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A year later they emigrated to Canada, settling first in Cayuga, Ontario. In 1883 Margaret's brother, Thomas Copland, encouraged them to move west with the Saskatoon Temperance Colonization Society and they built a home at Llewellyn. Margaret and William had 7 children; their two oldest daughters, Mary Kerr Hunter and Barbara Elizabeth Hunter, married brothers from the Anderson family – Burpee James Anderson and Newton Joseph Anderson, respectively. Margaret's brother, Thomas Copland, was one of the first settlers in Saskatoon, and was trained as a chemist and druggist. The University of Saskatchewan is located on his original homestead.
- http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/prairie_immigration/copland_hunter_anderson.shtml

 

 

Name: James Hunter Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844 Relationship: Head Spouse's name : Margaret Hunter Gender: Male Where born: Dunscore, Dumfriesshire Registration Number: 872 Registration district: Kirkgunzeon Civil parish: Kirkgunzeon County: Kirkcudbrightshire Address: Congeith Cottage Occupation: Farm Serv ED: 3 Household schedule number: 33 Line: 18 Roll: CSSCT1871_187 Household Members: Name Age James Hunter 27 Margaret Hunter 24 Margaret Hunter 6 Margaret Hunter 5 Isabella Hunter 4 MO Source Citation: Parish: Kirkgunzeon; ED: 3; Page:  8; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1871_187; Year: 1871. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. Reels 1-191. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Description: The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb.

Agnes Hunter died on Sept 23, 1884, in Kirkton, Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire, at the age of 85.

William Adam Hunter (William Hunter's son) died on Sept 12, 1894, and is buried in the Llewellyn Cemetery north of Saskatoon. - from http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2529486074&topic=3566

William Hunter (William Adam Hunter's father) died on Aug 11, 1895 in Kirgunzeon, Kircudbrightshire, at the age of 90. His son, James, was living in Kirkgunzeon.

 

Jim, Margaret (Daisy), Connie and Katie Hunter, c. 1920
This photo was takenshortley after Janet Hunter Died in case the children were taken into care.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13050904/person/-133419929/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid|pgNum

 

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Name: HUNTER , Janet (Wilson?) Address: Village of Dalswinton(835) Parish: Kirkmahoe Relationship: head of household Marital Status: widow Occupation: Age: 82 Born: born Kirkmahoe Dms Household No: 9/13	Name: HUNTER , Margaret Address: Village of Dalswinton(835) Parish: Kirkmahoe Relationship: daughter of Janet Hunter Marital Status: unmarried Occupation: SEWER Age: 50 Born: born Kirkmahoe Dms Household No: 9/13	Name: HUNTER , Janet Address: Village of Dalswinton(835) Parish: Kirkmahoe Relationship: daughter of Janet Hunter Marital Status: unmarried Occupation: DRESSMAKER Age: 40 Born: born Kirkmahoe Dms Household No: 9/13
Name: HUNTER , William Address: Village of Dalswinton(835) Parish: Kirkmahoe Relationship: head of household Marital Status: married Occupation: PLATELAYER Age: 22 Born: born Torthorwald Dms Household No: 9/4	Name: HUNTER , Ann (Boyd?) Address: Village of Dalswinton(835) Parish: Kirkmahoe Relationship: wife of William Hunter Marital Status: married Occupation: Age: 20 Born: born [Kirborock] Dms Household No: 9/4	Name: HUNTER , Adam Address: Corbelly(877) Parish: New Abbey Relationship: household of Isaac Graham Marital Status: unmarried Occupation: SERVANT farm Age: 19 Born: born Torthorwald Dms Household No: 2/19

In the 1851 census, Isaac Graham's occupation is listed as "FARMER of 136 acres employing 5 labourers". Adam Hunter was one of these farm labourers. New Abbey Parish is just to the north of Kirkbean Parish and south of Holywood and Kirkmahoe parishes.

William is listed as a platelayer which is a railway worker who lays and repairs rails.

"In early life William Hunter began work on the railroads and when but eighteen years of age had risen to the position of foreman in connection with the Glasgow & Southwestern Railroad in Scotland. He proved his ability and fidelity, which qualities won him advancement from time to time, and on one occasion he came within a single vote of being chosen assistant superintendent of the road. He was but twenty-four years of age when he bade adieu to Friends and native land and sailed for the new world, becoming a resident of Racine County." - excerpt from William Hunter of Racine County, Wisconsin.

