Individual Details
Walter TAIT ⛵
(3 Nov 1837 - 21 Aug 1902)
Marriage Certificate lists him as a 23-year-old bachelor, occupation as Cabinet Maker, address as 25 Ironside Court, Edinburgh.
Isabella's death certificate lists his occupation as Cabinet Maker.
First families 2001 shows his occupation as Cabinet Maker.
Immigration Details: Landed in Brisbane on the Waroonga on 2 Oct 1885.
Midlothian may mean mid-lowlands According to Colin TATE, Walter TAIT's death certificate No. 02/B002658 his parents were Gilbert TAIT and Isabella SCOTT.
Walter and Mary Ann TAIT, Peter Aitken TAIT(son), unnamed TAIT(still born) and Kenneth Edward ROSENBERG(grandson) are all buried in an unmarked grave at Lutwyche Cemetery.
Clan Tait History
The surname Tait was originally a nickname.
According to Venerable Bede, in his book ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, Ethelberga, who was daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent, she was also known as ‘Tate’ (feminie), and there are nine indivduals recorded as being called ‘Tata’ (masculine) in Walter de Gray Birch’s Cartularium Saxonicum.
Tate is also a Yiddish (Jewish) word meaning ‘father’.
In Old Norse the word teitr appears, meaing ‘glad’, or ‘cheerful’, and in the Icelandic manuscript Landnámabók the word appears numerous times but as an actual name, Teitr.
In 1329, there is a recorded payment by the king, either Robert I or David II, to Thomas dictus Tayt as a debt repayment.
There are several entries of payment of a pension recorded between 1362 and 1370 to John Tayt, a clerk, who seemed to have been connected to the hospital of Montrose.
In 1381, Alexander Tayt was recorded as being burgess of Edinburgh.
Adam Tayte, in 1424, was granted safe conduct papers so he could travel to England, and it is thought that he is the same person as the Adam Tayt, scrutifer, who was witness to a charter in Paisley in 1432.
In Edinburgh, in 1490, Andrew Tait was Master of the Flesher Craft, and a different Andrew Tayt was, in 1492, one of the preambulators of Yochry’s and Achbrady’s boundries.
A Robert Tait was recorded in 1531 as being a tenant of the land of Wydsyd, and Christie Tett and Dand Taitt were tenants of Kelso Abbey in 1567.
There is a record of the surname as far north as Orkney in 1575.
The barony of Cherrytrees was in the possession of a family by this name in 1605.
An ancient family in Tweedale, the Taits of Pirn, ended their line with wo heiresses, Anne and Margaret, of which one was recorded as having married a Horsburgh of that Ilk.
Born in Edinburgh on 21st December, 1811, Archibald Campbell Tait was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to the year of his death in 1882. He died at the age of 70 on 3rd December.
Isabella's death certificate lists his occupation as Cabinet Maker.
First families 2001 shows his occupation as Cabinet Maker.
Immigration Details: Landed in Brisbane on the Waroonga on 2 Oct 1885.
Midlothian may mean mid-lowlands According to Colin TATE, Walter TAIT's death certificate No. 02/B002658 his parents were Gilbert TAIT and Isabella SCOTT.
Walter and Mary Ann TAIT, Peter Aitken TAIT(son), unnamed TAIT(still born) and Kenneth Edward ROSENBERG(grandson) are all buried in an unmarked grave at Lutwyche Cemetery.
Clan Tait History
The surname Tait was originally a nickname.
According to Venerable Bede, in his book ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, Ethelberga, who was daughter of Ethelbert, king of Kent, she was also known as ‘Tate’ (feminie), and there are nine indivduals recorded as being called ‘Tata’ (masculine) in Walter de Gray Birch’s Cartularium Saxonicum.
Tate is also a Yiddish (Jewish) word meaning ‘father’.
In Old Norse the word teitr appears, meaing ‘glad’, or ‘cheerful’, and in the Icelandic manuscript Landnámabók the word appears numerous times but as an actual name, Teitr.
In 1329, there is a recorded payment by the king, either Robert I or David II, to Thomas dictus Tayt as a debt repayment.
There are several entries of payment of a pension recorded between 1362 and 1370 to John Tayt, a clerk, who seemed to have been connected to the hospital of Montrose.
