James Hotchkies / Mary Rae - Tom Paterson Genealogy

	Child	Marriage	Spouse	Spouse's Parents

1	ANNE	m. 1893 Bothkennar	JOHN MALCOLM	Parents
	b. 5 Jan 1871, Carronshore d. 24 Oct 1938, living at 2 Blackmill Cresc, Carronshore	Children	b. 1870 Falkirk d. 22 Feb 1942, 240 King, Stenhousemuir

2	Euphemia	m. 1892, Larbert	Francis Watson
	b. 1872E, Bothkennar. Living with g'father George Rae in 1891		Lived in Stenhousemuir and had children: John, Jim, Jack and Euphemia who mar John Todd. Two of the boys were in the Shanghai and Hong Kong police before the war. Two of Jim's boys, Francis(21) and John(14), a mess boy, were in the Merchant Navy and died at sea on the SS Arletta on the 5 Aug 1942 off Nova Scotia on the way to halifax from Grangemouth. Willie Duckenfield's dad Joseph(49) was Bosun and died on the same ship. Willie was a friend of my dad. An account of the sinking is below

3	George	unm.
	b. 1873E, Bothkennar , d 1954 Gratefitter

4	James	unm
	b. 1875E, Bothkennar, d 1952 Iron Moulder

5	Mary	unm
	b. 1877E, Bothkennar, d. 1952

6	Cornelius, Gratefitter	m. 7 Sep 1903 Victoria Rd	Mary Aitkin Sneddon	Robert Sneddon Janet Fleming
	b. 1879E, Bothkennar aged 23 at marriage living at Blackmill, Carron. Witnesses William Hotchkies and S Dream?		b. 1883E aged 20 at marriage living at Victoria Rd Larbert

7	Livingston	m. 31 Dec 1906 The Manse Bothkennar	Christina Waugh	James Waugh Marion Penman
	b. 1881 Bothkennar aged 25 at marriage in 1906 and living at Thornhill Rd, Grahamston. Witnesses Marion Waugh and George Hotchkies		b. 1885E aged 21 at marriage and living at Longdyke, Bothkennar Children: Mary, Tommy, George, James, Robert, Mirren (Marion?), Livingston. Some of their descendants went to school with me.

8	William	m
	b. 1883E, Bothkennar

9	Jane	unm.
	b. 1886E, Bothkennar, d 1967

References:

1. Extract of Entry Birth. Parish of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, Entry 1

NAME and Surname	When and Where Born	Sex	Name, Surname and Rank or Profession of Father Name and Maiden Surname of Mother Date and Place of Marriage	Signature and Qualification of Informant, and residence, if out of the house when the birth occurred
Annie	1871	F	James Hotchkies	(Signed)
Hotchkies	January		Coalminer	James Hotchkies
	Fifth			Father
	10h.. a.m.		Mary Hotchkies	(Present)
			M.S. Rae
	Carronshore
	Bothkennar		1869. December 31st, Larbert

2. Extract of an Entry in the Register of Deaths, District of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Entry 455.

NAME and Surname Rank or Profession and whether Single, Married or Widowed	When and Where Died	Sex	Age	Name, Surname and Rank or Profession of Father Name and Maiden Surname of Mother	Cause of Death, Duration of Disease, and Medical Attendant by whom certified	Signature and Qualification of Informant, and residence, if out of the house when the death occurred
Annie	1938	F	67	James Hotchkies	Septceamia	(Signed)
Malcolm	October		yrs	Coalminer	of Idiopathic	John Malcolm
	Twenty fourth			deceased	Origin	Widower
	2h. 50m.. a.m.			Mary Hotchkies		(Present)
Married to	Royal Infirmary Falkirk			M.S. Rae	As cert by :
John Malcolm	(Usual Residence			deceased	A R Shanks (??)
Iron Moulder	2 Blackmill Crescent				M.Bch.B
	Carronshore)

3. SS Arletta Sinking.
At 16.13 hours on 5 August 1942 the unescorted Arletta (Master George William Stockton Rogers), a straggler from convoy ON-115, was torpedoed and sunk by U-458 south-southwest of Cape Race. The master, 27 crew members and six gunners were lost. The chief officer William M. Duncan and four crew members were rescued after 15 days adrift by the US Coast Guard weather ship USS Menemsha (AG 39) and landed at Boston on 25 August.
The ship, sailing alone, was torpedoed 300 miles from the nearest land and sank within three minutes. The Chief Officer, seeing a number of the crew attempting to lower a boat, jumped into it with the intention of cutting the falls as, owing to the heavy list, the boat was resting on the ship's side. The ship, however, sank too quickly and took the boat down with her. The Chief Officer and two members of the crew managed to reached an upturned boat which had floated clear of the ship. For two and a half days they clung to the bottom of this boat until weather conditions permitted it to be righted. The boat was found to be badly waterlogged and nearly all the equipment, food and water had been washed away. During the next six days two of the occupants of the boat died leaving the Chief Officer alone. Five days later he was picked up. Chief Officer Duncan acted with courage and resource in attempting to release one of the boats, when the ship was sinking and he displayed outstanding qualities of fortitude and endurance throughout the whole of his tremendous ordeal. When the ship sank, nine other members of the crew managed to reach three rafts, which they lashed together. They attempted without success to reach the upturned boat to which the Chief Officer was clinging. During the first night in the heavy seas one of the three rafts broke adrift and disappeared with three of the crew. The remaining two rafts kept together for about ten days, when one of the men died. During this period the remaining rafts were capsized several times by heavy seas and eventually one of them began to break up. The men on this raft were transferred to the remaining sound raft, but during the operation another man was lost. Four men now remained on the last raft, on which they drifted for a further five days before being picked up. Great courage and fortitude, were displayed by Third Officer Eaton, Radio Officer Powell, Fireman Cuthbert and Seaman Kirkwood during the fifteen days they were adrift.

The Arletta Steam Tanker was completed in May 1925 as Vanduara for Vanduara SS Co Ltd (Gow, Harrison & Co), Glasgow. 1937 renamed Arletta for Sir James German & Co Ltd, Cardiff.

Tom Paterson
(last updated 29th May 2019)

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