Thomas McKENZIE

[missbee]

Hi ros and judith!
Thanks for your replies, lots to think about!
I was obviously looking in totally the wrong places!

The 1970 death looks very promising. His mother was Mary Paterson Munro, and the age is correct.

I have no knowledge of the nieces and nephews, but I haven't researched her family, and was only tracking him in Australia while following up on a family rumour!

As for occupations, he had been an apprentice printer, a music hall artiste, and a storeman!. She was a cook at the time of their wedding.



Belinda

[missbee]

And his birthday was 28th May!
Looks like you found him for me!
Thanks!

[londonjones]

Hi,

I was fascinated to find this string re. Thomas McKenzie following his 1919 marriage as I've been trying to discover what happened to him after that for many years.  I believe he was in the army from approx. 1915 to 1919.  Does this match with the information you have about him prior to his 1919 marriage?

Simon

[missbee]

Hi!
Sorry for the late response, I somehow missed your post!
I don't have anything that I'm sure about on Thomas McKenzie between the 1901 census and his marriage in 1919. I have his passenger record for the journey to Melbourne, Australia on the Largs Bay on 10th May 1927, with Elizabeth. I am sure that it is his death record from Australia. On the record it states:
He was 85 years old at his death in 1970.
He was born in Ross, Scotland, to John McKenzie, Shoemaker, and Mary McKenzie(nee Munro).
He married Elizabeth Hall at the age of 28 in Glasgow, Scotland.
It also states that he was a widower at the time of his death, had no children, and had lived for 45 years in Victoria, Australia.
Have you found him in the 1911 Census?
Did you find his Military records?

Belinda

[londonjones]

Hi,

Not a problem!  Thanks for getting back to me.
I haven't found him on the 1911 census, but I was able to locate his military record, which was the "missing link" that showed he was the same Thomas McKenzie who was my great-grandfather.  We had always known that his "marriage" to my great-grandmother in 1913 was not a legally valid one and that he had not in fact been killed in the First World War as she claimed, but had survived.  I had long suspected that he had gone on to marry Elizabeth Hall in 1919, but the military record provides the confirmation because it gives his address on demobilisation as the McLelland Street, Glasgow address that is listed on his marriage certificate to Elizabeth.  His address on enlistment was the address in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at which my grandmother was born in 1915.  His military record also refers to my grandmother as his daughter.  On her birth certificate he is shown as the father and his occupation is given as "Music Hall Artiste".  We will never know why his relationship with my great-grandmother came to an end or why he played no further part in my grandmother's life, but it was very interesting to find out what happened to him later, especially since I emigrated to Australia myself in 2005 and know Melbourne well!
How are you related to him?  Are you descended from one of his siblings?

Simon

[missbee]

My Great Grandfather was Alexander McKenzie, Thomas' brother. ( Or at least Alexander raised my Grandmother as his own, we're still debating a few legitimacy issues! - he's not named as the father on her birth certificate, although her 1st name was Alexandra and middle name McKenzie, and he never married or lived with her mother, he was married to someone else at the time. Nothing straight forward!)
Thomas' last address in Australia was in Huntingdale road, south oakleigh, maybe you know it?
I only knew he went to Australia after following up on a family story that "uncle" Thomas went to Australia and was never seen again!
Belinda