John Hutchison married Helen Cochrane at High Drummore, Kirkmaiden on 2 January 1884. At the time of his marriage, John was a Draper at 43 Hyde Road, Manchester. After their marriage the couple took up residence in Manchester where their son, John Hutchison was born in 1885.
The family returned to Wigtownshire where a second son, William Cochrane Hutchison, was born, at High Drummore in 1905.
John took over Low Drummore from his brother, James – according to the 1911 census.
His son John (age 28), married Margaret Reid Anderson (23) on 6 August 1913. Her parents were Hotel Keepers at Drummore. By this time son John had assumed responsibilty for the farm at Drummore.
Following the death of John (the father) in 1920, his second son William Cochrane Hutchison (accompanied by his widowed mother, Helen), emigrated to New Zealand. In 1935 they were listed in the NZ Electoral Roll as resident in Gisborne.
William enlisted in the 104 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Sergeant William Cochrane Hutchison (40793) was killed in action at El Alamein, Egypt on 15 July 1942, age 37. He is remembered in the Alamein Memorial (Column 266). The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery.
The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria in Egypt and Benghazi in Libya. It was a campaign of manoeuvre and movement, the objectives being the control of the Mediterranean, the link with the east through the Suez Canal, the Middle East oil supplies and the supply route to Russia through Persia.
He left his wife and daughter Helen Cochrane Hutchison (born Gisborne 1914).
Helen Cochrane Hutchison married Walter Lewis Wells,a Wool Classer, ( born 18 August 1912, died 23 October 1992, Gisborne). No issue found.
See Williams Ancestry family Tree.
