Peter McKechnie

Children	1889/90	Jane Lydia	b. Silvertown, West Ham[4]
.	1891	Jessie Wilson	b. Greenock[4]; d. 1966[8]
.	1894/5	Richard Peter	b. Silvertown, West Ham[4]; d. 1967[8]
.	1895/6	Selina Mary	b. Tidal Basin, West Ham[4]; d. 1977[8]
.	1897/8	Agnes Isabel	b. Canning Town, West Ham[4]
.	1901	Archibald George	b. Tidal Basin, West Ham[4]; d. 1962[8]
.	.	Gertrude Beatrice	b. Newcastle on Tyne; d. abt 1970[8]
.	.	Hector McDonald	b. Newcastle on Tyne[8]
.	.	Martha Alexandra	b. Newcastle on Tyne; d. 6.6.1966[8]

Peter was born in Greenock in 1865 to Peter and Jane McKechnie. In 1871 he was living at 12 West Blackhall Street, Greenock with his parents and siblings[1]. At the age of 16 (in 1881) he was described as a boilermaker, and was living with his sister Agnes and her family[2]. In 1889 he married Martha Wilson, from Alton in Staffordshire, and in 1890 they were living at Silvertown, West Ham, London where their first child Jane was born[4]. By 1891 they (or at least Martha) had returned to Greenock where their second daughter was born, and by 1895 were back at West Ham[4]. In 1901 they were living at Tidal Basin, West Ham, with by then six children[4].

Sources: Census [1]1871, [2]1881, [3]1891, [4]1901; [8]memories of his children & grandchildren


.	Peter in his middle years[8].	Peter aged 66, August 1931[8].