Harrower Family Tree » William Lunn Harrower (1881-1957)

Personal data William Lunn Harrower 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4
  • He was born on October 17, 1881 in 18 Pringle Street, Wilton, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Profession: in the year 1909 Shoemaker (Journeyman) in 5 Dovemount Place, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Source 6
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1901: Castlehill Barracks, Aberdeen, Scotland.Sources 2, 3, 7
    • in the year 1891: 2 Wilton Crescent, Wilton, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Source 4
    • in the year 1909: 5 Dovemount Place, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Source 6
    • in the year 1917: 12 Oliver Place, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Source 8
  • (Informant at Death) on July 17, 1957 in Peel Hospital, Galashiels, Roxburgshire, Scotland: Mary Harrower, Sister in Law ( Mary Foster or Scott).Source 9
  • (Usual Residence) before July 17, 1957 in 1 Frank Place, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.Source 9
  • (Newspaper Article) on September 25, 1914: Hawick Express - Friday 25 September 1914 A Good Army record.Source 10
  • (Newspaper Article) on January 17, 1919 in 16 Bridge Street, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland: Hawick Express - Friday 17 January 1919 Boot & Shoemaker.Source 11
  • He died on July 17, 1957 in Peel Hospital, Galashiels, Roxburgshire, Scotland, he was 75 years old.Source 9
    Oorzaak: Acute Appendicitus, Generalised Peritonitis, Paralytic Ileus
  • A child of George Harrower and Elizabeth Betsey Reid

Household of William Lunn Harrower

He is married to Christina Cook.

They got married on June 10, 1909 at St Margarets Manse, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, he was 27 years old.Source 6

Event (Witness at Marriage) on June 10, 1909 in St Margarets Manse, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland : Mary Cooke, John Harrower.Source 6


