Our 3-times-great grandmother, Betsy Whittet (nee Kemp), recently widowed, moved from
Abernyte to Dundee and found work as a lodging home helper. In 1861 Betsy, now aged 34 and
with 2 sons, married Alexander Gibb a 26 year old joiner.
Her eldest son William Whittet, whom we are decended from, found work as a gas works
stoker and married Agnes Wilkie, a domestic servant from Arbirlot (near Arbroath), on
2nd July 1869. William was 26 and Agnes 32 at the time of their wedding. The records
suggest that Agnes may have lied about her age and she was actually 34. William and Agnes
are our great, great grandparents.
William and Agnes had 3 children, William,
Matthew and Jessie. We are decended from the eldest son William, an iron moulder, who
married Jessie Sivewright, a domestic servant, in 1896. Their children were Jane, Jessie,
William, George, Helen, Elizabeth and Matthew. We are decended from George who married
Georgina Gavine in 1926 and had an only son, William, born in 1927. George died in 1930
and Georgina had another son Frederick.