Jessie McKechnie (1844 - 1853)

Born 1844 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Died 28 Sep 1853 at about age 9 in Vatersay Island, Scotland

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Biography

Jessie was born in 1844. She was the daughter of Malcolm McKechnie and Janet Ferrie. In 1851, Malcolm McK. age 35, shawl manufacturer, with wife Janet 34, and children Katherin 11, Mary 9, Jessie 7, Elizabeth 3 and Malcolm 4m lived at 9 Kiln Lane in Paisley, Renfrewshire. ^[1]

In 1853, her father had settled in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and her mother and siblings left Liverpool for Quebec City, travelling aboard the Annie Jane.^[2] "On 28th Septr 1853 the ship Annie Jane with emigrants from Liverpool to Quebec was totally wrecked ... and passengers numbering about 350 men women and children were drowned and their bodies interred here'. The Glasgow Saturday Post, October 1853 reported: "The wreck of the Annie Jane - We regret to learn that a family belonging to Sneddon Street, Paisley, of the name of McKechnie, consisting of a wife and five children were all lost in this ill-fated vessel. Mrs. McKechnie was on her way to Quebec to join her husband who has been some time in Canada." The list of steerage passengers who drowned in the Annie Jane shipwreck included Jessie McKechnie (Kiln Lane, Paisley – 9 yrs)^[3] The dead were buried in a mass grave on Vatersay, marked with a monument.

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYYM-GL3), household of Malcome Mckechnie, , Renfrewshire, Scotland; from "1851 England, Scotland & Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 11, PRO HO 107, The National Archives UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 1,042,367.
2. ↑ http://www.anniejane.net/
3. ↑ http://www.anniejane.net/steerage-passengers-drowned/