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Robert Drever and Jane Mowat

Robert Drever (b. about 1854) on Pharay was the fifth of the six children of Thomas Drever and Jane Groat. He married Jane Mowat in Westray in July 1876. Jane was the daughter of Gavin Mowat and Jane Pottinger.

Robert was a fisherman according the censuses for Pierowall from 1881 to 1901 and subsequently a shoemaker.

He and Jane had three children:

• Rebecca Jane Drever b. 13th December 1876 who married William Peace in Kirkwall in 1902. William was from Eday. Rebecca died in Kirkwall in 1926.

• Mary Drever who married William Tulloch Thomson (b. 12th November 1884) in Westray in January 1910. He was stonemason and the son of John Thomson and Jessie Tulloch. Mary died in Firth on 15th May 1935 at the age of fifty. William died in Stromness on 31st March 1960. They had family.

• Thomas Gavin Mowat Drever b. 17th October 1898 who married Jamesina MacPherson Sandison (b. 13th April 1895) in October 1920. She was the daughter of William Sandison and Georgina Harcus. Like his father, Thomas was also a shoemaker at this time. They had family. Thomas died in Kirkwall in 1949. He was fifty.

Jane died at Pierowall on 16th September 1908. Robert Drever died there on 11th April 1929. He was seventy three.