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Thomas Drever and Margaret Garrioch

Thomas Drever was the fourth child of Thomas Drever and Christian Drever. He was baptised in Westray on 26th December 1818, before the family moved to Pharay. He was with the family on Pharay, being at Holland in both 1841 and 1851.

He moved to Southhouse in Eday with the family and married Margaret Garrioch (b. 25th July 1830) from Eday on 20th September 1860 at Upper Cott. This was at the home of Margaret’s parents, James Garrioch and Janet Shearer.

Thomas and Margaret formed one of the three households at Southhouse, Eday in 1861, the others being Thomas’s parents and brother John Drever with his wife and family. They moved into Kirkwall by the late 1860s and were living on Broad St in 1871.

1871
Broad St, Kirkwall

Name	Relation	Status	Age	Occupation	Born
Thomas Drever	Head	Married	50 years	Fisherman	Westray
Margaret Drever	Wife	Married	39 years		Eday
Ann Drever	Dau		8 years		Eday
Margaret Drever	Dau		5 years		Eday
Jane Drever	Dau		3 years		Eday
Mary Drever	Dau		7 days		Eday

Thomas and Margaret are known to have had at least five children:

• Ann Drever b. 25th January 1863, Eday

• Margaret Drever b. 15th April 1865, Eday

• Jane Drever b. 21st January 1868, Eday who married George Seatter

• Mary Drever b. 14th August 1870, Kirkwall. She died in Kirkwall on 23rd August 1885 at the age of fifteen.

• Helen Drever b. 23rd September 1873, Kirkwall

Thomas’s occupation at the time of the 1861 census was ploughman. Subsequently he is recorded as a fisherman and then a boot and shoemaker. He died in Catherine’s Place on 15th November 1885.

Margaret continued to live at 17 Catherine’s Place and was there with her daughter Helen in 1891 when her occupation was given as washerwoman. She died on 10th December 1895 at the age of sixty five in School Place. The informant was her daughter, Helen.