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Notes for Wilhelmina Turner Beattie: The spelling of Wilhelmina is different in different documents. Her daughter, Dot, remembers the spelling as Wilhelmina. This is the way it was recorded on the ship's passenger list, her certifcate of marriage, and the 1920 census, on David's Petition for Naturalization her name is recorded as Williamina.
Wilhelmina told her children that her birth date on her brith certificate is off by one day. The reason for this is that the doctor failed to report the birth in the proper time, the story goes that the doctor change the birth date so it would not be filed late.
She arrived in America on 8 Feb 1912 on the S. S. Ionian (Allan Line). The ship sailed from Glasgow on 24 Jan 1912. She listed her occupation as a shop assistant on the passenger log. Her last address in Scotland was 4 Warrick Street, Glasgow. According to the log, this was was her uncle's address. His name was McKay. (Information from T843, Roll 173, at the Waltham Branch of the National Archives.)
In the 1891 census for Glasgow there is a Warwich Street. At 6 Warwich Street there was a Donald McKay (age 46) and his wife, Anna (age 47) and one son, Daniel (age 17). Donald was a Cooper and Daniel was Lithographier Printers Apprentice.
She got married the same day she arrived in America
Wilhelmia had a relative in America when she arrived. On the passenger list it states that brother lives at 299 Church Street, Marlboro, Mass. (Note: this should be Marlborough, MA) Over written in next to this place on the log is the entry "David Kann 5 Brown St Waltham.
1901 BEATTIE WILLIAMINA T F 13 KINNING PARK LANARK 644/14 006/000
1888 BEATTIE WILLIAMINA TURN F ST ROLLOX GLASGOW 644/06 0327
Birth Info: District: ST ROLLOX GLASGOW GROS Data: 644/06 0327
More About Wilhelmina Turner Beattie: Arrived in USA: 1912. Census: 1920; roll 719, ED 504, Sh 5, line 22. Occupation: Shop Assistant (in Scotland).
More About Wilhelmina Turner Beattie and David Kann: Marriage: February 08, 1912, Waltham, MA.1 Marriage Fact: Married by Rev. William H. Dyas, Thursday at 4:00pm.
Marriage Notes for Wilhelmina Turner Beattie and David Kann: Newspaper clip of the marriage is pasted in Alexander's book on CREATION (called his bible) given to him on his seventh brithday (1919). It states: "- David Kann of 5 Brown street and Wilhelmina Turner Beattie of Glasgow, Scotland, were united in marriage by Rev. William H. Dyas, Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Beth Eden Baptist church parsonage."
Church located on Maple Street, near Moody. Additional information regarding church address from Waltham and Watertown Directory - 1895, No. 12, obtained from Edith Wells Kann. Updated here on 12/29/93.
Children of Wilhelmina Turner Beattie and David Kann are:
+Alexander Beattie Kann, b. December 05, 1912, Waltham, MA2, d. August 20, 1986, Waltham, MA.