer as well as a carting contractor, the farm was passed down to Andrew Johnston the youngest son bypassing the others and caused quite a family rift. I have been doing our genealogy for awhile now and have quite a bit of information. John Johnston is my grandfather's grandfather and although my grandfather has now passed on my great auntie has told me many stories about him and Burnvale Cottage. John Johnston's son Thomas (1901) was a chemical plumber bought the Seafield oil works office and turned one of the rooms into a bathroom and it was the first indoor bathroom in the village of Seafield.
This information is from the museum of Scottish shale oil website.
John Johnston, retortman, Burnvale Cottage, Blackburn Road, Bathgate, died on 14 June 1929 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 22 April 1929 at Deans Oil Works, Bathgate, when he was crushed between a runaway hutch and a brick wall. NAS Reference: SC41/13/1929/15
I am in contact with many of my distant and elderly family members and so am getting lots of family stories and photos passed on to me.
Would love to share any family history information I have with any other relatives, my e-mail address is sharlene_terryATyahoo.co.nz
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John Johnston is my Great Great Grandfather on my paternal side. He was born 11 April 1873 in Bathgate and married Isabella Fisher. John was the son of Thomas Johnston and Margaret Morris. Thomas Johnston was the owner of Starlaw Farm, he was an agricultural labourer as well as a carting contractor, the farm was passed down to Andrew Johnston the youngest son bypassing the others and caused quite a family rift. I have been doing our genealogy for awhile now and have quite a bit of information. John Johnston is my grandfather's grandfather and although my grandfather has now passed on my great auntie has told me many stories about him and Burnvale Cottage. John Johnston's son Thomas (1901) was a chemical plumber bought the Seafield oil works office and turned one of the rooms into a bathroom and it was the first indoor bathroom in the village of Seafield.
This information is from the museum of Scottish shale oil website.
John Johnston, retortman, Burnvale Cottage, Blackburn Road, Bathgate, died on 14 June 1929 at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, from injuries sustained on 22 April 1929 at Deans Oil Works, Bathgate, when he was crushed between a runaway hutch and a brick wall. NAS Reference: SC41/13/1929/15
I am in contact with many of my distant and elderly family members and so am getting lots of family stories and photos passed on to me.
Would love to share any family history information I have with any other relatives, my e-mail address is sharlene_terryATyahoo.co.nz
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Greetings from NZ.
Re your posted contact; it is recommended that you break up your published email address, so that it is not so easily recognised by the SPAM'ers on the go. Use AT and DOT or don't publish at all.
If you activate the option box, at the end of your post, you will get an email sent to the email you registered with, each time someone posts on your thread.
Private exchanges of information, can be exchanged through the private message service. Just follow the links or to start, just click on the profile of the person you want to contact. Only historic data, mindful of the 50, 80 and 100 year rules, should be discussed in detail, in open forum.
All the best with your research.
Alan SHARP.
Re your posted contact; it is recommended that you break up your published email address, so that it is not so easily recognised by the SPAM'ers on the go. Use AT and DOT or don't publish at all.
If you activate the option box, at the end of your post, you will get an email sent to the email you registered with, each time someone posts on your thread.
Private exchanges of information, can be exchanged through the private message service. Just follow the links or to start, just click on the profile of the person you want to contact. Only historic data, mindful of the 50, 80 and 100 year rules, should be discussed in detail, in open forum.
All the best with your research.
Alan SHARP.