AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
NameMary Wilson WALKER , 1C3R
Birth Date12 Jun 186968,69
Birth PlaceMilton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Reside Date187170 Age: 1
Reside PlaceMilton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoMary 1 year old lived with her parents at 67 Abingdon Road.
Reside Date188171 Age: 11
Reside PlaceKelvin, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoMary a scholar, aged 11 lived with her parents at 154 North Woodside Road
Migration Dateabt 1893 Age: 23
Migration PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoTo New Zealand, Mary with her mother Janet and father James went to New Zealand.
Reside Date189472 Age: 24
Reside PlaceInvercargill, Southland, New Zealand
Memountil 1899 in Liddel Street and her occupation was "dressmaker".
Migration Date1899 Age: 29
Migration PlaceInvercargill, Southland, New Zealand
Memoor 1900 To Scotland, Mary and mother Janet returned to Scotland from New Zealand after death of James
Reside Date31 Mar 190173 Age: 31
Reside PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memoat 13 Simpson Street. She is listed as age 31 and a Tailors machinist for occupation.
Reside Date2 Apr 191174 Age: 41
Reside PlaceKelvin, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoLiving at 24 Westbury Street were Janet Walker, 64 and daughter Mary, 41, Vest maker [tailoring at home]
Reside Date1915 Age: 45
Reside PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memoat 29 Simpson Street, Glasgow when she married Thomas McBride.
Reside Date3 Jan 1923 Age: 53
Reside PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memoat 29 Simpson Street, Glasgow at the time of death of husband Thomas McBride.
Migration Date13 Mar 192375 Age: 53
Migration PlaceLondon, England
MemoTo Australia from London, Mary again travelled south after the death of he husband Thomas. She initially went to Melbourne as she had some friends there as indicated in he birthday book. By 1928 she was living in Sydney. Her UK address prior to departure was 29 Simpson Street, Glasgow.

Details of voyage
Name: Mary MCBRIDE Date of departure: 13 March 1923 Port of departure: London
Passenger destination port: Melbourne, Australia Passenger destination: Melbourne, Australia
Date of Birth: 1870 (calculated from age) Age: 53 Marital status: Sex: Female Occupation: Vestmaker
Passenger recorded on: Page 13 of 20
Ship: HOBSONS BAY
Official Number:151802
Master's name:F J Ogilvie
Steamship Line:Commonwealth Government
Where bound:Australia
Square feet:
Registered tonnage:13850
Passengers on voyage:670
Reside Date192876 Age: 58
Reside PlaceLidcombe, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memoat 42 Rawson Street enrolled as Mary Wilson McBride.
Reside Date26 Mar 1935 Age: 65
Reside PlaceRevesby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memoat 76 Turvey Street at the time of the death of Thomas Hudson Aitken.
Reside Date194677 Age: 76
Reside PlaceBurwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memountil 1954 at The Salvation Army Home at 75 Shafesbury Road.
Death Date27 Apr 195478 Age: 84
Death PlaceBurwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoCause was Senility, died at Salvation Army Eventide Home, 75 Shaftsbury Road, Burwood, NSW Australia.
Burial Date29 Apr 1954
Burial PlaceRookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Reco Dateca 1990281 Age: 120
Reco PlaceHornsby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memo"My Grandmother was born Mary Walker married, McBride when she was in the forties. She always fancied my grandfather and wanted to be Mrs. Thomas H. Aitken as she wanted to be Mary McBride. She got both eventually, when she was over 60. Grandfather was over 65. They were lonely and my mother suggested they got married. She had a home in Regents Park or Bankstown. They used to talk about their youth until 2 AM. She had wanderlust until she married grandfather. She used to travel steerage and get what she wanted. She became settled when she became Mary Aitken and lived long after Tom died. She used to walk over the Harbour Bridge to Mosman from the Salvation Home, for gentle women at Burwood. I think she got a train from Burwood to Wynyard. She was short of cash. The only way she could visit my mother was walk. Although Mum used to pay her transport costs, she wouldn't accept her fare both ways.
This was when she was old. She was tiny. She was Tom Aitken's 3rd wife."
