Walter Hardy Beaton

  General Notes:

Peter Brown notes:
I seem to have muddied things.
My query is the identity of the house - top in the photo (The one with the black dog). I suspect that, if it is Walliscot, the old man would be Walter Beaton. Any descendant of Walter's would be unrelated to me, but may know about the house.

My particular interest is not to build a tree (done that), but rather 'to put what meat I can on the ancestors bones'.

If you google "Made in Perth" you can find "James Calder". I put together an article about the Calder family (which needs an update - Errors abound) and the managers of Made in Perth posted it.

James Calder (1832-1917) bought a brewery and then a whisky distillery, retained his timber business, and subsequently his sons John (Brewing) and Sir James (Distilling and timber) completed a century of Calders in business. They died aged 93 and 94 in 1962 leaving large estates which their descendants dispersed in short order.

James Calder had eight surviving children. My mother's father's mother (Cecilia) was the eldest. Christina, Agnes, Marion, John, James, (then Walter and David by his second wife / his housekeeper).

Walter Beaton was a timber merchant and founded 'Beaton Brothers timber merchants and agents'.
I guess that Walter and James Calder were acquainted as timber merchants and perhaps both Catholics?

Charles Calder 1812-1865, Christina's grandfather, began a timber business in Blairgowrie in the 1840s. The business continues in Boston, Lincolnshire, to this day as "Calders and Grandidge Ltd"
There were various incarnations in the hundred years that the Calders operated their timber businesses. They supplied the Victorian era coal mines and railways with pit-props, posts and sleepers.
James had a brother, Charles, who took on his father's timber interests, while James created another.
Sir James Calder (1869-1962) was Christina's little brother and he was honoured with his knighthood for his work as Deputy Director of Timber during WW1.
My grandfather worked for them in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London when he was not "At War" until he retired in the 1950s.

Christina Calder:
Census - 1861 - James St. Perth.
James Calder, head, age 29, Wood merchant and shipbuilder employing 112 men & boys, b Crathie
Cecilia, wife, age 30, b Midlothian
Cecilia, daughter, 1 b Perth
Christina, 0 b Perth
Marjory Gellately, servant, b Perth

Census - 1871 - The Walk, Alloa, Clackmannanshire
James Calder, head, age 38, b 1833, Brewer employing 27 men and 9 women, b Glengairn, Aberdeenshire.
Cecelia, wife, age 38 b Edinburgh, Midlothian
Cecelia Mary, daughter, age 11, scholar, b Perth
Christina, daughter, age 10, scholar, b Perth
Agnes Helen, daughter, age 8, scholar, b Alloa
Marion Elizabeth, daughter, age 6, scholar, b Alloa
John, son, age 2, b Alloa
James Charles, son, age 1, b Alloa
Cecelia McGregor, visitor, widow, age 58, b. Midlothian
Isabella McHardy & Jane Nicoll domestic servants

1881 Census - The Walk Alloa - Cecilia 22, Christina 20, John 12, James 11. Their father had moved to Ardargie, and appears on the census there.

1891 Census - Frogmore House, Rickmansworth.
Philip Thornton 34 head solicitor b Marylebone M'sex
Cecilia C 29 wife b.Hampstead
Philip D 5 mo. son
Christian M Calder 29 visitor single b.Scotland


Dundee Evening Post 17 March 1900
Marriages -
Beaton=Calder - at Ardargie, Forgandenny, on the 15th inst., by His Lordship the Bishop of Dunkeld, Walter H. Beaton, 8 Netherhall Gardens, London, N.W., to Christian Calder, second daughter of Jas. Calder. Esq. of Ardargie.

