Family of John Tait Mathison

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W.E. O'Brien

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Black and white negative of a photograph of John Tait Mathison (seated), his wife Mary Mathison (nee Hobson), and his two children Frank Tait Mathison and Edna Florence Mathison. The photograph was taken in a studio.

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David Mathison (1819-1883) was a tailor in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Agnes Frost in 1846 by whom he had James Tait Mathison (1851-1929). In 1853 David Mathison married Elizabeth Tait (1825-1911) and shortly after the couple came to Whitby where they had six children: Margaret, Jean, Peter William, David, George Tait, and Jessie Christina.

John Tait Mathison was a local sculptor and tombstone maker who was trained by the Wolfenden family of Whitby. In 1886 he opened the Whitby Granite Company which operated for 40 years before it was sold. John married Mary Morris Hobson (1850-1934) in 1878 and they had two surviving children: Edna Florence Mathison (1887-1982) and Frank Tait Mathison (1888-1952).

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