Margaret Harten Hunter Wilson
1899 - 1939 (40 years)
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Name Margaret Harten Hunter Wilson [1] Born 16 Feb 1899 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 
[1] Gender Female Residence 1901 Glasgow Bridgeton, Lanarkshire, Scotland [1] Age: 2; RelationToHead: Daur Died 4 May 1939 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Person ID I20646 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 22 Aug 2024
Father Samuel Kennedy Wilson, b. 1866, Ireland , d. 22 Mar 1933, Glasgow Bridgeton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 67 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary Hunter, b. 11 Aug 1866, Whitehouse District, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland , d. 4 Sep 1936, Glasgow Bridgeton, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Married 27 Apr 1888 Glasgow Calton, Lanarkshire, Scotland [2] Family ID F6948 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Thomas Whitelaw, b. 1898, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. 1960, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 62 years) Married 6 Feb 1919 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Children 1. Living Whitelaw [natural] 2. Child Whitelaw, b. 1920, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]3. Child Whitelaw, b. 1922, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]4. Child Whitelaw, b. 1923, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]5. Ellen Whitelaw, b. 1925, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. 1993, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 68 years) [natural]6. Thomas Whitelaw, b. 1927, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]7. Child Whitelaw, b. 1929, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]8. Child Whitelaw, b. 1931, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]9. Child Whitelaw, b. 1933, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]10. Child Whitelaw, b. 1935, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN, St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada [natural]Last Modified 22 Aug 2024 Family ID F7245 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - There's a bit of a sad story regarding my grandmother, Margaret Harten Hunter Wilson. Her parents, Mary Hunter and Samuel Wilson were very rich. I think the Wilson family were business people and had built up successful business across Glasgow and Edinburgh, which were passed down to future generations. Margaret's parents didn't approve of Thomas Whitelaw, my grandfather, as he didn't come from a rich family and they thought she could do a lot better. When she married Thomas in 1919 (she was 20 years old), her parents disowned her and she was disinherited.
My Mother, Ellen (born in 1925), never knew her grandparents or any of her mother's family. But she did remember one 'gentleman', who she knew was her uncle, who used to visit Margaret. He would arrive in a big car and he always wore a top hat and tails - the kids called him 'The Toff.' And he'd give them pennies for sweets. My mum's family lived in a two bedroomed flat in Bridgeton (Glasgow) and she shared a bed with her brothers and sisters - they weren't destitute, but they weren't rich either.
Margaret had 10 children in 20 years (1920-1937) and died in 1939. My Mum was 13 years old and, since her older sister had married and left home, she became 'mum' to her 5 younger brothers & sisters. Her dad, Thomas, became an alcoholic. Then war broke out!
--Anna McKessock
- There's a bit of a sad story regarding my grandmother, Margaret Harten Hunter Wilson. Her parents, Mary Hunter and Samuel Wilson were very rich. I think the Wilson family were business people and had built up successful business across Glasgow and Edinburgh, which were passed down to future generations. Margaret's parents didn't approve of Thomas Whitelaw, my grandfather, as he didn't come from a rich family and they thought she could do a lot better. When she married Thomas in 1919 (she was 20 years old), her parents disowned her and she was disinherited.
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Sources - [S100] 1901 Scotland Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;), Parish: Glasgow Bridgeton; ED: 67; Page: 23; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1901_266.
Record for Mary Wilson
https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1101&h=3618993&indiv=try - [S7] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;).
Record for Mary Hunter
https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=170037325736&indiv=try
- [S100] 1901 Scotland Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;), Parish: Glasgow Bridgeton; ED: 67; Page: 23; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1901_266.