John Moffat

1887 - 1960  (72 years)

• Name	John Moffat  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Born	16 June 1887	Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   [1]
  Occupation	1901	22 Victoria St., Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Office Boy at age 13
  Marriage License	11 December 1908	Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Occupation	Rivetter (journeyman)
  Residence	May 1912	4 Glebe St., Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   [1]
  Residence	September 1915	29 Bannerman St., Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland   [1]
  Residence	after 1915	14 Chalmers St., Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Tenement above Post Office.
  Died	23 April 1960	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Cancer
  Buried	after 23 April 1960	Old Dalnottar Cemetery, Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland   [1]
  Medical	1961	Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland   [1]
  	Cancer of the Lungs
  Person ID	I72376	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	25 February 2009

  
  

  Father	John Moffat,   b. 22 June 1859, Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. 21 September 1929, Ferryden, Craig, Forfarshire, Scotland  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Isabella Millar,   b. 29 May 1860, Errol, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 18 July 1926, Ferryden, Craig, Forfarshire, Scotland  (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F50588	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Jane Ann Smith,   b. 25 April 1877, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. 2 January 1937, Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland  (Age 59 years)
  Married	11 December 1908	Arkley St., Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland   [1]
  Children	1. Rita Moffat,   b. about 1909, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. about 1914  (Age ~ 5 years) + 2. John Moffat,   b. 3 May 1912, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. 9 May 1981, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England  (Age 69 years)   3. Isabella Millar Moffat,   b. about 1914, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland ,   d. 11 August 1935, Dunoon, Argyllshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 21 years)   4. Arthur Smith Moffat,   b. 26 September 1915, Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland ,   d. 1971, Clydebank, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland  (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F50585	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  At the tender aged of 14 John was supposed to have been thrown out of his father’s house because he was a socialist and in fact, the woman he married, Jemima Smith was also a socialist. She was about 11 years older than him. He and Jeanie Smith were married in the United Free Church in Dundee 11 December 1908. Both living at 41 Victoria Street, Dundee. His age was listed as 23 it was really 20 and Jeanie was listed as 26. If the records I have found are the right ones then she was 31!! and her name was really Jane Ann Smith. She is listed as Jane on Arthurs birth certificate but Jean and Jeanie on her marriage and death certificates. Their witnesses were Robert Moffat, John's brother and Annie Laurie (Larew). John worked at John Browns shipyard until his retirement. He told his daughter in law, Ivy, that he had only been kept in work by the unions and because he was a lefthanded riveter. I think he might have been pulling her leg with that last bit. He apparently had quite a dry if sometimes wicked sense of humour but was very well liked and respected. He and Arthur, his youngest son lived in one room in a tenement above the post office in Chalmers Street, Clydebank. It had a really large room but this was empty with bare floor boards. They slept in a double bed together, which was in an alcove, in this one room that also served as a kitchen and living room. The toilet was just about inside and it still had gas lighting as late as 1969. Arthur remained in the tenement until his own death in 1971. John's brother, Robert, emigrated to America. He was supposed to have returned to Glasgow for a short time whilst the dust settled after he was in a shoot out in a bar. Again this is family myth and is unlikely to be correct. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1567] GEDCOM file titled “Moffat Tree.paf.ged”, submitted by Rita Moffat. [S1594] Statutory Marriage Dundee St Andrews., Angus County.