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Map of Raymond Township, 1873, showing land owned by William, James and James Hunter
Courtesy University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
See original document

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The Hunter Family c. 1884
(Agnes, Mary, Janet, William & Maggie)

Mary Creighton Bell's great grandparents were Andrew Jardine and Elizabeth Johnstone and grandparents were Andrew Bell & Margaret Angus.

Mary Creighton Bell and William Robert Hunter were married on May 17, 1878 in Wamphray, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. William Hunter and Mary Bell were married against her father's wishes. William at the time worked in the Wamphray railway station where Mary's father was stationmaster.

They had seven children: Janet (Jenny Bell) Hunter (born July 5, 1878), John (born Aug 1, 1880), Maggie Robina (Ina) Hunter (born March 2, 1882), Agnes Effie Fortune Hunter (aka Ethel and Nana) (born May 18, 1884), Catherine Isabel (Kit) Hunter (born May 19, 1887), William Robert (born April 15, 1889), and Williamina Jane (Jean) Hunter (born May 4, 1891). The two boys both died in infancy.

William Robert Hunter was the Station Master at Bishopton, Renfrewshire. He was killed in a train accident on Jan 7, 1891, leaving Mary to raise their five children.

"Mr. Hunter, who leaves a widow and five children to mourn his loss, joined the service of the Caledonian Railway in January, 1871 and has gone through the various grades from boy-porter to stationmaster. He was for some time in the Parcels Department, and subsequently a relief signalman, and in that capacity his duty was sometimes to act as guard, so that he was well acquainted with the road and all the signals. He was also a man full of courage. At the time of the riots at Motherwell on Monday, he was on the spot. When the signal-cabin at Clyde Bridge was smashed to atoms as the bridge, no one could be got to enter it for some time. Hunter volunteered to go, and worked the handles till the place was boarded up, in the face of a hail of whipstones. He was also the first to enter the Muir Street wrecked signal station after it had been  smashed by the rioters."

For more information on the train wreck see the transcripts from The Glasgow Herald, Thursday, January 8, 1891, Disastrous Collision on Caledonian Railway, Man Killed - Blocking of Buchanan Street Tunnel and the Glasgow Evening News, Thursday, January 8, 1891, The Railway Strike, Collision at Buchanan Street Station and the article from the Dumfries and Galloway Saturday Standard, January 10, 1891 (pdf).

The Railway Board Report of the time indicates:

"763. Collision between a Mineral Train and Goods Train at West end of Buchanan Street Tunnel, Glasgow, 7th January. It was reported that William Hunter, Station Master, Bishipton, who was acting as Conductor of the Mineral Train was fatally injured and it was reported to the General Manager to ascertain particulars as to circumstances of family left by deceased with a view to making some provision for them."

"74. Collision between a Mineral Train and Goods Train at West end of Buchanan Street Tunnel, Glasgow, 7th January. The General Manager reported particulars as to the circumstances of the family of the late Wm Hunter, Station Master, Bishipton, in obedience to Board request of 20th January. Grant sum of £52 per annum for 10 years and then to cease and authorize the General Manager to make the necessary arrangements."

In the 1891 Scotland Census (April 5-6), Mary Bell and her four children were living with her brother Andrew (who was Station Master at the Bishopton Railway Station, Erskine) and his family.

1891 Scotland Census - Erskine, Renfrewshire

Name: Andrew Bell Age: 37 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Relationship: Head Spouse's name : Maggie Gender: Male Where born: Gretna, Dumfries Registration Number: 563 Registration district: Erskine Civil Parish: Erskine County: Renfrewshire Address: Station Ho Occupation: Railway St Master ED: 1 Household schedule number: 64(a) Line: 15 Roll: CSSCT1891_178 Household Members: Name Age Andrew Bell 37 Maggie Bell 38 Maggie B Bell 17 Janet J Bell 10 John M Bell 8 Andrew Bell 6 Elizabeth Bell 3 Mary C Hunter 35 Janet Hunter 12 Maggie Hunter 9 Agnes Hunter 6 Catherine Hunder 3 Source Citation: Parish: Erskine; ED: 1; Page:  16; Line: 15; Roll: CSSCT1891_178; Year: 1891. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1891 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. Reels 1-409. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Description: The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891.

