William Laidlaw PITT (1873-1948)

Samuel PITT Jonathon PITT Annie PITT Elspeth PITT Mary Ann Dalgleish PITT Elizabeth Thomson PITT Samuel PITT Agnes PITT Agnes Goldie GIBB John PITT Mary-Ann Dalgliesh PITT Samuel PITT David PITT Ann LAIDLAW Mini tree diagram

Individual Events and Attributes

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Headstone of William Laidlaw Pitt and Agnes G Pitt

  • Birth:

  • Feb 27, 1873

  • Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland1

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  • Address: Catrine

  • Census:

  • Apr 5, 1891 (age 15)

  • Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland2

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  • Address: Chapel Street, Catrine

  • Occupation:

  • Apr 5, 1891 (age 18)

  • Cotton Spinner's Assistant2

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  • Employer/Employed/Neither Employer nor Employed: Employed

  • Immigration:

  • Mar 20, 1913 (age 40)

  • to St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada3

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  • Athenia departed Glasgow on 8 March 1913; arrived St John, NB 20 March 1913

  • Immigration:

  • c. 1923 (age 49-50)4

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  • Residence:

  • Oct 29, 1948 (age 75)

  • Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada1

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  • Address: 281 Pim St, Sault Ste. Marie

  • Occupation:

  • Oct 29, 1948 (age 75)

  • Retired; Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada1

  • Death:

  • Oct 29, 1948 (age 75)

  • Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada1

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  • Cause: Myocarditis, natural causes

    Address: 281 Pim St, Sault Ste. Marie

  • Burial:

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  • Park Lawn Cemetery, Sudbury, Ontario5

Marriage

Individual Note

Emmigrated to Canada with family. had contract with Mr Fruit to work on his farm in White Fish Falls. After 5yr contract moved to Espenola where Beth and sisters married

Sources

1.

Death Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada (281 Pim St, Sault Ste. Marie) 29 Oct 1948 William Laidlaw Pitt.

 

PROVINCE OF ONTARIOCERTIFICATE OF DEATH

 

1. PLACE OF DEATH 281 Pim St, Loo Ont, Algoma

2. LENGTH OF STAY 2 yrs in municipality, 25 yrs in province

3. PRINT FULL NAME OF DECEASED Pitt Wm

RESIDENCE 281 Pim St, Loo Ont

4. Sex

 

Male

5. NationalityCanadian

6. Racial OriginScottish

7. Single, Married,

Widowed or Divorced

Married

 

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

 

8. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

9. DATE OF BIRTH February 4 2873

10. AGE 75

OCCUPATION

11. Trade, profession or kind of work Retired

12. Kind of industry or business

13. Date deceased last worked at this occupation

14. Total years spent in this occupation

15. If married give name of wife Agnes Goldie Gibb

or husband of deceased

FATHER

16. NAME Samuel Pitt

17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

MOTHER

18. MAIDEN NAME Ann Laidlaw

19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

20. Person giving information Agnes Goldie Gibb

Address 281 Pim St, Sault Ste. Marie

Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal

Date of burial or removal

22. Burial Permit was issued by

Address

23. UNDERTAKER

24. DATE OF DEATH October 29 1948

25. I HEREBY CERTIFY that I attended deceased from:

CAUSE OF DEATH Myocarditis, natural causes

26. If a woman, was the death associated with pregnancy?

27. Was there a surgical operation?Date of operation

State findings Was there an autopsy?

28. If death was due to external causes (violence) fill in also the following:

Signed by M.D.

29. Division Registrar's Record No.

30. Filed 29 Oct 1948 Harold Tollen

 

 

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Death Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, Ontario, Canada (281 Pim St, Sault Ste. Marie) 29 Oct 1948 William Laidlaw Pitt

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Census 1891 Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland Census 1891 613/00 011/00 017, (Census 1891 613/00 011/00 017).

Census Scotland 1891

Address: Chapel Street, Catrine

Place: Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

Name

Relation

Condition

Sex

Age

Occupation

Employ Status

Where Born

Language

Infirmity

Num Rooms

Samuel Pitt

Head

M

M

42

Cotton Mill Worker

Employed

Prestwick, Aryshire, Scotland

4

Ann Pitt

Wife

M

F

41

Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

 

Jonathon Pitt

Son

S

M

19

Cotton Card Stripper

Employed

Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

William Laidlaw Pitt

Son

S

M

15

Cotton Spinner's Assistant

Employed

Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

Mary-Ann Dalgliesh Pitt

Daughter

F

9

Scholar

Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

Samuel Pitt

Son

M

4

Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

David Pitt

Son

M

2

Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland

 

 

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Census Scotland 1891 Census 1891 613/00 011/00 017

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Census Scotland 1891 Census 1891 613/00 011/00 017

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Manifest.

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Incoming Passenger List

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Death Certificate.

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