Scottish Home Children

The Scottish Home Children were part of a larger British Home Children program that saw over 100,000 children from the United Kingdom, including Scotland, migrated to countries like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand between 1869 and 1939. These children, often

The Flatley surname

Flatlety is the shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flaithfhileadh, an earlier form of Ó Flaitile ‘descendant of the prince poet’. There are more Flatleys in USA (about 800) than there are in Ireland (500) or in the UK (about 150). There are

Pollokshaws

Pollokshaws

Pollokshaws An area on the South side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is bordered by the residential neighbourhoods of Auldhouse to the east, Eastwood and Hillpark to the south and Shawlands to the north, with the Glasgow South Western Line railway and the open lands of Pollok Country Park to the west.