In 1381, Alexander Tayt was recorded as being burgess of Edinburgh.
Adam Tayte, in 1424, was granted safe conduct papers so he could travel to England, and it is thought that he is the same person as the Adam Tayt, scrutifer, who was witness to a charter in Paisley in 1432.
In Edinburgh, in 1490, Andrew Tait was Master of the Flesher Craft, and a different Andrew Tayt was, in 1492, one of the preambulators of Yochry’s and Achbrady’s boundries.
A Robert Tait was recorded in 1531 as being a tenant of the land of Wydsyd, and Christie Tett and Dand Taitt were tenants of Kelso Abbey in 1567.
There is a record of the surname as far north as Orkney in 1575.
The barony of Cherrytrees was in the possession of a family by this name in 1605.
An ancient family in Tweedale, the Taits of Pirn, ended their line with wo heiresses, Anne and Margaret, of which one was recorded as having married a Horsburgh of that Ilk.
Born in Edinburgh on 21st December, 1811, Archibald Campbell Tait was the archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to the year of his death in 1882. He died at the age of 70 on 3rd December.
Events
Families
Spouse | Mary Ann AITKEN ⛵🧬 (1841 - 1928) |
Child | Annie TAIT (1863 - ) |
Child | Gilbert TAIT (1865 - 1932) |
Child | Peter Aitken TAIT (1868 - 1886) |
Child | Isabella Aitken "Belle" TAIT ⛵🧬 (1870 - 1951) |
Child | Hellen "Nellie" TAIT (1872 - 1950) |
Child | Frances Mary McKenzie TAIT (1875 - ) |
Child | James Aitken TAIT (1876 - 1954) |
Child | Margaret Anderson "Maggie" TAIT 🧬 (1878 - 1919) |
Father | Gilbert TAIT (1811 - 1874) |
Mother | Isabella SCOTT (1805 - 1884) |
Notes
Birth
1881 Scotland Census says born Hopkirk, Selkirkshire.FamilySearch says: Selkirkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Marriage
After Banns according to the Forms of the Evangelical Union Church.Gray's Annual Directory lists the entrance to Ironside Court as 69 Abbeyhill which is opposite the Old Physic Gardens and Queen Mary's Bath House in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Census
1881 Scotland CensusName Walter Tait
Age 44
Estimated Birth Year abt 1837
Relationship Head
Spouse's Name Mary A Tait
Gender Male
Where born Hopkirk, Selkirkshire
Registration Number 685/1
Registration district St George
Civil parish St George
County Midlothian
Address 3 Devon Place
Occupation Cabinetmaker
ED 85
Household schedule number 5
Line 18
Roll cssct1881_283
Household Members (Name) Age Relationship
Walter Tait 44 Head
Mary A Tait
40 Wife
Annie Tait
17 Daughter
Gilbert Tait
15 Son
Peter A Tait
13 Son
Isabella Tait
10 Daughter
Helen Tait
8 Daughter
Frances M M Tait
6 Daughter
James Tait
4 Son
Margaret A Tait
2 Daughter
Immigration
First name(s) WalterLast name Tait
Age 48
Birth year 1837
Year 1885
Departure date 05 Aug 1885
Departure port Glasgow, Scotland
Arrival date 2 Oct 1885
Arrival port Brisbane
Ship name Waroonga
State Queensland
Country Australia
Record set Queensland Assisted Immigration 1848-1912
Category Travel & migration
Subcategory Migration
Collections from Australasia, Australia
Occupation
On daughter Isabella's marriage certificate.Death
DEATH NOTICETAIT - On the 21st August, at his residence, Edgar Street, Bowen Hills, Brisbane,
Walter, beloved husband of Mary A. Tait (late of Edinburgh, Scotland), aged 65.
The Brisbane Courier/Sat 30 Aug 1902/Page 4/Family Notices
Burial
Walter TaitBirth 1837
Death 21 Aug 1902 (aged 64–65)
Bowen Hills, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Burial Lutwyche Cemetery
Kedron, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Plot Mon-GP5-43A-37
Memorial ID 236 542
Find a Grave
Walter Tait
Birth
1837
Death
21 Aug 1902 (aged 64–65)
Bowen Hills, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Burial
Lutwyche Cemetery
Kedron, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Plot
Mon-GP5-43A-37
Memorial ID
236718542