By Kay McMeekin
This is the family of John Anderson author of "the last mile hame."
His mother was Annie White (born 1874 in Pictou Nova Scotia) who was married to first Douglas Kennedy Anderson. When he died his brother John married her. The Andersons below ( apart from the first one her sister) are all her children.
The first Anderson to leave Cumnock for New Jersey was Elizabeth Anderson born 1870 and her husband John Pettigrew who was a mason in 1901.
They left on the Ethiopia in 1906. Their daughter was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1907. They lived in Long Island and they finally settled in Hempstead Nassau, New York. John was in the building trade. Elizabeth and 2 year old daughter Jeanie made a return trip to Cumnock in 1909 in 1914 and again in 1924.
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| 1924 passport photo |
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| Jeanie Pettigrew age 16 in 1924 passport photo |
Elizabeth's niece
Jeanie Anderson was next to emigrate but not until 1926. Her husband Peter Stewart gave uncle John Pettigrew as the person in the USA they were going to.
They sailed on the
California from Port Glasgow to New York. Their final destination was Roosevelt, Long Island. In the 1930 census he was working as a hod carrier in Madison New Jersey, Living with them were Jeanie Anderson's sister
Mary Connel Anderson and her husband Hugh Torbet. Mary and Hugh returned to Scotland in 1931.
The youngest sister Annie Anderson went out in 1928 aged 15 on the Cameron also going to sister Mrs Jeanie Stewart. She married Anthony Infinito in 1937.
Lastly in 1930 the oldest son
John Anderson ,the author of "the last mile hame" went out on the Transylvania. He too was going to sister Jeanie Stewart. He never married and was still living with the Stewarts in 1950 census in Madison. He returned to Cumnock for a visit about 1950 bringing football boots for his nephews Bobby and Ian Kelly, Madge's sons.
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| John Anderson |
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