William Sharpe McVittie

William Sharpe McVittie

• Father: Joseph McVittie b. 22 February 1826
• Mother: Mary G. Scott b. 26 August 1827

• William Sharpe McVittie was born on 16 March 1857 in Annan, Dumfries, Scotland, or Brydekirk.
• Mary G. Scott arrived in the Port of New York on 12 December 1871, accompanied by William Sharpe McVittie, Joseph Lang McVittie, Isabella Harris McVittie and Thomas Kerr McVittie from Liverpool aboard the White Star Line steamship Atlantic, burthen 2,366 tons, master Hamilton Perry.
       The sinking of the Atlantic less than two years later on 1 April 1873 off the village of Prospect, Nova Scotia, is Canada's second worst marine disaster of all time, with the loss of some 562 lives.
• Joseph McVittie and Mary G. Scott appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, at Irving and also in the household was Eugenia Dadie, age 25. Margeret Dutcher and her family are also enumerated with her husband in Duchess County.. Other members of the household included William Sharpe McVittie, Margaret Tate McVittie, Abijah Ernest Dutcher, Margaret Minerva Dutcher, Martha Isabel Dutcher, Theodore James Rockwell Dutcher, Joseph Lang McVittie and Thomas Kerr McVittie.
• He was a freight man, according to the 1880 census.
• He married Clara Dell Sherwood circa 1881.
• William Sharpe McVittie and Clara Dell Sherwood appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, at 71 Lewis. Other members of the household included Mary E. MacVittie, William McVittie, James MacVittie, Grace I. MacVittie, Edith C. MacVittie, Clara Dell MacVittie and Carl Douglas MacVittie.
• He was a drayman, according to the 1900 census.
• William Sharpe McVittie and Clara Dell Sherwood appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Lockport, Dutchess County, New York, at 74? Lewis Street. Other members of the household included Mary E. MacVittie, Edith C. MacVittie, Carl Douglas MacVittie and Roy MacVittie.
• He was a self-employed cart man, according to the 1910 census.
• William Sharpe McVittie died on 5 May 1913 at age 56 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York.

• Last Edited: 20 Dec 2011