Batton children 1900's

I have been doing some more research on our ancestors George Batton and Maggie McCurdie and their children. I read somewhere that they had 13 children but I only knew of 8 children.
So my quest yesterday was to try to identify the other 5 children and try to find out a bit more of what happened to them. I left myself thoroughly depressed.

It paints quite a sad picture of the times that George and Maggie must have been living in. Times must have been extremely tough for them, and even more so for Maggie when she lost her husband in 1929. Her youngest daughter was only 10 years old (May) and her oldest child only 25 (Lily). It is credit to Maggie and her remaining children that she lived to the ripe old age of 83 years and outlived her husband George by 30 years.

If anyone reading this can fill in the blanks for their own parents, siblings please drop me a note. My focus now is on completing Maggie and George's family history.

5 of their children died in infancy - Isabella, Robert, Agnes and twin girls Maggie and Jeanie.

The 13 children were born in the following years :

1901 - Isabella Farrell Batton (died 30th December 1901 aged 5 months). Cause of death bronchitis syncope.

1903 - Lily McGregor Batton - born 5th October 1903 and died aged 95 years (on 19/1/1999). Lily married John Paton on 30th October 1925. John died in 1964 aged 62 years.

1904 - Isabella Farrell Batton (Auntie Bella) - born 10th October 1904 and named after her baby sister who died 3 years earlier. Bella married Alexander Blackwood in 1940 in Muirkirk. Had daughters Margaret and Barbara. They lived in Canada.

1906 - Andrew Batton was born on 5th January 1906 and married Maggie McGhee on 13th February 1926. I know they had a son Andrew but I am not aware if they had other children.

1907 - Robert McCurdie Batton - born around May 1907 and died aged 9 months old on 8th February 1908.

1909 - Elizabeth (Aunt Cissy) Batton was born on 7th February 1909 at Kerse Row, Rankinston. She married John Tonner on 28th April 1928 at St Pauls Chapel, Galston. Cissy lived unti 1997. She had sons George and Pat and daughters Elizabeth (Betty), Margaret and Ellen. I don't know if there were other children.

1910 - Agnes McCurdie Batton was born around August 1910 and died on 10th December aged 4 months old. Cause of death was marasmus. Marasmus is a form of emaciation and wasting in an infant due to protein-energy malnutrition.

1912 - Twins Maggie Batton and Jeanie White Paterson Batton were born around August 1912 - Maggie died first on 28th November 1912. Cause of death at 3 months old was infantile convulsion. Her sister Jeanie died on 21st December 1912 aged 4 months old - cause of death was marasmus 2 months and infantile convulsions 1 day.

1913 - Maggie McCurdie Batton was born in 1913. She was named after her baby sister who had died the previous year. Maggie married William Strachan and they had 3 children - Willian, Alan and Margaret.

1915 - Nellie Batton was born in 1915 in Rankinston, Ayrshire. Helen married John Mair on 29th July 1932. Nellie and John had a son George Mair who married Jean. George and Jean had 2 sons John and Bob. I don't know if Nellie and John had other children.

1916 - George Batton (my grandfather) was born on 20th December 1916. He married Jean Docherty King in mid 1930's. Jean died of TB on 15th January 1952. They had 5 children - Frank, George, Margaret, Andrew and Jean Batton. George remarried, Maggie Dykes and they had one son, John Robert Batton. George died on 19th May 1976 of a heart attack.

1919 - Mary McCurdie Batton (Auntie May) was born on 5th May 1919 at Douglas West. May married Richard Gladwell on 25th May 1944. They had 3 children - Richard, Margaret and Linda. May died on 21st November 1994 and Dick died 21st June 1984.

Christmas 2009

My daughters Courtney age 17, Gillian age 20 and Ashleigh 21 - Christmas Day 2009


Courtney, me and Ashleigh - Christmas Day 2009

Hope everyone had a lovely time at Christmas and all the best for 2010.