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Genealogy of Victor James Hutchison and (1) Elizabeth C F Muncall, (2) Mary E Jack.
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  Victor James Hutchison.

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 Elizabeth C F Muncall. Mary E Jack.
Born 7 August 1896.   1889. 6 October 1866.
Place  Aberdeen.      
Died 26 April 1937.   November 1926.  
Place Brighton, Sussex.      
Married     13 April 1926. 9 April 1928.
Place       Aberdeen.
Ancestors James Hutchison and Alexandrina West.   William Dickson Forbes and
Mary Woodman Marr.		  
Siblings        

Children of Elizabeth Copland Forbes Muncall.

ref Name Born Died
  Victor Forbes. November 1926. January 1927.

Children of Mary Ellen Jack.

ref Name Born Died
Eileen May. 6 Nov1929.

 


 

  

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Victor James Hutchison, born 7 August 1896 at Raith Cottage, Calsayseat Road, Aberdeen, was the eighth child of James Hutchison, but the first child of James and his second wife, Alexandrina West. By December 1901 both his parents had died and although his father's Testament had expressed the wish that the children should live together in the care of a respectable Housekeeper, and that his son should inherit his business on attaining the age of twenty-one years, none of this happened as presumably it was found to be impracticable. The four surviving children of James Hutchison's first marriage have been traced as living with Hutchison relatives in Cruden but although Victor may also have lived there this cannot be proved. It is possible that he may have been cared for by a relative of his mother.

The first definite information about Victor is at the time of his enlistment into the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He joined from an address at Croydon, Surrey, on 4 March 1915, when his occupation is shown as Motor Mechanic. He served as a Guardsman at home and in France, and on 12 September 1917 he received minor gunshot wounds and was gassed at the same time. This occurred at Rugby Camp which is described as being between Iverdinghe and Boesinghe. The War Diary states that for four days they were "bombed, shelled and gassed with the greatest freedom". Several soldiers were gassed at that time, two of whom died, with one being killed by shellfire and three wounded.

He was discharged on demobilization on 10 February 1919, but for some reason enlisted again at Aberdeen on 27 March 1919 for what was obviously a three-year engagement as he was discharged on 26 March 1922. A Character Certificate from the Lieut-Colonel Commanding Guards' Depot dated 27 February 1922 certifies that his character was "Very good. A clean, sober, trustworthy man. Has been an officer's servant for some considerable period during his service."

On 13 April 1926 at 54 Castle Street, Aberdeen, he married by Sheriff's Warrant, Elizabeth Copland Forbes, widow of James Mungall, Commercial Traveller. She was aged 36 so was slightly older than Victor and had four children from her previous marriage. A photograph received from the son of one of those children shows a very attractive woman who was said to have been a singer who performed on the radio, but this is anecdotal. Tragically, Elizabeth died after giving birth to a son, Victor Forbes Hutchison, in November 1926; the baby only survived a few weeks. The four children spent some time with Forbes relatives, but apparently they were very unhappy, and thereafter were cared for by relations of their deceased Mungall father.

At the time of his marriage to Elizabeth, Victor's occupation is shown as an Insurance Agent, but when he married for the second time Mary Ellen Jack, on 9 April 1928, at the North United Free Church, Aberdeen, after Banns had been called, his occupation was then "Drapery Manager", and his home address Brixton Hill, London. Their only child, Eileen May Hutchison, was born on 6 November 1929.

In 1937 the family were living in Brighton. Possibly having been gassed during WW1 had proved deleterious to Victor's lungs and he died on 26 April 1937 at Brighton Municipal Hospital of acute myocardia, bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis.

Biography by Eileen Lothian.