Mary Bell's fifth daughter, Williamina Jane "Jean" Hunter, was born on May 4, 1891. Sometime between 1891 and 1901 Mary Bell (Hunter) and her five children had moved from the Bishopton / Erskine area to Dundee.

John Hunter died on August 27, 1895, and Catherine Brockie died on May 23, 1899, both at Bankend, Caerlaverock.

John Bell (Mary's father) died Jan 20, 1897, in Wamphray.

 1901 Scotland Census - St. Andrew, Dundee, Angus
Mary Bell Hunter and Family

Name: Mary Hunter Age: 42 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859 Relationship: Head Gender: Female Where born: Gretna, Dumfriesshire Registration Number: 282/4 Registration district: St Andrew Civil Parish: Dundee County: Angus Address: 4 C Kings Street Occupation: Living On Own Means ED: 15 Household schedule number: 169 Line: 19 Roll: CSSCT1901_100 Household Members: Name Age Mary Hunter 42 Janet Hunter 22 Maggie R Hunter 19 Agnes E Hunter 16 Catherine I Hunter 13 Williamina J Hunter 9 Source Citation: Parish: Dundee; ED: 15; Page:  30; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1901_100; Year: 1901. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Description: The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901.

Janet's occupation was "waitress", Maggie's occupation was "Cardboard Box Maker", Agnes' occupation was "Waitress Restaurant", Catherine's occupation was "Paper Ruler Printie Worker", and Williamina was a "scholar".

A James Mitchell (not this one) would later marry Catherine "Kit" Hunter
See original document

The King Street Neighbourhood, Dundee

North side of King St. looking east towards the factory (Dens Works - far right) c 1892

Map of Dundee showing King Street (upper middle) c 1900

Royal Bank of Scotland, 3 King Street, Dundee, c 1900

The Hunter's neighbourhood on King Street, Dundee, c 1900
The Royal Bank of Scotland is on the far left

Cowgate Public School, Dundee, c 1900
Photo by Alexander Wilson

Janet "Jenny" Hunter married Robert Pennycook (born about 1882) on September 28, 1904, in the St. Clement District, Dundee. They had at least one child: Robert John "Jack" Pennycook (born July 15, 1907, in Dundee). Janet "Jenny Bell" Hunter died on June 10, 1921 in Falkirk, Scotland, at the age of 43.

Janet Dinwoodie Jardine (Bell) (Mary's mother) died on Aug 26, 1906, in Wamphrey, Dumfriesshire, at the age of 88.

Agnes (Ethel) Hunter, Dundee, Scotland, c 1908

Williamina Jane (Jean) and Agnes (Ethel) Hunter, Dundee, Scotland, c 1909

Agnes (Ethel) Hunter married Robert Russell in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Dundee on April 12, 1909.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Dundee, c 1909
Photograph by Alexander Wilson

Agnes Effie Fortune Hunter & Robert Russell

1911 Scotland Census - Perth

Robert Pennycook, Janet Hunter and Jack Pennycook
Robert was a "cinematograhy manager" at the Picture Palace
See original document

John Pennycook (grocer) and family in the 1911 Scotland Census, 4 Wellington Street, Dundee
Robert John "Jack" Pennycook was enumerated twice
See original document

Mary Bell Hunter and her other daughters probably moved to England sometime in 1911 (or they may have just been visiting).

1911 Census - England and Wales - Lydenberg, Butterhill, Carshalton Parish

Mary Creighton Bell Hunter and three daughters were living next door to Agnes Russell outside of London, England
Mary was a "housekeeper" and the girls were "Chocolate Coverers" in a Confectionary.
See original document

1911 Census - England and Wales - Milton, Kent, Sittingbourne Parish

John Drury (Jean's future husband) was living with his uncle in Kent, England
Frederick Drury's occupation is listed as "Paper Maker"
John Drury and his brother William were "Lloyd's Mill Labourers"
Both John and William were born on Milton Road, Sittingbourne, Kent
See original document | See also the 1901 Census

