The Christie’s

The following is taken from the book that Audrey Bake put together for her children. I have copied it word for word. (If you see some thing in Italics, those are words I added) It begins with a letter from Evelyn who has just had lunch with Agnes and Harriet and they have decided to look into and gather our Christie family history. Dates come from the Family Bible that Evelyn photocopied and typed up.

Letter to Harriet and Al from Evelyn and Marshall:

Sunday afternoon Aug. 24th

Dear Harriet and Al:

First of all I want to thank you once again for being our guests for such on Wednesday.  We enjoyed visiting with you and Agnes.  I’m wondering if her cat’s eye was taken care of at 9:30 the next morning.  

I copied the papers I have taken from the Family Bible.  The copy we received was so light it would not be recopied well.  By the time I got to typing the newspaper account I made lots of typing errors but I think you can make out everything.  I see Grandma Christie was both a seaman as well as a barber.

If you have a copy of the cemetery plots I would appreciate seeing that we may get there some time you never know.  I wonder too if you happen to have a picture of all the Christie family at their home. (Scroll down to see a photocopy of the photograph and sketch and names done by Marilyn Bake)  I remember seeing one some where some time but we don’t have one.  I am going down to help Frances Forman identify some photographs she has of Alberta’s and if she has one I might get a copy made.  By that I mean Marshall copied a family picture taken here sometime after Florence Christie was born in 1912 and John Stanchfield Jr. died in 1913.  Maybe you have one.  In the first row was Alberta, Alex, Florence, Jeffrey, George, you and Margaret.  In the second row: Your mother (Harriet and Agne’s mother Emily Christie), my mother (Agnes R. Wittman),  Aunt Maggie, Grandma Christie (Henrietta Watson Christie) , Aunt Bird and Aunt Retta.  In the back row standing is: Alex Jeffery, Harriet Stanchfield, my Dad, Arthur Jeffrey, Sr. and Arthur Jr.  John Stanchfield Jr., Uncle Al holding Florence, Uncle Stanch, Agnes and Alex Stanchfield.  I’m sure every branch of the family has one of these pictures but anyway Marshall  took ours down to his office and had a copy made and it turned out well.  So much for all of this.  I’ll look forward to hearing from you.

Our love,

Evelyn and Marshall

Christie Family: Typed by Evelyn 

Deaths: Listed in Family Bible

Name:	Date of Death:	Notes:
John Christie	July 28, 1865	at Jersey City, New Jersey
Maxwell W. Christie	July 1, 1882
Minnie Christie	May 14, 1900	I imagine this must have been Willamena
Alexander W. Christie Sr.	June 21, 1900
Ethel May Jeffery
John W. Stanchfield, Jr.	Oct. 25, 1913
Aunt	Feb. 9, 1911
Mother H.W. Christie	July 11, 1917	Seattle
Mrs. J.T. Gray (Emily)	May 30, 1922	7 p.m. at Aberdeen, Wa. Brought to Minn.

These are the only names recorded in the Family Bible and I can only add for sure the exact date of my own Dad.

Wiliam W. Christie

May 19, 1946

Seattle, Washington

I know Aunt Retta died while I was in Durham N.C. some time between Sept. and Dec. 1945 (1943)

Aunt Lucy died while I was in high school between 1934-1938

Aunt Maggie, Uncle Al, Uncle Jim, Aunt Elizabeth and Aunt Grace were all living at the time my dad died.

Births: From Family Bible

Name:	Date of Birth:	Notes:
Alexander Wiseman Christie (Agnes’s Grandpa)	June 6, 1839	Elgin, Scotland (Father of the 12 children listed below)
Henrietta Watson (Agnes’s Grandma)	Feb. 1, 1841	Elgin, Scotland (Mother of the 12 children listed below)
Children:
Henrietta W. Christie	May 18, 1863	Aberdeen, Scotland (Aunt Retta, Alex’s mom)
John Christie	March 13, 1865	Jersey City, New Jersey
Maxwell W. Christie	June 2, 1866	Jersey City, New Jersey
Margaret Christie	Aug. 21, 1868	Minneapolis, Minn. (Aunt Maggie)
Willemena Christie	Sept. 23, 1870	Minneapolis, Minn.
Alexander W. Christie	June 24, 1872	Minneapolis, Minn.
James W. Christie	July 2, 1874	Minneapolis, Minn.
Emily M. Christie (Agnes’s Mother)	July 18, 1876	Minneapolis, Minn. (Mom’s mom)
Elizabeth Katherine Christie	Aug. 26, 1878	Minneapolis, Minn.
Grace Davidson Christie	Jan. 26, 1881	Minneapolis, Minn.
William Watson Christie	Nov. 24, 1882	Minneapolis, Minn. (Uncle Will-Evelyn Marshal’s dad)
Lucy Spain Christie	Dec. 13, 1883	Minneapolis, Minn.

Marriages: from the Family Bible:

Names:	Date of Marriage:	Notes:
A.W. Christie & H. Watson (Agne’s grandparents)	April 16, 1861	Aberdeen, Scotland
John W. Stanchfield & Henrietta Christie	November 21, 1889	married at 1803 Clinton Ave.   Minneapolis, Minn.
Margaret W. Christie & Arthur Jeffery	March 5, 1891	married at 1803 Clinton Ave.   Minneapolis, Minn.
Emily M. Christie & John T. Gray (Agne’s parents)	March 6, 1893	married at 1803 Clinton Ave.   Minneapolis, Minn.
Alex W. Christie & Alberta Armstrong	June 27, 1899	married in Minneapolis
James W. Christie & Jess Ogilvie	April 23, 1900	married in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Christie &  Fred Gerard	Jan. 23, 1901	married in Minneapolis
Grace Christie &  Bert Lenon	Nov. 1902	married in Minneapolis
Lucy Christie &  Ed Moffat	Sept. 17, 1907	married at 4031 -9th Ave. N.E.  Seattle, Washington
William W. Christie & Agnes R. Wittman (Evelyn’s parents)	Nov. 6, 1907	married at 310- 11th Ave.  Seattle, Washington

Memoranda: From Family Bible

Alexander Wiseman Christie’s parents:

Father: John Christie	Born 1796-Died 1855 (age 59)	Moorshire, Scotland
Mother: Maxwell Wiseman	Born 1810-Died 1857 (age 47)	Moorshire, Scotland

Henrietta Watson’s parents:

Father: James Watson	Born:1797-Died 1858 (age 62)	Mooreshire, Scotland
Mother: Henrietta Davison*	Born 1804-Died 1858 (age 54)	Mooreshire, Scotland

*(this name was spelled Davison here and later spelled Davidson elsewhere)

Photocopy of the Christie Family and names below. Sketch by Marilyn Bake: Agnes Gray is in the photograph, top row standing on the far right. Her mother Emily is sitting in middle row on the end on left. Agnes’s Grandmother Henrietta Watson Christie is in the middle row in the middle with white hair. She had 12 children. If anyone has the original photograph I would love to add it to the Blog.