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Related by County - Stirlingshire
Muiravonside
Deer Park Australia
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Matthew Ure
StokerBiography
Information supplied through a Research Project led by Nigel Crompton
Name Matthew URE
DoB 8th February 1880
Place of birth Muiravonside, Stirlingshire
Parents William & Helen (Forsyth)
Parental Home Middlerigg Cottage, Muiravonside – 797 Garscube Rd, Glasgow
Siblings James, John, William, Agnes, Isabella and Peter
Spouse Jane Bailey
Date of Wedding 5 February 1901
Location 310 Scotland Street, Glasgow
Children William, John, Matthew (Daughter Mabel died 1905 aged 10 months
from accidental scalding)
Marital home(s) 294, Balgray Road, 1915 showing at Hillhead Cottage, Bankend Road
Dumfries
Employment Stoker/ fireman
1911 Census Working at Crichton Institute – Crichton did have its own fire service and Matthew may have served in this organisation.
Date of death 27 July 1963 Location Deer Park, Victoria, Australia
Gretna details
Name Matthew URE Clock No
Date joining
Date leaving
Station
Addresses 1 F East
Rank on start
Promotion
Newspapers None located
Career after :Shown on emigration papers as fireman
Addresses after Gretna: 805 Garscube Road, Glasgow
Additional information
Sailed for Melbourne on 5 January 1929 on board RMS OTRANTO (Orient Line) along
with son, James and Jane his wife.
On Valuation Rolls – Matthew is shown as fireman rather than stoker which others are,
however the address is further away than most of the others, therefore this research will
need to continue
