David Mackie Age 39 m. Oct. 22, 1911 Age 35 _Margaret Ann Cameron
b. Mar/27/1872 b. Feb/3/1877
d. Mar/16/1947 d. Nov/28/1963
Four Children
Charles George Mackie David Allan Mackie Mae Margaret Mackie Edward Watt Mackie
b. Dec/31/1912 b. Nov/25/1914 b.Jan/27/1948 b. June/5/1920
d. July/4/1970 d. Feb/9/2002 d. d. Dec/21/2000
m. Sept/28/1943 m. July/16/1924 m. No m. N
Charles George Mackie m. 28/9/1943 Ruth Carol Bauerfield
b. Dec/31/1912 b. May/30/1912
d. July/4/1970 d. April/4/1967
Two Children
Diana Mackie____________Joan Mackie
b. Sept/29/1946 b. Mar/28/1950
d. d.
m. July/20/1968 m. Sept/2/1978
Divorced Dec/30/1940 David Rice Divorced Nov/2005 William Cowan
David Allan Mackie m. Nov/27/1948 Dorothy Alice Crosby
b. Nov/25/1914 b. July/16/1924
d. Feb/9/2002 d.
Two Children
Dorothy Ann Mackie Dawn Arline Mackie
b. Oct/3/1953 b. April/12/1955
d. d.
m. Aug/21/1976 m. Oct/ 3/1981
William Pearson div Mar/17/1981 Richard Kruke
2nd m. Aug/25/1984
Kevin Roach
Margaret Ann Cameron History
Margaret Ann Cameron married David Mackie in 1911. David Mackie was a friend and neighbor of William Cameron. They came together to the United States in 1897. David first went to Canada to visit his Uncle George Watt who was working for the Michigan Central Railroad and on which David Mackie also got a job. David was next working on a railroad in St. Thomas until 1999 but left in 1901 when he went to Buffalo for William Cameron's wedding after which he went back to Scotland. In early 1904 William, Catherine and 11 months old baby Allan went over to Scotland on the Campania for a visit. When they returned home they were accompanied by Margaret Ann Cameron, William's sister and David Mackie.
Margaret Ann Cameron
The Cameron girls were all handsome, and Margaret was a picture perfect Gibson girl as her photo at about age 20 shows. Margaret Ann Cameron was born February 3, 1877 at 3 pm at Woodside Farm in Charleston section of Nigg. She was the 3rd daughter and 6th child of James Cameron and Margaret Allan. The family was resident at Woodside farm for 2 generations, since 1839. By the time of Margaret's birth, her uncles and aunts have immigrated to the British empire, e.g. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In the 1881 census, the family is not yet complete and her parents were also raising a nephew. But the James Cameron family had a big farm of 160 acres and needed the help of everyone.
Margaret began her schooling at Cove School which was on her street towards the Bay. She graduated at 14 from this school. In 1891 Margaret has left Woodside to continue schooling in a central Aberdeen location of St Nicholas, boarding with widow Mary Hepburn and others. Mrs. Hepburn was employed at a cork manufacturing company.
Ten years later Margaret is a domestic servant, age 24 working at a location in Fountainhall St. The family is a professional one with the head serving on the School Board and his children are teacher, solicitor, and architect.
At this point Maggie had relatives overseas in Australia and the US. William Cameron in Chicago gets a letter from Maggie asking him to bring her to America. William is very happy to hear this and immediately books passage. In fact he and his bride and new baby are going to Aberdeen in 1904, and they all return together from Liverpool on the Campania in September. Maggie initially must stay with William Cameron on Court St. The bedroom is small so William rigs up a curtain dividing the room for them. Fairly soon afterwards, we can surmise, Maggie found a domestic service situation with live-in requirements. Her first situation was around Drexel Boulevard, on the South Side. She went to the 3rd UP (Upper Presbyterian) Church We don't know more about this phase of life before she became engaged to David. She did have gentleman admirers. One young man invited her to meet his mother in Marquette, Michigan but this turned out badly when the mother imperiously said she was not good enough for her son. And then, there is that intriguing postcard of Maggie looking like the Gibson girl, addressed to John Adair of Adair & Co. in Edinburgh, Scotland with a breezy comment "I have spending my vacation in Michigan had this taken while I was out sailing does it look like me Margarit." But jt was never sent.