1901 Census -

The Illustrated London News Aug 20.1904. -
HARDY BEATON, of Hazelwood, Abbottts Langley, and 2 Winchester Street, E.C., who died on July27, was proved on Aug. 6 by Alfred Brice Beaton, the brother, and Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton, Reginald Charles John Beaton, Arthur Cecil Beaton, and Wilfred Hardy Beaton, the sons the value of the estate being 154,475 Pounds. The testator gives 500 Pounds, and while she remains the widow an annuity of 450 Pounds, to his wiife, Mrs. Christian Mary Beaton; 100 Pounds and such furniture she may select to his daughter Florence Louise; his interest in the business of Tagart, Beaton and Co. to his son Ernest Walter, and in the firm of Beaton Brothers and Co. to his son Wilfred Hardy, he paying 3000Pounds, part of the profits thereof, to his brother Reginald; 10,000, in trust, for his family; 250 Pounds to his brother Alfred; and other small legacies. The residue of his property he leaves to his children, except those by his present wife, who are provided for by settlement.

Exerpt from "I Only Joined for the Hat" (p.12) by Christian Lamb
Occasionally I went to visit a great aunt in Kensington, one of my grandmother's sisters called Christian (Christina) Beaton, after whom I was named, although we called her Aunt Tin and she was Cecil Beaton's stepmother (step grandmother), a great character, and always wore rather loose, long dresses, very often with fur and/or beads around the hem, and very large hats with lots of feathers. She was usually accompanied by a bad-tempered, spoiled Peke who was inclined to bite. She had so many nephews and nieces, great-nephews and great-nieces who all sent her presents for Christmas, that she decided the best course of action was never to unwrap any of them and then send them all back the next Christmas, quite randomly. The result was that you never sent anything unworthy, as there was a good chance you would get it back. Aunt Tin lived in a rather stuffy hotel in great comfort in Kensington, and would always insist on my staying for dinner and regaling her and her friends with my latest triumphs and disasters. I also recall she greatly admired my trousers, which were quite daring apparel in those far off days.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. ⁸⁵⁵ My connection to Peter Brown is as follows:
Peter Brown . . .
His grandmother's sister was . . .
Christina Calder (1860) married Walter Beaton (1841)
His father was John Beaton (1804)
His father was William Beaton (c1745) who married Mary Priddle (1749)
Her father was Henry Priddle (1699)
His father was Thomas Priddle (1736) & he also had Thomas Priddle (1762)
He had John Priddle (1803)
He had George Priddle (1837)
He had Harriett Priddle (1867) who married Alexander McPhee (1865)
They had Myra McPhee (1893) who married Robert Martin (1892)
They had Elizabeth Martin (1924) who married Arthur Davies (1921)
His father was G. A. Davies (1894) & he also had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Another connection between Peter Brown & Robert is as follows:

Peter Brown . . .
His grandmother's sister was . . .
Christina Calder (186) married Walter Beaton (1841)
His father was John Beaton (1804)
His father was William Beaton (c1745) who married Mary Priddle (1749)
Her father was Henry Priddle (1699)
His father was Thomas Priddle (1736) & he also had Thomas Priddle (1762)
He had John Priddle (1803)
He had George Priddle (1837)
He had Mary Priddle (1862) who married Thomas Auliff (1843)
He had Herbert Aulife (1882) who married Ellen Smith (1879)
Her father was James Smith (1833) & he also had Elizabeth Smith (1871) who married Godfrey Pearson (1866)
His father was William Pearson (1830) who married Susannah Dawes (1841)
Her father was Edward Bannister Dawes (1813) & he also had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Walter married Caroline Louisa Stroughill on 28 Sep 1865 in St Stephens, South Lambeth, London, England. (Caroline Louisa Stroughill was born in Jul 1848 in Lambeth, Greater London, Surrey England and died on 10 Jun 1899 in Greater London, England.)

Walter next married Christina Mary Calder, daughter of James Calder and Cecilia Mackenzie, on 15 Mar 1900 in "Ardargie*, Forgandenny, Perth Scotland.⁸⁵⁵ (Christina Mary Calder was born on 25 Dec 1860 in Dunkeld, Perthshire Scotland, died on 12 Oct 1952 in Ledlanet, Milnathort, Perthshire Scotland and was buried in Forgandenny, Perth Scotland.)