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MURDOCH STIRTON's parents: JAMES STIRTON ( - ) and CATHERINE REID ( - )
MURDOCH STIRTON's sister: MARGARET STIRTON (chr.1834)

Family of MURDOCH STIRTON and ISOBELLA SHARP

Husband: MURDOCH STIRTON (1834-1899)
Wife: ISOBELLA SHARP (1838-1929)
Children: JAMES STIRTON (1866-1922)
JEMIMA RODGER STIRTON (1869- )
JOHN SHARP STIRTON (1871-1955)
HELEN SHARP STIRTON (1875- )
WILLIAM SHARP STIRTON (1876- )
MARGARET MCDONALD STIRTON (1878- )
MURDOCH STIRTON (1880-1937)
Marriage 10 Oct 1862 UNITED PRESBYERIAN CHURCH KILSPINDIE
Census (family) (1) 1881 RAIT COTTAGE, KILSPINDIE, PERTH
Census (family) (2) 1891 RAIT COTTAGE, KILSPINDIE, PERTH

Additional Information

Marriage <i>Witness's were John Sharp and Mary Bruce
both Murdoch and Isabella living in Pitroddie, Kilspindie, Perth</i>

Husband: MURDOCH STIRTON

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      MURDOCH STIRTON    
 
Name: MURDOCH STIRTON
Sex: Male
Father: JAMES STIRTON ( - )
Mother: CATHERINE REID ( - )
Christening 27 Jun 1834 (age -1 (!))
Birth 20 Jul 1834 DUNDEE, ANGUS
Residence 1875 (age 40-41) PITRODDIE VILLAGE, KILSPINDIE
Occupation (1) 1891 (age 56) WHIMSTONE SETTMAKER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Occupation (2) QUARRYMAN, WHIMSTONE SETT DRESSER
Death 11 Sep 1899 (age 65) PITRODDIE, KILSPINDIE, PERTHSHIRE

Additional Information

Residence CHURCH COTTAGES
Death Cause: of carsinoma of the bladder for 4 years

Wife: ISOBELLA SHARP

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      ISOBELLA SHARP    
 
Name: ISOBELLA SHARP
Sex: Female
Nickname: BELLA
Father: GEORGE SHARP (1809-1866)
Mother: JANET ROGER (1813-1879)
Birth 1838 KILSPINDIE, PERTH
Residence 1875 (age 36-37) PITRODDIE VILLAGE, KILSPINDIE
Census 1901 (age 62-63) PITRODDIE POST OFFICE, KILSPINDIE, PERTHSHIRE
Occupation 1901 (age 62-63) SUB POST MISTRESS; PITRODDIE VILLAGE
Death 6 Dec 1929 (age 90-91) KILSPINDIE, PERTH

Additional Information

Residence CHURCH COTTAGES
Census <i>Now a widower, and has 2 lodgers staying with her;
Alexander Watt 24 born in Aberdeen, and William Adams 39 again born in Aberdeen, both are Stone Masons</i>
Death Cause: of senile heart

Child 1: JAMES STIRTON

Name: JAMES STIRTON
Sex: Male
Spouse: JANET SCOTT BLACK (1869- )
Birth 1866 KILSPINDIE, PERTH
Occupation (1) 1891 (age 24) WHIMSTONE SETTMAKER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Census 1901 (age 34-35) LUNATIC ASYLUM, LITTLE DUNKELD,
Occupation (2) SETT MAKER
Death 24 Mar 1922 (age 55-56) KILSPINDIE, PERTH

Additional Information

Census <i>Down as a whimstone dresser, married and classed as a Lunatic</i>
Death Cause: of gastretitiss malignant

Child 2: JEMIMA RODGER STIRTON

Name: JEMIMA RODGER STIRTON
Sex: Female
Spouse: JAMES CARRICK (1873- )
Birth 1869 KILSPINDIE
Occupation DOMESTIC SERVANT
Death

Child 3: JOHN SHARP STIRTON

Name: JOHN SHARP STIRTON
Sex: Male
Spouse: CATHERINE BUTTERS (1876- )
Birth 1871 KILSPINDIE, PERTH
Census 1891 (age 19-20) KILSPINDIE, PERTH
Occupation (1) 1891 (age 20) WHIMSTONE SETTMAKER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Occupation (2) 1901 (age 29-30) STONE SETT MAKER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Occupation (3) 1901 (age 29-30) STONE DRESSER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Death (1)
Death (2) 7 Jun 1955 (age 83-84) DUNDEE, ANGUS

Additional Information

Death (2) Cause: IERSTEL CKITHELROMA ( 2 years)
Address: 4 ARKLEY TERRACE
Isabella Stirton ( Daughter) signed his death cerificate.

Child 4: HELEN SHARP STIRTON

Name: HELEN SHARP STIRTON
Sex: Female
Spouse: JOHN MORRISON WATT (1873-1912)
Birth 1875 KILSPINDIE , PERTH
Occupation DOMESTIC SERVANT
Death

Child 5: WILLIAM SHARP STIRTON

Name: WILLIAM SHARP STIRTON
Sex: Male
Spouse: MARGARET MACDONALD MCKENZIE (1884- )
Birth 1876 KILSPINDIE , PERTH
Occupation (1) 1891 (age 15) WHIMSTONE SETTMAKER; DUNDEE, ANGUS
Census 1901 (age 24-25) HAMILTON'S LAND, CONDORRATT, CUMBERNAULD
Occupation (2) 1901 (age 24-25) SETTMAKER; HAMILTON'S LAND, CONDORRATT, CUMBERNAULD
Death

Additional Information

Census <i>Staying with a James and Mary Keiller, James is a Settmaker, born in Kilspindie, Perth and Mary was born in Ireland.
5 Family's are on the same page as him, all either Sett makers or quarry workers, from all over the British Isle.</i>

Child 6: MARGARET MCDONALD STIRTON

Name: MARGARET MCDONALD STIRTON
Sex: Female
Spouse: THOMAS BAIRD GELLATLY (1876- )
Birth 1878 KILSPINDIE , PERTH
Immigration 20 Jul 1906 (age 27-28) to BOSTON, USA from FALKIRK, STIRLINGSHIRE
Death

Additional Information

Immigration 11 TYLER STREET, BOSTON
Travelling with sons Ernest and Norman

Child 7: MURDOCH STIRTON

Name: MURDOCH STIRTON
Sex: Male
Spouse: JEAN FYFFE (1883- )
Birth 1880 KILSPINDIE , PERTH
Death 13 Oct 1937 (age 56-57) LANADICE STREET, DUNDEE
Occupation STOREMAN for a MILK COMPANY GROCER AT TIME OF MARRIAGE

Additional Information

Death Cause: of lympho carconia pubis

Note on Marriage

WITNESSES JOHN SHARPE and MARY BRUCE

Note on Husband: MURDOCH STIRTON

STAYING WITH GEORGE AND JANET AS LODGER 1861 CEUSUS.

Note on Wife: ISOBELLA SHARP

<i>NAMED IN ELIZABETH GALT'S WILL, AS "ISABELLA STIRTON,

WIFE OF MURDOCH STIRTON-QUARRY MAN,

NEICE OF MY LATE HUSBAND"

TOOK IN LODGERS AFTER MURDOCH'S DEATH

 

 

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