TYRIE Story Mrgrt 1857

Margaret TYRIE, the daughter of William senior and Sarah (née JOHNSON) TYRIE, was born on 17 May 1857 at the humble address of 66 Daisy Bank, Pendleton, Lancashire. William, her father, died only three years later.

Margaret's paternal grandfather was Thomas TYRIE senior, a farmer in Clunie, Perthshire. In October 1817, Thomas married Margaret McLAGAN at Clunie where they lived and had ten children; the first seven were baptised at Clunie, the last three at Little Dunkeld, Perthshire.

Children:
1. Thomas TYRIE junior (1818-).
2. Margaret Angus TYRIE (1820-).
3. William TYRIE senior (1822-1860) married (1st) Margaret MEIKLE, (2nd) Sarah JOHNSON.
4. Janet TYRIE (1824-).
5. Jean TYRIE (1826-).
6. Elizabeth TYRIE (1828-).
7. Maria Pennycook TYRIE (1830-).
8. Ann TYRIE (1831-).
9. James TYRIE (1834-).
10. Helen TYRIE (1837-).

William TYRIE senior was baptised in Clunie on 13 July 1822 and by the age of nine, he and his family had moved to Little Dunkeld. In 1844, he was living at 135 Rose Street, Edinburgh and employed as a coachman. William senior married Margaret MEIKLE on 1 October 1844 at the parish church of St George, Edinburgh. Her father was James MEIKLE, a coachman of Largo House, Edinburgh.

William TYRIE senior and Margaret had one child:
1. Elizabeth TYRIE was baptised on 15 July 1845 at St Cuthberts, Edinburgh. On 14 November 1873 at the West Manse, Rutherglen in the county of Lanarkshire, Elizabeth, spinster and domestic servant of Bankhead House, Rutherglen married Robert HUTCHISON junior, a bachelor and a coal miner of 14 Spittal Row, Mill Street, Rutherglen. His father was Robert HUTCHISON senior, a coal miner, and his mother was Mary (née McGEE) HUTCHISON. Robert junior and Elizabeth (née TYRIE) HUTCHISON had three children. Robert junior moved to Lancashire and became a policeman in the Lancashire Constabulary. Fortunately, for his present day family, during this time he visited a photographer wearing his police uniform and from his clearly visible collar number, we were able to trace his career details.

William TYRIE senior left Scotland and migrated south to Manchester after the birth of his first child, Elizabeth in 1845. Margaret (née MEIKLE), his first wife, died before 1853 and widower, William TYRIE senior of 72 Market Street, Manchester married twenty-nine year old widow, Sarah (née JOHNSON) MARKLAND. Her father was Richard JOHNSON, a townsman. The ceremony took place at St Mary's, Manchester.

William TYRIE senior resumed his former occupation of a coachman and was possibly employed by John GREENWOOD, a local horse-bus or coach operator.

William senior and Sarah (née JOHNSON) TYRIE had four children:
1. William TYRIE junior (1855-) born at Pendleton and a scholar.
2. Margaret TYRIE (1857-1934) wife of Peter Foster TAYLOR and mother of Bessie TAYLOR.
3. Maria TYRIE (1859-) a laundress when living at 50 Brindle Heath Road, Pendleton and married David WROE of 1 Laundry Street in March 1891.
4. Thomas TYRIE (1860-) a groom and then a coachman like his father. In the early 1900s, Thomas sent out Compliments of the Season postcards embossed with his photograph. He is splendidly dressed in a smart coachman's outfit: mid-thigh length jacket with brass buttons, roll-top long leather boots and a pair of light-coloured breeches. The outfit is crowned with an elegant black silk top hat.

On 25 November 1860, at 66 Daisy Bank, Brindle Heath, William TYRIE senior, an omnibus driver, died at the age of thirty-eight years. He had spent most of his adult life exposed to all the rigours of the inclement weather while sitting in the driving seat. The cause of death given was not unexpected – chronic bronchitis.

A year later, his widow, Sarah (née JOHNSON) TYRIE had moved to 56 Brindle Heath Road, Pendleton and was supporting her young family by working as a laundress. Richard MARKLAND, her seventeen year old son from her first marriage, also helped with his earnings from his work at an iron foundry.

Margaret TYRIE, daughter of William senior and Sarah (née JOHNSON) TYRIE, grew up to become the wife of Peter Foster TAYLOR, who were the parents of Bessie.