FIFTH GENERATION

105. William WHITEFORD was born on 9 Dec 1868 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He Lived at 8, Barclay St. in 1917 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

He was married to Elizabeth SCOTT (daughter of UNKNOWN and Mary SCOTT) on 1 Mar 1895 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He gave his age as 26 hers as 22 and daughter of Mary Scott father deceased. William WHITEFORD and Elizabeth SCOTT had the following children:

+197 i. Julia Watson WHITEFORD.
198 ii. James WHITEFORD was born in 1897 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He died on 27 Feb 1917 in France. He joined the R.S.F. on May 25th 1915 and transfered tp Machine Gun Corps. and later to Royal Flying Corps. In Civilian life he was an apprentice engineer witrh Messrs M. Gee and Sons , Laighpark and was connected with St. Seorge's U.F. Church on whose roll of honor his name appears.
He was buried after 27 Feb 1917 in AVESNES-LE-COMTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France. Inscription Reads:

In Memory of

J WHITEFORD

Private
15814
18th Coy., Machine Gun Corps
who died on
Tuesday 27th February 1917. Age 19.

Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Whiteford, of 8, Barclay St., Paisley.

Grave Reference/Panel Number: IV. B. 23.

Location: Avesnes-le-Comte is a large village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, approximately 20 kilometres west of Arras and 18 kilometres south-east of St. Pol. The Communal Cemetery lies on the CD No. 8 between the road to Manin and a side road called "Petit chemin de Manin" on the north-west side of the village and the extension is on the western side of it.

Historical Information: The village of Avesnes-le-Comte was for some time the VI Corps headquarters. The 37th and 30th Casualty Clearing Stations were there from April 1916, the 42nd in June 1916, and the 41st in January 1917. The communal cemetery contains two Commonwealth burials of the First World War, both made in April 1916. Thereafter, burials were made in the extension, which contains 332 graves. Most of these were from the 37th CCS which stayed in the village until July 1917. The extension also contains one Second World War burial. The extension was designed by Charles Holden.


+199 iii. Matthew Steritte WHITEFORD.
+200 iv. Ralph McCluskie WHITEFORD.
201 v. Elizabeth WHITEFORD. Never married and worked at 'Coats and Clark' and died in Paisley , Scotland around the 1960' s or 1970's.
202 vi. William WHITEFORD died. Aged 2 years.
+203 vii. Archibald WHITEFORD.