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Hi John This is interesting, that's our man. So he returned to Scotland at this point for a while. Where did this come from?Do you have any more information on that? According the The Orient newspaper it appears that he was not preaching in Constantinople between July 1920- November 1920. He was also in the US in Jan 1921. Do these dates match with him being in Kilmarnock?
JCAll these Robert Frews
In 1920 there is a Robert Frew (Scotch)aged 52 occupation Clergman,travelling to Constantinople, Turkey. He had been staying with a Mary McKee at 15 Barbadses Road, Kilmarnock. His age is bang on for 1868 birth.
John
According to Albert's probate his first wife was born in Chirstchurch and the painting was intended for Christchurch NZ on the death of his second wife.The link posted in reply #5 is about a painting bequeathed to a gallery in Christchurch, NZ. Here I summarize the salient facts that are given there.
Kathleen Muriel Kay (1904-1949) was born in Wellington NZ, parents Rev Thomas Kay and Fanny Buckley (married 1902)
Family moved to London in ~1906
Kathleen married George F Gee (1st cousin) in 1936 in Peshawar, later divorced.
Kathleen married AAW in London in 1947.
Kathleen died, Windsor 2 years later.
AAW remarried, and died in 1988.
His intention that the painting should be given to Christchurch in memory of Kathleen was honoured following the death of his second wife in 2012.
Just a thought but - was it the wrong Christchurch? – RJD was born in Wellington NZ ie. on the North Island, Christchurch is on the South Island. Her family moved to London when she was 2 years old. What connection could she have to Christchurch?
RF does have a reference to working (1925-27) at Christ Church in Mayfair! -
Do we know the church where Kathleen married AAW in 1947?
JC
i love the comment about not leaving anything else to his wife at her request .
ada ella WHITELY s will simply bequethed everything to Albert Adair WHITELEY
She's listed as widow
* Calling him her son .not adopted son !
it is witnessed by Robert Frew
i wonder if he was actually her birth son
Robert FREW considers him his adopted son but acknowledges that there was no official adoption.
Following on from the last reply, there is a second page associated with that immigration record in 1920. It says that he was previously in the USA in 1900, which fits with the New York–London record from 1900 noted earlier. It also says that he plans to stay for 2 months, that his destination address is W.S.L., Broadway, NY and that his place of birth is Glasgow, Scotland.
