William Alexander Muir 1899-1980
William Muir was born West Quarter, Glassford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland 30/9/1899 to parents Alexander Muir, marine engineer, & Ellen [baptised Helen] Houston . Glassford is ~25 miles SE of Glasgow. Glassford is where Helen Houston's parents, Alexander & Agnes Houston,were living in 1901C & in 1911C, actually in Alston Street which is in the centre. . . Graham and Anne visited Glassford in 2012: it is just a hamlet and West Quarter was another hamlet just outside it
He was the third and last child, the earlier two, Ruby May Muir & Robert Home Muir having been born in Tardeo, Bombay, India.
1901C.William A Muir 1, is living at 75 Ashborn Road Toxteth Park Liverpool. with his parents and 2 elder siblings Possibly temporary accommodation awaiting return to India.
No shipping record found for the family returning to Bombay, where his father had worked around 1897 & 8.
The family then lived in Bombay where his father, Alexander Muir, is thought to have managed a jute mill business
Alexander, Robert Home, Ruby May, William & Helen ~1901
The family returned to UK after death of Alexander Muir in 1907 - maybe as late as 1910. By this time his mother had remarried an accountant, Harold Elliott, in Bombay, 1909.
Ruby May, Robert Home & William ~1909
1911C. FMP.William and his elder brother are at school in Crouch End: Robert 13 and William 11 at Oatfield School, Haslemere Road, Crouch End, Hornsey. No place of birth given. 9 pupils in total aged 8-16 but Robert is the 2nd oldest. Sister, Ruby Muir, 14 is at Crouch End High School and College for Ladies, her birthplace given as Bombay India. Address: 4-6 Fairfield Road, Hornsey . Only 6 girls aged 14-16, plus 4 others, 18-20 who were students for London Degree . Have not located the remarried mother, Helen Elliott. Why did their mother choose these 2 schools for them? - did she have a relation close by who could take care of them in the holidays?? Did any of her sisters, once married, live in London??
William Muir, seated middle row right, in a football team, likely at Oatfielld School, Crouch End, ~1912?
It is thought he left school by about 1913 and returned to Renfrew, training as an engineer there.
~1917-1918. He joined the Highland Light Infantry, probably in 1917, but was never posted abroad
A sports medal received by William : 3rd H.L.I. Inter Coy Challenge Cup 1919 winner "A" Coy W.Muir. It has a silver mark at bottom. On the reverse side a football scene.
1929. William Muir 29, engineer [oil fuel] marries Roberta McKendrick 21, on 29/3/1929 in Hammersmith Register Office. by license... Both addresses given as 48 Stamford Brook Road, Hammersmith . His father Alexander Muir, marine engineer, deceased: hers Robert Garvie McKendrick, master butcher. Witnesses were Robt Muir, his brother,- though this might read Ruth Muir?? - and E. Elliott, his mother. Who could a Ruth Muir be?- could sister Ruby have signed herself Ruth??
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William , cerca 1930? . . . . . . William & Roberta, cerca 1950
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. . . . . . . . William & Roberta, cerca 1955 . . Roberta, William & Helen Elliott, his mother-in-law, cerca 1959 at 112 Mansell Road, Greenford
They have 2 children: Graham Muir 1934 and Jean Muir 1935, Graham born Southall, Mddx. Photos of the children with parents William & Roberta here.
1939 Register. 112, Mansell Road , Ealing . Plus 2 officially closed records: Graham & Jean
| William | Muir | 30 Sep 1899 | Male | Millwright (Heavy Worker) | Married | 196 | 1 | |
| Roberta G | Muir | 16 Nov 1907 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Married |
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Robert Muir 1897 left with brother William & Roberta. . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Group photos taken at 112 Mansell Road Greenford- 1959?:
Top. Back row: William & daut.in law Anne, front row: Granny Helen Elliott, Roberta & small Auntie Bessie ( Elizabeth, nee McLellan 1884, at sometime married a Blackburn) Roberta's aunt, sister to Annie Mckendrick, nee McLellan
Lower. Back row William & Graham , front row: Roberta, Granny Elliot with Bessie in front of her.
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Anne Gosling, William, Roberta & Graham at a "Burn's Nicht" supper 25th Jan 1960?. William was the president of the Greenford & District Caledonian Society. . . . . . .& being piped in!
This medal of William's has the following inscription: 3rd H.L.I. Inter Coy Challenge Cup 1919 winner "A" Coy W.Muir. It has a silver mark at bottom. On the reverse side a football scene.
William & sister Ruby cerca 1970
Graham gives details of his life in London. He and Roberta moved back to Renfrew around 1972 so that she could be near her sisters, Nancy & Jean
1980. William Muir dies 21/5/1980, aged 80, of Myocardial Degeneration, & also having chronic bronchitis & emphysemia, at 18 Findhorn Avenue, Renfrew. The informant was R. Muir, widow.
His wife, Roberta, was already suffering from dementia/Alzeimers at the time of his death
1982. His widow Roberta died 2 years later.