David Kellie  1881 – 1915

David Kellie was only five days old when he was referenced in the 1881 Scottish Census. He was the son of John Kelly (sic) and Elizabeth Walker. John Kelly was a dairyman and hailed from Ireland. His wife was a local woman from Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway. They had married in 1873.

Kellie was living in Coxhoe in 1901 with his mother and three sisters, Mary, Caroline, and Nellie. Two nephews, Norman and David Robson, were also in the house at the time of the Census.

The Robsons would later be found living in Pond Street, in Shincliffe, in 1911. They were the sons of Margaret, the second oldest of the Kellie children.  Another grandson, Lionel Kellie, was with his grandmother in 1911. He would go on to be a student teacher at Shincliffe C of E and forge a career in the profession.

David Kellie married Mary Ann Charlton Dixon and they had a daughter, Marjorie, born in 1909. He was working as a coke drawer in 1911 and the couple were living in Coxhoe. He joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and was killed in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in Turkey on 9^th August 1915.

David's widow returned to the Chester-le-Street area for the 1939 Register. Marjorie married William Taylor, a driver for the Co-op. They, too, lived in Chester-le-Street.

David’s sister Mary was to be found living in Quality Street in Shincliffe in 1939. Caroline

married Joseph Rennison in 1930. He was a shepherd and they were living near Alnwick in 1939. Nellie died in 1975 and is buried in Nottingham. Their mother, Elizabeth, died in 1936.

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