William Laidlaw Pitt (1873-1948)

Samuel Pitt Jonathon Pitt Agnes Pitt Annie Pitt Elspeth Pitt Mary Ann Dalgleish Pitt Elizabeth Thomson Pitt Samuel 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, Scotland

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  • Address: Catrine

  • Census:

  • Apr 5, 1891 (age 15)

  • Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland1

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  • Address: Chapel Street, Catrine

  • Occupation:

  • Apr 5, 1891 (age 18)

  • Cotton Spinner's Assistant1

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  • Employer/Employed/Neither Employer nor Employed: Employed

  • Immigration:

  • Mar 20, 1913 (age 40)

  • to St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada2

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

  • Immigration:

  • c. 1923 (age 49-50)3

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  • Death:

  • Oct 29, 1948 (age 75)

  • Algoma, Ontario, Canada3

  • Burial:

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  • Park Lawn Cemetery, Sudbury, Ontario4

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

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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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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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Incoming Passenger List

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Manifest.

3.

Death Certificate.

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