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Born: 23 December 1903
Married: 12 September 1924
Widowed; 1929
Married: 22 October 1937
Widowed: 31 May 1943
Died: 31 July 1987
1903 Birth: Born at 6.10am on 23 December 1903 at 27 Gordon Street Aberdeen
Source: National Records of Scotland -Statutory Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
1911 At census on 2 April 1911 Jane age 7 is at 11 Stevenson Street with her father Robert, her mother Helen and brothers Robert 10,David 5 Andrew 4 and George 8 months.
Source: National Records of Scotland – 1911 Census of Scotland
1915 The Christie family lived at 63 Orchard Street, Aberdeen
Source: National Records of Scotland - Valuation Rolls 1915
1920 The Christie family lived at 63 Orchard Street, Aberdeen
Source: National Records of Scotland - Valuation Rolls 1920
1924 On 12 September 1924 at 10 North Silver Street Aberdeen,Jane Anderson Christie married John Jonstone Milne, minister the Rev Scudamore Forbes of the West Church, Aberdeen.
Source: National Records of Scotland -Statutory Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
1925 Birth of daughter Helen Anderson Milne known in family as Ella
Source: National Records of Scotland -Statutory Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
1928 Birth of daughter, Barbara Sutherland Milne known in family as Barry
Source: National Records of Scotland -Statutory Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
1929 Death of husband John Jonston Milne a trawl fisherman who was lost at sea
1930 On 6 April 1930 Jane and elder daughter Helen went on an extended visit to the USA sailing to New York on the Tuscania from Glasgow. During their time in the USA they visited her brothers Robert and David and their wives Elizabeth and Barbara. They returned to Scotland later that year.
Sources: Family information and New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957
1937 On 22 October 1937 at the West Church of St Nicholas, Aberdeen,Jane married George Brander, the minister the Rev. P C Millar
Source: National Records of Scotland -Statutory Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
From 1937 to 1939 they lived at 63 Orchard Street ,Aberdeen before moving to 21 Short Loanings, Rosemount, Aberdeen.
1938 Birth of son, George
1941 Birth of daughter Isabella Cormack known in family as Isabel
1943 Informed by postcard and letter dated July 1943 that husband George had been prisoner of war of the Japanese since February 1942. No further official news until December 1945 when informed by letter that George had died on 31 December 1943 on the Burma - Thailand railway. This was 5 months after the surrender of Japan.
1943 Death of husband George
1953 Marriage of daughter Barry
1956 Marriage of daughter Ella
1962 Marriage of son George
1968 Marriage of daughter Isabel
1987 Death: Jane known to all as Jean died on 31 July 1987 at Bucksburn Aberdeen at the home of her eldest daughter Ella and her husband Leonard.
Jane Anderson Christie lived through two World Wars and the Depression, was widowed twice with very young family, first in 1929 with Ella age 5 and Barry age 1, then again in 1943 with Ella, Barry and George age 5 and Isabel age 2.
Sources are noted under each fact or event in italics
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