Joseph McVittie
b. 22 February 1826
- Joseph McVittie was born on 22 February 1826 in Gateside, Dumfries, Scotland.
- He married Mary G. Scott circa 1848 in Whiteshead Ferry, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.
- Joseph McVittie arrived in 1871, according to the 1900 census. Immigration of his wife and children has been verified by passenger lists, but no further information on his crossing has yet been found.
- 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 Margaret Tate McVittie, Abijah Ernest Dutcher, Margaret Minerva Dutcher, Martha Isabel Dutcher, Theodore James Rockwell Dutcher, William Sharpe McVittie, Joseph Lang McVittie and Thomas Kerr McVittie.
- He was a freight clerk, according to the 1880 census.
- Joseph McVittie and Mary G. Scott appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, at 150 Spaulding.
- Last Edited: 20 Dec 2011
Family: Mary G. Scott b. 26 August 1827
- Margaret Tate McVittie+ b. 23 August 1849, d. 20 April 1906
- Mary McVittie b. 6 March 1851
- James Scott McVittie b. 2 December 1852
- Catherine McVittie b. 5 January 1855
- William Sharpe McVittie+ b. 16 March 1857, d. 5 May 1913
- Joseph Lang McVittie b. 25 February 1859
- Isabella Harris McVittie b. 6 January 1861
- Thomas Kerr McVittie b. 15 September 1862
- Jessie McVittie b. 28 March 1866