Paper manufacture started in Sittingbourne in 1708, when Peter Archer was recorded as a Paper Maker. Sittingbourne Mill existed from circa 1769, which by 1820 had grown and was owned by Edward Smith. The Daily Chronicle owner Edward Lloyd bought the site in 1863. Using pulped straw from the local farmers and esparto (imported from Algeria and Southern Spain) as a replacement for expensive cotton rag which was becoming more expensive; the output supplied newsprint his mills in Bow. To speed production, in 1904 Lloyd built a wharf on the tidal inlet at Milton Creek, and a horse-drawn tramway to carry materials to the mill. On what is now known as the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, in 1906 the first of three steam locomotives, Premier, came into service, all 0-4-2 Brazil type tank engines sourced from Kerr Stuart. In 1913 the railway was extended to the new dock built at Ridham. In 1912, Sittingbourne Paper Mill was the largest producer of newsprint in the world, with its 1,200 employees using 17 machines to make over 2000 tonnes per week, supplying the demands of Fleet Street. In 1924, Lloyd's son built a new factory at Kemsley, together with a model village for employees. He died in 1936, when the Lloyd group was taken over by Sir William Berry, who in 1936 formed the Bowater-Lloyd Group. After both plants were acquired by Metsa Serla in 1998, the decision was made to close the Sittingbourne Mill in October 2006, with the last reel produced on the 23rd January, 2007. - Wikipedia

Robert "Bob" Pennycook, c 1914
C.H. Knight & Co., 69 Wellington St., Woolwich, S.E., England

Mary Bell (Hunter) and Grandchildren
Ron Russell, Mary Bell, Winifred Russell and Robert John (Jack) Pennycook
Jack was the son of Janet Hunter and Robert Pennycook
J. Jolly Studios, Carnoustie, Scotland, c 1915

MARRIAGE:
Kathleen (Catherine) I. Hunter married James A. Mitchell in Elham, Kent, England, on Sept 22, 1915. Both of them were living in Folkestone at the time of their marriage. James Mitchell was with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and was stationed at Ceasar's Camp near Folkestone. Kit was living at 16 St. John's St. Folkestone.

Ron & Winnie Russell c. 1915
Valentine's Studios, Folkestone, England

From Folkestone During the War

James Agnew Mitchell was born on Dec 27, 1887, in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland, but was in the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force at the time of their marriage. On his attestation papers dated Dec 30, 1914, Medicine Hat, Alberta, he states his occupation as machinist. He was a Private and "Railway Engineer" in the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles at the time of their marriage and indicated that his father was James Mitchell, Coal Merchant. He would eventually make it to the rank of Sergeant.

3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles (3 CMR) was authorized on 5 November 1914 to mobilize at Medicine Hat and to draw its recruits from Calgary, Edmonton and Medicine Hat. The Regiment actually began recruiting in mid-December 1914 and had obtained the majority of its men by the end of January 1915, although the last two recruits were attested on 7 and 8 June respectively at Sewell Camp, Manitoba en route to the embarkation port of Montreal. The Regiment sailed for England on 12 June 1915 and arrived in England seven days later as part of 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade, along with 1 CMR recruited in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and 2 CMR from Vernon and Victoria, British Columbia. The Brigade went to France as infantry on 22 September 1915 but mounted rifles regiments had an establishment that amounted to about 60% of the strength of infantry battalions, and were therefore a poor fit in the tactical situation. Consequently, on 1 January 1916, 3 CMR was disbanded and its men apportioned to 1 and 2 CMR to increase the strengths of those regiments to that of infantry battalions. - from Alberta Family Histories Society

The 3rd Regiment received it's order to move at 9:30 AM on Sept 22 and left camp at 5:20 PM. James married Kit that day. The 3rd regiment shipped out of Folkstone at 6:40 PM for Boulogne, France. - from War Diaries of the First World War, 3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Sept 20-24, 1915

The 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR) formed the main part of the 3rd Division, 8th Infantry Brigade.  The 3rd CMR was absorbed into the 1st and 2nd CMR and the 6th CMR was absorbed into the 4th and 5th CMR, so in essence to 1st to 6th CMR all became part of the 3rd Division 8th Infantry Brigade.  For further details on each of these units, please refer to the unit pages at the 8th Infantry Brigade. Chris Wight summarized for us that originally when recruited as mounted rifles, all units were known as "x" Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles. The name change, for all C.M.R. units came in December 1915 when these units were redesignated as infantry which necessitated their complement of men being increased to that of an infantry battalion. Accordingly, two C.M.R. Regiments were dissolved (3rd and 6th), the men being separated between units; in the case of the 5th C.M.R., they received men from the 6th C.M.R. (the 4th C.M.R. received the other half). - from Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group

Mary Bell (Hunter) died in Dundee, Sept 10, 1916, at the age of 60.

