McKENZIE, Margaret & Betsy
30 October 1890 – 16 June 1982
Born 1884
Origin Rheindown, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland
First settled in Perth, WA
Original Occupation Crofter's daughter
Occupation in Australia Boarding House Keeper
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Departure Port Liverpool
Arrival Year 1906
Albany
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Margaret worked as a waitress, first in Perth then at the 'Coffee Palane' in Kellerberrin where she met her husban, Bart Mott, Farmer. Thery had seven children and over 30 grandchildren.
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Recent family research has shown that much of what Margaret McKenzie said of her past was false ('she was a bit of a fibber', said one of her children). She was born Margaret Brownlie McGinty at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, on the 15th of February 1886. In the Scottish Census for 1901 her occupation is given as 'home help'. Betsy McKenzie was working as a waitress in Glasgow at the time and, presumably, there the two girls met and made their way to Australia. Margaret was certainly a hard worker and kept her family together during the hard times of the 1930s.
Mon 14 May 2012
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