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Walter Reid SILVER

Walter Reid SILVER

Male 1892 - 1921  (28 years)


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  • Name Walter Reid SILVER 
    Birth 7 Oct 1892  Combination Poor House, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1901  160 Causeway Rd, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1911  160 Causeway Rd, Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 11 Jan 1921  Aberdeen Joint Station, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1921 deaths in the district of St Machar in the Burgh of Aberdeen. (Statutory Deaths 168/02 0031). No 31, Walter Reid Silver (formerly Reid), railway shunter (married to Maggie Jane Mearns), 1921 January 11th about 3.20pm about 200 yards south of No.3 Platform of Joint Railway Station, Aberdeen (usual res: 108 Rosemouint Viaduct, Aberdeen), male, 28 years, son of Isabella Reid (afterward married to James Silver, gasworks labourer, deceased. Cause: Driven over by a railway locomotive. Instantaneous death not certified. Informant: Maggie Jane Silver, widow, 108 Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen.
    • Aberdeen Press and Journal 13 January 1921, p.1:
      SILVER.-Accidentally killed at Joint Station, Aberdeen, on the 11th inst., Walter R. Silver, beloved husband of Maggie Jane Mearns, aged 28 years. Funeral from his father's house, 93 Skene Street, on Friday, 14th inst. at 2 p.m., to Trinity Cemetery.
    Notes 
    • Aberdeen Journal 12 January 1921, page 4:
      Shunter killed by train. Driver of engine dies of shock.
      A distressing double tragedy occurred on the railway at Aberdeen yesterday. A shunter was killed just outside the Joint Station by a Deeside train which knocked
      him down and ran over him, and the driver of the train died a few minutes later from shock and heart failure.
      The 3.20 train from Ballater had started, and was about 100 yards from the station platform, when Walter R.Silver, a shunter, 28 years of age, residing at 108
      Rosemount Viaduct and recently married, apparently failed to notice the approach of the train, stopped in front of the engine, and was knocked down and dragged along the ground for some distance between the rails.
      The train was immediately brought to a standstill, and when Silver was lifted from the rails he was found to be dead.
      The train then proceeded on its journey, and on the way to Holburn Street Station the driver, James Willox, and elderly man, who resided at Braemar Road, Ballater,
      said to the fireman, "I am feeling very queer." The train was stopped at Holburn Street Station, but before reaching there Willox collapsed on the footplate. He was
      assisted into the waiting room by the fireman and guard, but he succumbed in a few minutes, and when medical aid arrived life was pronounced extinct. The body was
      removed to the house of a son-in-law. Police Constable Jaffrey, 38 Erskine Street. Mr Willox was 64 years of age, and was one of the most experienced drivers in the
      G.N.S.R. service. He was well-known and held in warm esteem in Ballater. Mr John Wilox, locomotive superintendent at Kittybrewster, and Mr S.R.Willox, goods superintendent, are brothers of the deceased.
    • Walter was Isabella's base child as his marriage cert shows that she was his mother and thereafter married James Silver. It is still possible, of course, that James was the child's father.
    Person ID I5395  Warren Nunn's family tree
    Last Modified 18 Sep 2020 

    Family Maggie Jane MEARNS,   b. 23 Jul 1900, 29 North St, Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1942, Milton of Hill Cottages, Gartly, Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage 15 Oct 1920  Trinity Parish Church, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1920 marriages in the district of St Nicholas in the burgh of Aberdeen.
      No 878, 1920 15 Oct at Trinity Parish Church, Aberdeen. Walter Reid SILVER (formerly Reid), railwayman (bachelor), aged 28, of 93 Skene St, Aberdeen, son of Isabella Reid (afterwards wife of James Silver, labourer, deceased) AND Maggie Jane MEARNS, domestic servant (spinster), aged 20, of 34 Carlton Place, Aberdeen, daughter of George Mearns and Isabella Meanrs M.S.Watson.
      Wintesses: Wm Tosh, Isabella Mearns.
    Children 
     1. Margaret Isabella SILVER,   b. 22 Feb 1921, Rhynie, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1995, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F436  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2025 


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