Ron Russell, Janet (Jenny) Hunter Pennycook and Winnie Russell c 1916

Jack, Robert and Jenny Hunter Pennycook

From Folkestone During the War

From Folkestone During the War

James Mitchell (General Delivery, Calgary) returned to England and then came back to Canada in Sept, 1920. From Medicine Hat, James Mitchell and Kit Hunter may have continued on together to Vancouver, B.C.

John (Jack) Harold Drury and Williamina Jane (Jean) Hunter were probably married in Portsmouth, Southampton in early 1920 (from England and Wales, Marriage Index at Ancestry.com) and made their way to Powell River, British Columbia, where Jack worked in the pulp mill. Their son Roy Creighton Drury was born in Vancouver, B.C.  in 1921. Roy married Margaret Blanche McLachlan (from Vernon, B.C.) sometime during WW II. Roy was in training at the Vernon Camp when they met. They had three children: Don; and twins Barry and Wayne. Roy Drury died on Dec 25, 1995, and Peggy on Dec 24, 2009. - from Susan Drury

Janet "Jenny Bell" Hunter died on June 10, 1921 in Falkirk, Scotland, at the age of 43.

The Pennycook Circuit purchased the BB Cinerama (Tay Street, Dundee) in 1922
See more about the BB Cinerama

Kathleen Isabel (Kit) Hunter entered the USA in Seattle (from Vancouver) in July, 1923.

See original document

John H. Drury, Labourer, is listed in the Wrigley Henderson Amalgamted BC Directory living at 111 Maple Ave, Powell River.

James Agnew Mitchell worked as the "3rd Engineer" aboard the Canadian Seigneur that sailed from Vancouver, B.C. arriving into San Francisco, California on May 10, 1925.

Roy Drury & Joy Russell c. 1928
Powell River, B.C.

San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug 7, 1945

Mr. Watson (?), unidentified children & Jean (Hunter) Drury
Douglas Bay near Powell River, B.C., Canada, c 1947

Maggie Robina (Ina) Hunter, Agnes Effie Fortune "Ethel" Russell (Hunter), Glenda Waugh & Catherine (Kit) Hunter
Oakland, California, 1951

Donald Drury, Glenda & Jeff Waugh, Roy Drury (?) & Joy (Bunty) Russell, 
Douglas Bay, 1953

Application for Social Security (or Replacement of Lost Card) for Katherine Isabel Hunter, April 8, 1958

Maggie Robina "Ina" Hunter died June 11, 1964, in Oakland, California, Catherine Isabel "Kit" Hunter died on March 17, 1971, in Oakland, California, Agnes Effie Fortune Hunter died on February 7, 1976, in Vancouver, B.C. and Williamina Jane "Jean" Hunter died on July 27, 1976, in Los Angeles, California.

Former Ritz Cinema manager Robert Pennycook
Robert Pennycook, the last manager of the Ritz Cinema in Dundee, has died at the age of 88.
By Stefan Morkis
Published in the Courier : 28.01.11
Published online : 30.01.11 @ 12.16pm
 
The Pennycook family owned a number of cinemas in Dundee - including the State, which is now the Whitehall Theatre, the Royalty in Baffin Street, the Cinemarain in South Tay Street and the Ritz in Morgan Street. He was born and raised in Dundee, where he attended Glebelands Primary School and Stobswell Secondary. After leaving school, he helped his family run their cinemas. He joined the RAF during the second world war and served in Egypt and Canada. Upon his return to civilian life, he became manager of the Ritz until it closed in 1959. Mr Pennycook then worked at NCR before becoming warehouse manager with William Low, where he worked until his retirement. Predeceased by his wife Dorothy, he is survived by his daughter Pamela and granddaughters Lee and Perii.

 

Agnes Effie Fortune Hunter & Robert Russell

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