So one concludes that she decided that David Mackie would be a good provider well respected by her brother and so she accepted his proposal in 1911, about 7 years after she came to Chicago. She was eager to start a family, and 14 months after the wedding, her son Charles arrived. Four children came over 8 years. After their marriage in 1911 the Mackies moved to a home on West End Ave near Cicero Ave. only 7 blocks from William's home. Mother Cameron, Jean and Robert would often walk and meet the Mackies at a movie theater on Cicero Ave Her church was Trinity Presbyterian on Laramie. When all the children were ready for Sunday school, all 5 walked to church each Sunday. She was active in the Women's group. They made quilts and items for the Presbyterian Hospital. She belonged to the North End Women's club through Mrs. (Harry) Kindness, whom she meets on the Campania. Later she joined the PEO.
Domestic life meant a day for washing, one for ironing, one for baking etc. She did shirts for 3 boys and her husband. She sewed clothes, especially for her daughter who remembers a yellow one with puffed sleeves and embroidered circles.
Her brother was head of the St Andrews Society for a couple of years. Once a year there was an elegant ball. She had a beautiful light green dress for one of the events. Later she traveled. In 1935 she and Mae took a long circle trip by train out West: N and S Dakota, Denver, Montana, California and Texas. She never returned to Scotland, but her Chicago home welcomed siblings and other relatives. Margaret still had 4 children living at home after they all graduated from Austin High School. All were employed. Charlie worked at Cameron Can Machinery Co. Then he went to Lewis Institute (later Illinois Institute of Technology) and joined another company where he was very successful. David studied accounting and worked for an accounting firm. Mae went to Business College and worked for a law firm and later to Sunbeam, and then Goodrich Electric and finally to Cornet Films (part of Esquire publishing firm). Edward graduated from YMCA and worked until the World War 2 began. Suddenly from a house full of people, the Mackies were by themselves with Mae. Margaret Cameron Mackie continued on at 4730 West End Avenue after her husband died in 1947. She became a grandmother 4 times. She died of arteriosclerosis on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1963. She is buried in Forest Home cemetery in Forest Park.
David Mackie
David Mackie was born March 27, 1872, 8.15 am. He was the second to last child of Joseph Mackie and Jane Watt and the fourth son. He was born at Auchmill House in the parish of Newhills in the county of Aberdeen. There was a quarry next to Auchmill House.
Newshills is northwest of Aberdeen city, and today the quarry is disused and the land is a community woodland and a golf course. The airport is nearby. Joseph Mackie was an experienced quarry worker so had been given a post and a house for his family. Auchmill House was the main house; the house for the Mackies was on the grounds. Of the 9 children, David was the only one born in Newhills; the rest were born in Kincardinshire, the county south of Aberdeen. Joseph Mackie moved around; almost every birth was in a different parish and farm.
In the 1881 census, the family was in Coldseas, south of Cove Bay. The older 5 children had left (including Joseph [jr] who had died in a fishing accident). David was the oldest boy at home, age 9, among 4 children He was a scholar and was registered at Kirkhill school, about 2 miles north. This school was by the parish church. David was registered there by his father Joseph in April 28, 1884. He was 12. This was his secondary school. His primary school was St. Mary's, an Episcophal school, in Cove. While at this school, he passed several standards, the highest was the VIth on February 6, 1888. No other children from his family were at this school. After passing this standard, he left school on February 7, 1888, age almost 16.
In 1891 the family had 3 children and 3 grandchildren living with Joseph and Jean in Nigg in a house at the quarry head, Whitehead. This quarry was close to the farms of Woodside on Cove Bay road in an area also called Charleston. At 19, David was an engine cleaner for the NBRC (Northern British Rail Company) A few years later in 1897, he along with 3 local men immigrated to the US from Liverpool on the ship Campania, arriving May 15. One of the men was William Cameron, later his workmate and brother-in-law. For his first immigration, he landed on Ellis island, and then onward to St. Thomas, Ontario. His uncle George Watt, brother to Jane Watt, was established in St Thomas, and working for the railroads. Three lines converged in St Thomas so it was a busy cross roads. He worked for a rail road and stayed several years. Then he returned to Aberdeen. What David did and where he lived is unknown. He has not been found on the 1900 or 1901 US or UK census.
