Walter Currie
Walter Currie (? - 1954) was a Canadian-American who lived at the turn of the 20th century.
After marrying, he emigrated to Worcester, Massachussetts.
Walter Currie 1838
In the Scottish census of 1851, a 13-year-old Walter Currie appears with his 5-year-old brother John Currie as living in a house headed by a 38-year-old Christina Currie. That would put him as born in 1838.
Walter Currie 1883
He was born to John Currie and Mary Riddell in Scotland in 1883. Later that same year, with his parents and two siblings, John and Christena, he emigrated from Scotland to Alamonte, Ontario.
Walter Currie (21 August 1868 - 1954)
On 3 Feb 1893 a Walter Currie appears in the Alamonte Gazette treasurer of the masonic lodge #79. He was 24 at the time.
At age 25, on 27 September 1893 he married 23-year-old Louisa Ward, who was born in England in 1869 or 1870 to parents Heneretta Berry and John Ward.
According to the Canadian census of 1901 he was still living in Almonte, with a religion of Presbyterian, and his occupation as Warper Wheit.
He emigrated to America in 1905 with his wife and children.
By the time of the 1910 census his 81-year-old father-in-law was living with them, and listed as blind and deaf/dumb.
He's listed in the 1920 American census as immigrating in 1905, with his family. At this point his occupation is listed as Dressentinder, in the Woolen Mill industry, with a rented home, he had just moved into in 1920, on Colton Street, in Worcester Ward 5, Worcester, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN:
- Henriette (1895)
- Mary (1898)
- Ethel (1902)
- Grace (1908)
- Gene (1910) (daughter on census)
- Ruth (1912)
He appears in the Canadian census in 1901, and the American censuses of 1910, 1920, and 1930.
He married
He died there in 1954.
Confusion
There is ANOTHER Walter Currie, who appears to be his uncle, who appears in the record. It's not clear if this is a different person.
Death
He died there in 1954.
Sources
Alamonte Gazette, 3 Feb 1893, Page 1 [1]
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Deaths [1916–1970]. Volumes 66–145. Facsimile edition. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928
Year: 1920; Census Place: Worcester Ward 5, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_750; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 263 Source: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).