Jeanie (Jane) JACK

1866 - 1910  (44 years)

• Name	Jeanie (Jane) JACK
  Birth	1866
  Gender	Female
  Story	Jeanie's story on Glasgow to Balmain
  Death	3 Jul 1910	Hamilton SCT   [1]
  Burial	5 Jul 1910	Newhall Cemetery,Hamilton SCT   [2]
  Person ID	I11	Hannah
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	William JACK
  Mother	Catherine MCDONALD,   b. 1839
  Marriage	31 Dec 1861	Hamilton,SCT   [3]
  Family ID	F8	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas Baird HANNAH,   b. 12 Sep 1863, Tradeston,SCT d. 8 Apr 1895, Rozelle,Sydney NSW (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	23 Mar 1888	Balmain,NSW   [4]
  Children	1. William Alexander HANNAH,   b. 3 Dec 1888, Leichardt,Sydney NSW d. 7 Dec 1962, Marrickville,Sydney NSW (Age 74 years)   2. Agnes Baird HANNAH,   b. 7 Sep 1892, Balmain,NSW d. 1966, Newcastle,NSW (Age 73 years)   3. Catherine HANNAH,   b. 11 Dec 1894, Balmain,NSW d. 15 Jul 1955, Glasgow,SCT (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2016

  
  

  Family 2	William LINTON,   b. 1866, Hamilton SCT d. 18 Nov 1940, Hamilton SCT (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1901	Hamilton SCT   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Janet (Jessie) LINTON,   b. 7 Jun 1905, Hamilton SCT d. 1977, Glasgow SCT (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F26	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2016

  
  

• Documents

  1901 Marriage William Linton Jeanie Jack.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Jeanie Jack was born in 1867 in Hamilton, a small town on the southeastern outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents were William Jack and Catherine McDonald. William, a coalminer, was the son of Arthur Jack, labourer, and Jane Jackson. Catherine was the daughter of Malcolm McDonald, housepainter, and Jane Millar. William and Catherine married on the 21st December 1861 in Leechlee Street, Hamilton, "according to the forms of the UP Church of Scotland". Jeanie was joined by a sister, Mary-Ann Jack, on 10th January 1869. It is believed there were other siblings, including perhaps twin brothers, but this is still to be confirmed. The next record of Jeanie is found in the NSW immigration papers. Here she is listed as Jane Jack, 18 years old. Her occupation is listed as "servant", home county as Lanark, and her religion as Presbyterian. Jane listed an uncle as present in the Colony. This may have been either William Spalding, her aunts husband, or perhaps more likely her mothers brother, John McDonald who is believed to have come to the colony with his wife Martha for a while. It is not yet known who paid the immigration deposit for Jane. She left Scotland aboard the SS Belgic out of Plymouth Harbour, arriving in Sydney on the 12th of September 1885. On arrival, she probably stayed with her aunt, Ann Spalding, in Rosebery Street, Balmain. William Spalding, his wife Ann and family had arrived in Sydney the year before aboard the Stirlingshire. This is probably where Jane came to meet young Thomas Baird Hannah whom she married in 1888. The wedding took place "according to the forms of the Presbyterian church" in the home of William and Ann Spalding, attended and witnessed by Albert Kitching and Maria Carr, who was later to marry William Spalding jnr. The ceremony was performed by Reverend James Cosh. In addition to the Spaldings, family members who attended may have included Thomas's sister Margaret and husband Charles Burns (with cousins William, Charles, Mary and baby Robert), and sister Jane, her husband Alexander, and their daughter Agnes. Probably also Jane's uncle John MacDonald, his wife Martha and family were there as well. Children were soon to follow. William Alexander Hannah was born on the 3rd of December 1888 in Halloran Street, Leichardt. A Mrs Sonter, or perhaps Souter, Thomas' sister Jane, attended the birth. Their second child, Agnes, was born on 7th September 1892. By now, Thomas and Jane had moved to 120 Foucart Street, Balmain. Foucart Street runs away from Rozelle Bay and up the hill to Balmain. In attendance at the birth were Doctor Davidson and Mrs Spalding. This could have been either Mrs Ann Spalding, or her daughter-in-law, Maria. Their last child, Catherine (Kate) was born on the 11th December 1894. This is the first occasion when Jane recorded her name as "Jeanie". Doctor Kelly and Mrs Spalding attended the birth. When baby Catherine was almost five months old, tragedy was to strike the little family. On the evening of Monday the 8th of April, Thomas decided to go down to the wharf at the bottom of Gordon Street, Rozelle, and catch some prawns. The Daily Telegraph reported that an eyewitness alerted Balmain police that she had seen "a man" slip from the rocks after the net become tangled around his leg. The water police recovered Thomas's body at 11 am on Tuesday morning. William Spalding of 21 Christie Street, Balmain, and Jane Hannah of Foucart Street, Balmain witnessed Thomas's death certificate. Jeanie would have stayed in Sydney for a few years. After the deaths of Charles Burns and Alexander Souter, and with the outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney around 1899, she decided to return to Scotland with her three children. Perhaps she had the offer of marriage in her hometown of Hamilton to help seal the decision. Charles Burns Jnr writes of the time around her departure as follows: "He (William Alexander Hannah) was a native of Rozelle and went home to Scotland with his mother and sister Agnes when they were very small, after their father had been drowned in Rozelle Bay. The Balmain people got up a benefit for my Aunt, and they raised 100 pound. I went with my mother to the concert. 'It was during the bubonic plague and when we got there we were told that that part of Balmain was to be quarantined, but this did not happen till two days after. I carried Agnes who was about 3 years old aboard the ship, and didn't she play up on the way over. The youngest Cathie got thrown out of her Bunk and broke her collarbone." On arrival in Glasgow, family legend has it that Thomas's brother William oversaw the children's schooling, and eventually arranged for William Alexander to become indentured as a brass moulder in one of the shipyards which lined the river Clyde. In 1901 Jeanie remarried to William Linton in Hamilton. A daughter Jessie was born to the couple around 1904. Legend suggests that the children of her first marriage didn't get on well with their stepfather, perhaps preferring the company of their uncle William and family. This would account for why their uncle was involved in their schooling. Jeanie Jack died on Sunday the 3rd of July, 1910 at 45 Muir Street, Hamilton. She was 42 years old.

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] Death, Jeanie JACK (11), 1910 RD 647/00 Entry 352. [S62] Burial Entry, Jeanie JACK (11), Plot G597 (Reliability: 3). [S86] Marriage William JACK and Catherine MCDONALD, 1862 RD Hamilton, Lanark Entry 5 (Reliability: 3). [S84] Marriage Thomas Baird HANNAH (10) and Jane JACK (11), 1888 Entry 1957 (Reliability: 3). [S59] Marriage, William LINTON (86) and Jeanie JACK (11), 1901 RD Hamilton, Lanark Entry 144 (Reliability: 3).