William Whitehead Hope (1854-1919) of the Hope Family of West Calder founded W.W. Hope & Sons tailoring/clothing business in Falkirk.
Family lines that are known to have emigrated are shown thus:
Canada
Hope Family of Falkirk
Descendants of William Whitehead Hope and Maggie Meikle
(Updated 20-11-2009)
2 Generations.
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM WHITEHEAD6 HOPE (WILLIAM5, JAMES4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1) was born 27-10-1854 in West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland, and died 22-05-1919 in Strathallan,Rennie Street, Falkirk, Scotland.. He met (1) MARGARET (MAGGIE) MEIKLE 27-04-1880 in Polmont Hill Farm, Polmont, Scotland, daughter of ROBERT MEIKLE and JANET DOUGAL. She was born 28-08-1859 in Meigle, Perthshire, and died 29-04-1911 in Falkirk.. He married (2) MARGARET MAGILLERY 25-03-1914 in Adrian House,Falkirk, Scotland, daughter of HENRY DRAPER and MARY DRAPER. She was born 1861, and died 1938 in Falkirk, Scotland..
Children of WILLIAM HOPE and MARGARET MEIKLE are:
i. WILLIAM7 HOPE, b. 14-10-1880, Polmont, Scotland.; d. 04-12-1885, Polmont, Scotland..
2. ii. ROBERT MEIKLE HOPE, b. 23-09-1882, Polmont, Scotland.; d. 03-08-1952, Falkirk, Scotland..
3. iii. JAMES HOPE, b. 16-07-1884, Falkirk; d. 27-10-1938, Edmonton, Alberta,Canada.
4. iv. JOHN MEIKLE HOPE, b. 19-06-1886, Falkirk, Scotland.; d. 05-06-1958, Royal Infirmary Stirling. Scotland..
v. JESSIE DOUGAL HOPE, b. 10-01-1889, Falkirk, Scotland.; d. 27-10-1980, Falkirk, Scotland.(Spinster).
5. vi. ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM HOPE, b. 31-10-1890, Rennie Street, Falkirk, Scotland.; d. 17-10-1958, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Generation No. 2
2. ROBERT MEIKLE7 HOPE (WILLIAM WHITEHEAD6, WILLIAM5, JAMES4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1) was born 23-09-1882 in Polmont, Scotland., and died 03-08-1952 in Falkirk, Scotland.. He met JESSIE SARAH MCKINNIE 1908 in Falkirk, daughter of WILLIAM MCKINNIE and JANE RUSSELL. She was born 05-08-1880 in Falkirk, and died 17-01-1947 in Falkirk.
Child of ROBERT HOPE and JESSIE MCKINNIE is:
i. WILLIAM LESLIE8 HOPE, b. 1910, Bath, England.; d. 27-08-1934, Falkirk.
3. JAMES7 HOPE (WILLIAM WHITEHEAD6, WILLIAM5, JAMES4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1) was born 16-07-1884 in Falkirk, and died 27-10-1938 in Edmonton, Alberta,Canada. He met ELLEN FLORENCE MAGGS 04-07-1919 in Canada, daughter of JOSEPH MAGGS and ANNE BINDON. She was born 05-09-1898 in Bristol, England., and died 03-08-1973 in Victoria, BC. Canada.
Children of JAMES HOPE and ELLEN MAGGS are:
i. ELIZABETH ANN8 HOPE, b. 15-01-1922, Canada; d. 28-04-1982; m. RONALD WILLIAM HENRY MCLEAN, 08-12-1945, Canada; b. 25-01-1915; d. 03-05-1983.
ii. GEORGE ALEXANDER HOPE, b. 12-01-1925, Vermilion, Alberta, Canada.; d. 28-11-1995, Tsawwassen, BC. Canada; m. Living Person
iii. ROBERT JAMES HOPE, b. 09-09-1927; d. 14-10-1985; m. Living person
(Living descendants in Canada)
4. JOHN MEIKLE7 HOPE (WILLIAM WHITEHEAD6, WILLIAM5, JAMES4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1) was born 19-06-1886 in Falkirk, Scotland., and died 05-06-1958 in Royal Infirmary Stirling. Scotland.. He met LOUISE (LOUISA) CATHERINE O'DONNALL DILLON 29-08-1914 in St. Xavier's Chapel, Falkirk, Scotland, daughter of HUGH DILLON and AGNES LYNCH. She was born 26-10-1884 in 5 Pleasance, Falkirk, and died 01-11-1943 in Falkirk.
Children of JOHN HOPE and LOUISE DILLON are:
i. AGNES MARGARET MARY8 HOPE, b. 23-04-1915, "Craiglea" Ashbrooke Whitley & Monkseaton, Tynemouth, Northumberland.; d. 06-03-1994; m. DAVID HUNTER MELDRUM, 15-06-1943, St Francis Xaviers Chapel Church, Falkirk; b. 14-02-1916, Forfar; d. 26-05-1988.
ii. JOHN FREDERICK HOPE, b. 27-01-1921; d. 12-06-1928.
(Living descendants in Scotland and Abu Dhabi)
5. ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM7 HOPE (WILLIAM WHITEHEAD6, WILLIAM5, JAMES4, JOHN3, CHARLES2, JOHN1) was born 31-10-1890 in Rennie Street, Falkirk, Scotland., and died 17-10-1958 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. He met ROBINA RENNIE BROWN 10-09-1923 in Free Church of Scotland, Calcutta, India, daughter of JOHN BROWN and ROBINA RENNIE. She was born 15-12-1901 in Neilson Street, Falkirk, Scotland., and died 28-03-1992 in Lutterworth, England..
Children of ALEXANDER HOPE and ROBINA BROWN are:
i. WILLIAM ALEXANDER8 HOPE, b. 17-03-1926, Patnar Jhora Tea Estate, Salihat P.O., Jalpaiguri, India; d. 17-08-2005, Eagle Nursing Home, Lincoln, England..
ii. Living Person
iii. Living Person
(Living descendants in Scotland and England.)
.For more about Maggie Meikle see Meikles and Dougals page. (She appears in Meikle family No 2.)
Water colour painting of W.W. Hope 1854-1919.
Painted by the Scottish artist William W. Kerr RSA in 1908.
Margaret (Maggie) Meikle 1859-1911.
Photograph c1905.
Photograph taken in about 1894 of W.W. Hope and Maggie Meikle's family - John, Jessie, James, Robert with Alexander at the front.
William Whitehead Hope founded the firm of W.W. Hope and Sons at No 138 High Street in Falkirk. William also rented a house at 138A High Street this was in addition to the large house that he owned in Rennie Street next to Falkirk School. There was a drapers shop selling accessories such as hats, gloves, scarves etc on the south side of the High Street with a ladies and gentlemen's tailoring business on the opposite side of the street.The three elder sons helped in the family business. In the 1901 census Robert aged 18 is a Tailor's Cutter, James aged 16 a Drapers Assistant and John aged 14 a Tailor's Apprentice. Jessie and Alexander were still at school. James and Alexander took off for Canada and India respectively. Robert and John continued in the family business with Robert specialising in ladies tailoring and John dealt with the men. W.W. Hope died in 1919 and the two sons inherited the business. Sometime around 1930 Robert resigned from the business and became a gentleman farmer. It would appear that the business never fully recovered from this episode and sometime in the 1930s the drapers shop was sold. John continued the tailoring business until the mid 1950s when the business was wound up on his death in 1958.
The labels on the left are from suits tailored by John Meikle Hope.
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