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William SILVER

William SILVER

Male 1880 - 1942  (61 years)


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  • Name William SILVER 
    Birth 5 Jun 1880  13 Craigie St, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1770 births in the district of St Nicholas in the burgh of Aberdeen. No 934, William Silver, 1880 June 5 at 4am at 13 Craigie St, Aberdeen, male, son of Adam Silver grocer assistant and Penelope Douglas Silver M.S.Scott who married 1879 Sep 12th at Aberdeen.
    Gender Male 
    Census 1901  23 Richmond Terrace, Rosemount, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1911  28 Wallfield Place, Rubislaw, Rosemount, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1911 census for Wallfield Place, Rubislaw, Rosemount, Aberdeen:
      William Silver, head, aged 30, commercial traveller, stationer, born Aberdeen
      Jeannie Silver, wife, aged 32*, married one year, one child, born LogieBuchan, Aberdeen
      Douglas Silver, son, five months, born Aberdeen
      *Gave age as 29 on wedding cert 18 months earlier.
    Occupation Stationer 
    Death 10 Jan 1942  270 Victoria Rd, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1942 deaths in the Eastern District of Aberdeen in the burgh of Aberdeen. No 17, William Silver, commercial traveller, married to Jane Fraser Tosh, 1942, Jan 10th at 1.20am at 270 Victoria Rd, Aberdeen, male, 61 years, son of Adam Silver, grocer (deceased) and Penelope Douglas Silver M.S. Scott (deceased), cause, Angina Pectoria, witness, A.Silver, brother, of 63 Mile End Ave, Aberdeen.

      Aberdeen Journal 12 January 1942, page 4:
      SILVER.-Suddenly, at 270 Victoria Road, on 10th January, 1942, William Silver (of Messrs Lewis Smith and Son), beloved husband of Jane Fraser. Funeral (private) to Springbank Cemetery. No flowers.
    Notes 
    • Aberdeen Weekly Journal 22 January 1942, page 5:
      MR WILLIAM SILVER. - Mr William Silver, who has died at his residence, 270 Victoria Road, Aberdeen, was one of the best known commercial travellers in the North of Scotland. He was sixty-one years of age and spent the whole of his business life with Messrs. Lewis Smith and Son. Ltd., for whom he was representative for fully forty years. He was particularly well known in Aberdeen and in Orkney and Shetland.
      He was a man of many interests. He was a past president of the Aberdeen branch of the United Commercial Travellers' Association, he was a member of the St Machar Lodge of Freemasons, and was an elder of the East Church of St Nicholas. He was keenly interested in golf, football and cricket, and was a member of the Balnagask Golf Club.
      Mr Silver is survived by Mrs Silver and by a son, who is serving with the Forces in Africa, and two daughters.
    Person ID I7657  Warren Nunn's family tree
    Last Modified 6 Jan 2016 

    Father Adam SILVER,   b. 7 Dec 1853, Brucklaywaird, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jul 1916, Corporation Lodging House, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Penelope Douglas SCOTT,   b. 15 Feb 1854, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1923, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 12 Sep 1879  7 Craigie St, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage cert No 168/010298. Witnesses: George Scott, Alexander Silver*
      *Younger brother
    Family ID F2544  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane Fraser TOSH,   b. Abt 1879, Logie Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1955, Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 6 Sep 1909  St Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1909 marriages in the district of St Nicholas in the burgh of Aberdeen. No 496, 1909 Sixth September, Carlton Rooms, Union St, Aberdeen after banns according to the forms of the Establish Church of Scotland. William Silver, commerical traveller, bachelor, aged 29, of 28 Thomson St, Aberdeen, son of Adam Silver (grocer master) and Penelope Douglas Silver M.S.Scott and Jane Fraser Tosh, dressmaker, spinster, aged 29* years, of ? Square, Aberdeen, dau of Christina Tosh, housekeeper. Witnesses: George Scott Silver and Hannah Silver.
      *On 1911 census, gives age as 32

      Aberdeen Journal 8 September 1909, page 4:
      SILVER-FRASER*. - At the Carlton, Aberdeen, on the 6th inst. by the Rev Thomas Wilson, B.D., William Silver, to Jeanie Fraser, grand-daughter of the late James Tosh, Tarty, Logie-Buchan.
      *Note the difference in surnames Fraser and Tosh. She must have been base child of Christina Tosh.
    Children 
     1. Douglas SILVER,   b. 18 Oct 1910, 28 Wallfield Place, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1992, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Family ID F51  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2025 


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