"Jeanie" Jane Smith HALBERT / WATSON
Born 20 August 1889 in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland [28]
Daughter of coal miner Mathew Smith HALBERT and "Alice" Allison Marshall CAIRNS [28]
She was one of at least six children with older siblings Thomas and Janet and younger siblings Matthew, Allison and James [20]
In 1891 she was living with her parents and elder siblings at 71 Kirkwood Row in Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland [20]
Ten years later, in 1901, they were living with her grandmother Jane HALBERT on Beach Row in Old Monkland [20]
In 1912 she was working as a Domestic Servant and living at 21 Kirkwood Row in Bargeddie, Lanarkshire, Scotland [28]
Married Mathew Stirrat WATSON on 12 April 1912 at 102 Parson Street in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland [28]
Witnesses to their marriage were ironstone miner James KENNEDY and farm servant Alice Cairns HALBERT [28]
She and her husband resided on Donald MACPHERSON's Yarra Yarra Farm in Carnamah, Western Australia 1914-1919 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Maddington [2]
Died 28 June 1983; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (Crematorium Rose Gardens, M, 170) [2]
| Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Jane Smith Halbert / Watson' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 19 December 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/jane-smith-halbert [reference list] |
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