John Chalmers

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Coal Miner (from marriage register).

• Census, 1881, Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland. ²⁵ Listed as age 43 and living in Cambusnethan with wife and 4 siblings. Occupation is Coal Miner.

John married Isabella Buttery, daughter of John Buttery and Janet Law, on 1 Nov 1872 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland. (Isabella Buttery was born in 1846 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland, christened on 19 Apr 1846 in Free Church, Holytown, Lanark, Scotland ²⁶ and died on 14 Jun 1926 in Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scotland.) The cause of her death was Senile Decay and Cardiac Failure.