Living

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: C55BF006FF60474283DA737927BB5A28AB05
• Occupation: 1928; Poultry Farmer
• Residence: 1944, 5 Mannerston, Carriden, West Lothian, Scotland

Notes:

Sometime after 1942 Jean and Jimmy seperated and Jean lived in Reading, BKS, England.

Notes from terry Stewart
In 1993, I found David Aitken at his home at "Becathlaw".
Saying that he knew very little about the family he would take me to his "brother's" place. He took me to Jimmy Shanks home.
This house, Lathallen House by Polmont, had been a mansion once owned by Salvensons the Ship Builder. Now the house was boarded up. The grounds were like a building site with scrap lying all around. Jimmy was variously described as a General Dealer or Scrap-metal Dealer,
Jimmy no longer actually lived in the main house, preferring to live in a cottage on the estate. When I called there was no one at home. The door, to the cottage, was open and there was a roaring fire in the main room. The main room had been turned into a bedroom. Junk was piled high to the ceiling against all four walls.
Three televisions were in the room sitting on top of each other. One of them blared out the horse racing. But no one was home.
I phoned back later and spoke to a lady who turned out to be Jimmy's de-facto.
She was the one who told me about Kate Manson, Jimmy's sister.
I never did get to meet Jimmy as he was in hospital and died soon after.
Robbers had invaded their home and Jimmy and his de-facto had been tied up. They then threatened to cut off his de-facto's fingers to get her rings off.
Jimmy suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised dying about two months later. He died at The Royal Infirmary, Falkirk, on 25 Sep 1994, of broncho pneumonia.
Stuart McCracken, his partner, reported his death. Stuart also gave his own home address as Lathallan House.

James married Jean Branks Young on 22 Jun 1928 in Church of Scotland, Torphicen, West Lothian, Scotland. Jean (daughter of James Young and Jane Rankine Branks McNairn) was born on 10 Oct 1907 in Brucefield Farm, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died on 31 May 1983 in 20 Lucey Close, Reading, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• _UID: 27513ED0651A40E7A9CD3B0D28554845F496
• Residence: 1944, 5 Mannerston, Carriden, West Lothian, Scotland

Notes:

Sometime after 1942 Jean and Jimmy seperated and Jean lived in Reading, BKS, England.