Occupationtailors machinist (1901), vestmaker (1915, 1923)79,80,81
FatherJames WALKER (1842-1898)
MotherJanet McGAVIN (1846-1918)
Spouses
Birth Date23 Sep 1850271
Birth PlaceIreland
MemoBirth year calculated
Reside Date31 Mar 1901272 Age: 50
Reside PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memo393 Caledonia Rd, Thomas , age 50, head, Grocer, born Ireland. Resident with him was Sarah Quin, age 36 born Ireland.
Reside Date1915 Age: 64
Reside PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memoprior to his marriage to Mary Walker at 109 Glebe Street, Glasgow.
Death Date3 Jan 1923273,274 Age: 72
Death PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoBronchitis, broncho pneumonia 6 days. Thomas McBride death, extract from Mary McBride's Birthday Book, 3 Jan 1923, 29 Simpson Street, Glasgow Scotland,
Occupationengine keeper (1879,1881) , dairyman (1891-1912), night watchman (1923)
FatherThomas McBRIDE (~1823-1864)
MotherSarah DUBOURDIEU (~1831-1897)
Marr Date25 Dec 1915280
Marr PlaceGlasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Marr Memomarried at 1/2 Montgomrie Street, Glasgow after Banns according to the forms of the Established Church of Scotland
2Thomas Hudson AITKEN , G Grandfather
Birth Date4 Dec 186745
Birth PlaceGreenhills, Southland, New Zealand
Reside Date190847 Age: 40
Reside PlaceSydenham, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
MemoThomas who's occupation was "moulder" and his children moved to Hutcheson Street, Sydenham, after the death of Emily, his first wife, in 1907 and shortly before the 1908 electoral records were finalised.This is apparent as he is listed in the supplementary records for this electorate.
Reside Date191148 Age: 43
Reside PlaceSydenham, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
MemoThomas and family lived at 7 Crohane Street in Sydenham. Thomas profession is listed as a "moulder".
Reside Date192550 Age: 57
Reside PlaceMatraville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoUntil 1926 after his second wife, Maud died Thomas moved to 3 King St. Randwick. His occupation was listed as "brass founder”. However later in 1925 he had moved to the home of daughter Edith Lillias Parker and her husband Charles at a house called "Mars" in Harold Street Matraville.
Reside Date192851 Age: 60
Reside PlaceBankstown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoTo 1929 he lived in Little Road in house named "Kinvarra". Charles and Edith Parker also moved to this home.
Reside Date193052 Age: 62
Reside PlaceRevesby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoBy 1930 Thomas had again moved his new address was a house called "Tinara" (76) in Turvey Street, Revesby. This move probably coincided with his younger daughter Elizabeth Beatrice marrying David Campbell and moving to Bondi. Thomas lived in Turvey Street until shortly before his death in 1935.
Death Date26 Mar 193553 Age: 67
Death PlaceLiverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoPulmonary Tuberculosis
Burial Date27 Mar 1935
Burial PlaceRookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoPresbyterian Cemetery, Rookwood NSW. Details from death certificate.
Occupationmoulder (NZ), Brass Founder (AU)
Alias/AKAAITKIN (birth)
FatherJames AITKEN (1838-1926)
MotherElizabeth Christie WALKER (1837-1918)
Marr Date1 Sep 193382
Marr PlaceWoollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marr MemoThomas and Mary were first cousins.
Marr Date1 Sep 193383
Marr PlaceWoollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
MemoAt the Congregational Church, Woollahra, Thomas, 64 widower married Mary McBride, 64 widow. Witnesses were Mary Macfanden & W Parks.
Notes for Mary Wilson WALKER
Mary’s Birthday Book is a source of many birth dates of family in the Aitken and Walker lines.
Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
In the 1891 census Thomas’ occupation is listed as “Dairy & Provision Merchant” . Could this be a grocer, as the only Thomas found in 1901 that could be him is a “grocer”. Perhaps these descriptions of occupation are the same! If this is correct Elizabeth isn’t residing with Thomas on that census night but a person that fits Elizabeth exactly is in Rothesay in Bute and listed as a wife and “grocer”. Elizabeth is alone on census night 1901.
Notes for Thomas Hudson (Spouse 2)
(Medical):For a time before his death he resided at the State Hospital & Men's Home, Liverpool, New South Wales.
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