The George Watt family continued to be important to the Mackies. They visited there during the summer and a special party was held for George Watt when he turned 85 in 1931.
In 1904, he returned to the US. He is on the Campania again and traveling with William and Katherine Cameron, and their first-born son Allan, and William's sister, Margaret Ann Cameron, ultimately the wife of David. They arrived September 8, 1904. All were headed to Chicago where William Cameron was working for Torris Wold, a tool and die making company. Torris Wold was changed in a few years to Cameron Can Machinery Co. as William took control of the company. Here David was hired as a machinist. In the 1910 David was living in a rooming house, about 200 W Monroe (?) between Dearborn and Clark. He is now working at Cameron Can Machinery Co. moved to a new plant on Ashland Ave. David is now Superintendent of the factory.
Nothing is known about the courtship of David Mackie and Maggie Cameron. However, their families lived near each other in Charleston. The Camerons had been long time farmers at Woodside, in Charleston area of Nigg. The Mackies were nearby, across the road at the Quarry. Both families were members of the Nigg Church of Scotland.
Both came in 1904 and each had their own life until probably about 1910 or so. Somehow their courtship began. They had agreed to own a house first. The two-flat at 4730 West End Avenue was nearly finished in 1911 when David told Maggie that he needed to put her name on the deed. They had to be married in order to do so. So hastily they arranged to be married on October 21 in the living room of William Cameron's house on St Clair St.
Maggie had been working as a domestic servant or house keeper in the Oak Park area. Female live-in help was not allowed to be married so Maggie hadn't told her employers that she was getting married. Thus after the wedding, Maggie returned to her Oak Park residence to give notice and in a few days joined David in their new home. The family lived in the smaller first level flat so as to maximize the rent from the larger, 3 bedroom flat upstairs.
Their first child was Charles George, born December 31, 1912. Margaret didn't want to have a child born in 1913, for superstitious reasons. So she told the doctor to make sure the baby came in 1912. She managed to birth Charles at 11:55 pm, just in time, at St Elizabeth hospital, on 1431 Claremont Ave. He was named after his uncle George Watt. Why Charles, is a mystery. (The other 3 children were born at home.) His second son was named David Allan, after himself and his mother-in-law maiden name. His daughter was named Mae Margaret after his aunt and his wife. The last son was Edward Watt, named after the Prince of Wales and his mother's maiden name. Margaret took all 4 children to see the Prince of Wales when he came to Chicago in the 1920s. From this home, David went to the Cameron Can Co. each day on Ashland Ave. Besides supervising the factory, David went to first time customers who were installing the new machinery. David had a quality control responsibility to make sure the cans were properly produced. He went to Virginia, West Viergina and other places out East. His typical day started at 4:30 am for breakfast as he needed to be at the factory by 7 am. He was home by 5:30 pm. David Mackie was not a church-goer. His cars were very precious to him: a Hut, an Oldsmobile, then a Buick. The boys weren't allowed to drive them. One day when David was away on a trip, Charlie took it out alone and brought it back. He drove about 100 miles. But his father had noted the milage and when he returned Charlie was in hot water. On Saturdays the family frequently made trips to various small cities such as Elgin, Batavia, Geneva. His wife would make up a picnic and along the way, the family would find a nice location to spread out a blanket and eat. The thermos held milk or tea. He did like to fish. He went regularly to Canada for a couple of weeks. Often his fishing companion was Ernst Myler, a salesman for Cameron Can Machinery Co. located in New York. He also went fishing in Lake of the Woods in Canada. At home He kept up with the news every day with the Tribune in the morning and Daily News.He built a radio. Only one person could listen at a time because ear phones were needed. The second radio was larger but still only one person could listen. In the back yard he had a garden of many vegetables, e.g. carrots, radishes, and rhubarb. An apple tree and 3 cherry trees provided some fruit for pies.He retired a few year after the unexpected early death of William Cameron in Dec. 1934. Some of his retirement was spent traveling about the US. The couple went to Alaska by train to Vancouver and boat. They saw the Mendenhall glacier near Juneau. They went as far as Skagway. This was as far as one could go by boat and train. The couple also went with the Mosses to California by train in the late 30s. He had hopes to go to Hawaii after the war but became ill. He died of colon cancer on March 16, 1947 in Bethany hospital. He was ill about 10 days. He was buried in the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park.