Notes about William Lunn Harrower

1. Married to Christina Cook, St Margarets Church, Hawick, 10 Jun 1909. See Army records sheet 307.

2. HARROWER, WILLIAM, COOKE, CHRISTINA, 1909, 789/ 45, Hawick

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Lunn Harrower

Colin Harrower
1819-1877
Ann or Agnes Syme
1825-1897
Agnes Reid
± 1835-1913

William Lunn Harrower
1881-1957

1909

Christina Cook
1865-1956


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    1. British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [Ancestry.com], Record for William Lunn Harrower 6671 Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.
      Record for William L Harrower
      Name: William L Harrower
      Regiment or Corps: Gordon Highlanders
      Regimental Number: 6671
    2. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for William Harrower Parish: Aberdeen East; ED: Military Barracks Aberdeen; Page: 9; Line: 17; Roll: CSSCT1901_54 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online
      Record for William Harrower
      Name: William Harrower
      Age: 20
      Estimated birth year: abt 1881
      Relationship: Soldier
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Hawick, Roxburgh
      Registration Number: 168/1
      Registration district: St Nicholas
      Civil Parish: Aberdeen East
      County: Aberdeenshire
      Address: Castlehill Aberdeen
      Occupation: Private Soldier Gordon Highlanders Infantry
      ED: Military Barracks Aberdeen
      Household schedule number: 1
      Line: 17
      Roll: CSSCT1901_54
      Name Age
      William Harrower 20
    3. British Army WW1 Pension Records 1914-1920 [Ancestry.com], Record for William Lunn Harrower WO364; Piece: 1557 Source Information Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: The National Archives of the UK (TNA).
      Record for William Lunn Harrower
      Name: William Lunn Harrower
      Gender: Male
      Birth Date: abt 1881
      Birth Place: Hawick, Roxburgh
      Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1909
      Marriage Place: St Margarets Hawick
      Age: 18
      Document Year: 1899
      Regimental Number: 6671
      Regiment Name: London Regiment
      Form Title: Short Service Attestation
      Number of Images: 9
    4. 1891 Scotland Census Scotlands People, 1891 HARROWER, GEORGE (Census 810/ 5/ 7) Parish: Wilton 1891 Scotland Census [Scotlandspeople.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online
      Record for George Harrower
      Name: George Harrower
      Age: 41
      Estimated birth year: abt 1850
      Relationship: Head
      Spouse's name: Elizabeth Harrower
      Gender: Male
      Where born: Alloa, Clackmannanshire
      Registration Number: 810
      Registration district: Wilton
      Civil Parish: Wilton
      County: Roxburghshire
      Address: 2 Wilton Crest
      Occupation: Wool Web Drawer
      Household Members:
      Name Age
      George Harrower 41 Head
      Elizabeth Harrower 34 Wife. Kelso
      Colin Harrower 16 Son. Hawick. Wool Web Drawer
      Thomas Harrower 14 Son. Hawick. Unemployed
      George Harrower 11 Son. Hawick. Unemployed
      William Harrower 9 Son. Hawick.
      John Harrower 4 Son. Hawick.
      Maggie Harrower 2 Daughter. Hawick
    5. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Births (from 1855), 1881 HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN (Statutory registers Births 810/ 161)
      1881 HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN (Statutory registers Births 810/ 161)
      Births in the District of Wilton in the County of Roxburgh 1881.
      William Lunn Harrower
      1881 October Seventeenth 10h A.M.
      18 Pringle Street, Wilton M.
      Parents: George Harrower
      Wool Handloom Weaver
      Elizabeth Harrower M.S. Reid
      m. 1876 Jue 5th, Hawick
      Inf. George Harrower, Father
      Registered
      1881 November 2nd, Wilton
      James Shiel
      Registrar
    6. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Marriages (from 1855), 1909 HARROWER, WILLIAM, CHRISTINA COOKE (Statutory registers Marriages 789/ 45)
      1909 HARROWER, WILLIAM, CHRISTINA COOKE (Statutory registers Marriages 789/ 45)
      Marriages in the Parish of Hawick in the County of Roxburgh 1909.
      1909 Tenth June
      St Margarets Manse, Hawick
      After Banns According to the Forms of the Established Church of Scotland
      (Signed)
      William Harrower
      Shoemaker (Journeyman)
      (Bachelor) Age 27,
      5 Dovemount Place, Hawick
      Parents: George Harrower,
      Tweed Web Drawer
      Elizabeth Harrower
      M.S. Reid
      (Signed)
      Christina Cooke
      Wool Powerloom Weaver,
      (Spinster) Age 37
      1 Carnarvon Street, Hawick
      Parents: Walter Cooke,
      General Labourer (Deceased)
      Catherine Clayhorn Cooke,
      M.S. Learmouth (Deceased)
      (Signed)
      Wm. C. McCullough
      St Margaret Parish, Hawick
      (Signed)
      John Harrower, Witness
      Mary Cooke, Witness
      Registered
      1909 June 10th, Hawick
      James Thomline
      Registrar
    7. British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [Ancestry.com], Record for William Harrower
      Name: William Harrower
      Military Year: 1914-1920
      Rank: Company Sergeant Major
      Company: WO 329
      Regiment or Corps: Gordon Highlanders
      Regiment Number: 6671
      Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal
    8. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1917 HARROWER, JANET (Statutory registers Deaths 789/ 118)
      1917 HARROWER, JANET (Statutory registers Deaths 789/ 118)
      Deaths in the Parish of Hawick in the County of Roxburgh 1917.
      Janet Harrower
      Hosiery Machinist (Single)
      1917 May Thirteenth 11h. 45m. A.M.
      The Anderson Sanatorium, Hawick
      (Usual residence 4 Wellington Street, Hawick)
      F. 25 years
      Parents: George Harrower
      Woollen Web Drawer (Deceased)
      Elizabeth Harrower
      M.S, Reid
      COD: Tuberculosis of Lungs - 1 year
      Cardiac Failure (Sudden)
      as cert, by Sam. Geo. Davidson M.D.
      Inf. Wm. Harrower, Brother
      12 Oliver Place, hawick
      Registered
      1917 May 14th, Hawick
      James Thomline
      Registrar
    9. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1957 HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN (Statutory registers Deaths 775/ 207)
      1957 HARROWER, WILLIAM LUNN (Statutory registers Deaths 775/ 207)
      Deaths in the District of Galashiels in the County of Selkirk 1957.
      William Lunn Harrower
      Hosiery Worker
      Widow of Christina Cook
      1957 July Seventeenth 6h. 0m. A.M.
      Peel Hospital, Galashiels
      (Usual residence 1 Frank Place, Hawick)
      M. 75 Years
      Parents: George Harrower
      Wool Hand Loom Weaver (deceased)
      Elizabeth Harrower afterwards Wilson
      M.S, Reid (deceased)
      COD: Acute Appendisitis
      Generalised Peritonitis
      Paralytic Ileus
      as cert. by Iain M Macintyre M.B.Ch.B.
      Inf: Mary Harrower
      Sister in Law
      202 Taylor Street, Aberhill, Methil
      Registered
      1957 July 17th Galashiels
      A.E. Bunyan Registrar
    10. Newspaper Article, 1914 Hawick Express - Friday 25 September 1914 George Harrower, 5 Dovemount Place Colin Harrower William Lunn Harrower Walter Harrower George Weatherhead
      Hawick Express - Friday 25 September 1914
      A GOOD ARMY RECORD.
      Mr George Harrower, 5 Dovemount Place, has three sons in the Army, one son-in-law, and six nephews. His Sons are, Sergt. Colin Harrower. 5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders; Sergt. W. L. Harrower, 1st Battalion. Gordon Highlanders; and Trooper Walter Harrower, Scots Greys. His son-in-law is Private George Weatherhead, 4th K.O.S.B. Five of his nephews are in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and one in the Gordon Highlanders.
    11. Newspaper Article, 1919 Hawick Express - Friday 17 January 1919
      Hawick Express - Friday 17 January 1919
      William Harrower
      Boot and Shoemaker
      (Lately of Cross Wynd)
      Begs to announce that he has opened the Shop at 16 Bridge Street, with a Select Stock of Boots & Shoes, which he will sell at most Moderate Prices
      Repairing in all its Branches - Hand-sewn Work a Speciality.

    Historical events

    Birthday October 17, 1881

    • The temperature on October 17, 1881 was about 9.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
      • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
      • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
      • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
      • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
      • November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

    Day of marriage June 10, 1909

    • The temperature on June 10, 1909 was between 6.4 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
      • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
      • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
      • February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
      • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
      • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
      • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

    Day of death July 17, 1957

    • The temperature on July 17, 1957 was between 8.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
      • January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
      • March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
      • April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
      • May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
      • August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
      • November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
    

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