Father: William McAllister: 7 Sept. 1870, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 7 April, 1921
Mother: Janet Johnston: 20 May, 1870 Blackfaulds Farm, Shettleston, Lanarkshire- 1 May, 1921, Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Children: Ronald Thomson Abbott, Moira Johnston Abbott (married Neville May)
Brothers:
John "Jack" Johnston McAllister: 17 March, 1903, Rhindmuir, Easterhouse, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 28 Feb. 1978, Park Circus, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. (Married Ann "Nan" Armour)
William McAllister: 1898-1901
William McAllister: 1907-1908
"Mama" as the family all knew her, was just 19 years old when she and her brother, Jack, lost their mother and father. They went to stay with an aunt (Helen McAllister Ballie) in Mount Florida, Glasgow. Jack stayed on there to complete his school. Mama went to stay in a YWCA in Glasgow and studied to become a teacher at Jordanhill College. The Grand Hotel. She met Sydney at a dance at the Grand Hotel, and he got her address from his cousin, Ethel, who was at college with Mama. However, the address was slightly incorrect, so he made twenty phone calls until he located her! The rest is history! She taught until she married Sydney in 1929. During World War II, when her mother-in-law, Isabella Abbott, had a major stroke after being bombed out of her house in the Clydebank Blitz and was left unable to walk and semi-paralyzed, she looked after Isabella for seven years. Mama returned to teaching after her children, Ronnie and Moira, were teenagers. After being widowed in 1973, she moved to USA in 1978, as both Ronnie, Moira and their families were in the USA. She was very active and independent until she had to have major spinal surgery at the age of 90 and never really recovered from that operation, although she lived for another 6 years, coping wonderfully with blindness from glaucoma and congestive heart failure. She was an amazing lady, loved and respected, and the center of her family throughout the years. She will always be greatly missed and loved.
Her cremated remains were returned to Scotland and interred at Dalnottar Cemetery, Glasgow alongside her husband and his parents.
Mother: Janet Johnston: 20 May, 1870 Blackfaulds Farm, Shettleston, Lanarkshire- 1 May, 1921, Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Children: Ronald Thomson Abbott, Moira Johnston Abbott (married Neville May)
Brothers:
John "Jack" Johnston McAllister: 17 March, 1903, Rhindmuir, Easterhouse, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 28 Feb. 1978, Park Circus, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. (Married Ann "Nan" Armour)
William McAllister: 1898-1901
William McAllister: 1907-1908
"Mama" as the family all knew her, was just 19 years old when she and her brother, Jack, lost their mother and father. They went to stay with an aunt (Helen McAllister Ballie) in Mount Florida, Glasgow. Jack stayed on there to complete his school. Mama went to stay in a YWCA in Glasgow and studied to become a teacher at Jordanhill College. The Grand Hotel. She met Sydney at a dance at the Grand Hotel, and he got her address from his cousin, Ethel, who was at college with Mama. However, the address was slightly incorrect, so he made twenty phone calls until he located her! The rest is history! She taught until she married Sydney in 1929. During World War II, when her mother-in-law, Isabella Abbott, had a major stroke after being bombed out of her house in the Clydebank Blitz and was left unable to walk and semi-paralyzed, she looked after Isabella for seven years. Mama returned to teaching after her children, Ronnie and Moira, were teenagers. After being widowed in 1973, she moved to USA in 1978, as both Ronnie, Moira and their families were in the USA. She was very active and independent until she had to have major spinal surgery at the age of 90 and never really recovered from that operation, although she lived for another 6 years, coping wonderfully with blindness from glaucoma and congestive heart failure. She was an amazing lady, loved and respected, and the center of her family throughout the years. She will always be greatly missed and loved.
Her cremated remains were returned to Scotland and interred at Dalnottar Cemetery, Glasgow alongside her husband and his parents.
Father: William McAllister: 7 Sept. 1870, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 7 April, 1921
Mother: Janet Johnston: 20 May, 1870 Blackfaulds Farm, Shettleston, Lanarkshire- 1 May, 1921, Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Children: Ronald Thomson Abbott, Moira Johnston Abbott (married Neville May)
Brothers:
John "Jack" Johnston McAllister: 17 March, 1903, Rhindmuir, Easterhouse, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 28 Feb. 1978, Park Circus, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. (Married Ann "Nan" Armour)
William McAllister: 1898-1901
William McAllister: 1907-1908
"Mama" as the family all knew her, was just 19 years old when she and her brother, Jack, lost their mother and father. They went to stay with an aunt (Helen McAllister Ballie) in Mount Florida, Glasgow. Jack stayed on there to complete his school. Mama went to stay in a YWCA in Glasgow and studied to become a teacher at Jordanhill College. The Grand Hotel. She met Sydney at a dance at the Grand Hotel, and he got her address from his cousin, Ethel, who was at college with Mama. However, the address was slightly incorrect, so he made twenty phone calls until he located her! The rest is history! She taught until she married Sydney in 1929. During World War II, when her mother-in-law, Isabella Abbott, had a major stroke after being bombed out of her house in the Clydebank Blitz and was left unable to walk and semi-paralyzed, she looked after Isabella for seven years. Mama returned to teaching after her children, Ronnie and Moira, were teenagers. After being widowed in 1973, she moved to USA in 1978, as both Ronnie, Moira and their families were in the USA. She was very active and independent until she had to have major spinal surgery at the age of 90 and never really recovered from that operation, although she lived for another 6 years, coping wonderfully with blindness from glaucoma and congestive heart failure. She was an amazing lady, loved and respected, and the center of her family throughout the years. She will always be greatly missed and loved.
Her cremated remains were returned to Scotland and interred at Dalnottar Cemetery, Glasgow alongside her husband and his parents.
Mother: Janet Johnston: 20 May, 1870 Blackfaulds Farm, Shettleston, Lanarkshire- 1 May, 1921, Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Children: Ronald Thomson Abbott, Moira Johnston Abbott (married Neville May)
Brothers:
John "Jack" Johnston McAllister: 17 March, 1903, Rhindmuir, Easterhouse, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire - 28 Feb. 1978, Park Circus, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. (Married Ann "Nan" Armour)
William McAllister: 1898-1901
William McAllister: 1907-1908
"Mama" as the family all knew her, was just 19 years old when she and her brother, Jack, lost their mother and father. They went to stay with an aunt (Helen McAllister Ballie) in Mount Florida, Glasgow. Jack stayed on there to complete his school. Mama went to stay in a YWCA in Glasgow and studied to become a teacher at Jordanhill College. The Grand Hotel. She met Sydney at a dance at the Grand Hotel, and he got her address from his cousin, Ethel, who was at college with Mama. However, the address was slightly incorrect, so he made twenty phone calls until he located her! The rest is history! She taught until she married Sydney in 1929. During World War II, when her mother-in-law, Isabella Abbott, had a major stroke after being bombed out of her house in the Clydebank Blitz and was left unable to walk and semi-paralyzed, she looked after Isabella for seven years. Mama returned to teaching after her children, Ronnie and Moira, were teenagers. After being widowed in 1973, she moved to USA in 1978, as both Ronnie, Moira and their families were in the USA. She was very active and independent until she had to have major spinal surgery at the age of 90 and never really recovered from that operation, although she lived for another 6 years, coping wonderfully with blindness from glaucoma and congestive heart failure. She was an amazing lady, loved and respected, and the center of her family throughout the years. She will always be greatly missed and loved.
Her cremated remains were returned to Scotland and interred at Dalnottar Cemetery, Glasgow alongside her husband and his parents.
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