Daniel Masterton (1878-1903)

Daniel Masterton (1878-1903)

Tailor

Daniel Masterton, tailor, was born in Dunfermline, Fife and in 1901 is recorded as having travelled to New York through Ellis Island. He died suddenly in 1903 at the age of 25 after having been found beside the railway near Kelty in Fife. He died soon afterwards.

Genealogy

Daniel Masterton was the fifth of seven children (six of them boys) born to Daniel Masterton, joiner and farmer, and Jane Hutton Stewart, who had married in 1870 in Dunfermline, Fife. Daniel Masterton belongs to the large group of Mastertons that originated in the Culross area. Fuller details of his extended family can be found at this link.

ACCIDENT AT KELTY. - Yesterday morning a man was found in an unconscious condition on the railway near Kelty. He was suffering from concussion of the brain, and one of his hands had been cut off. It was ascertained that the man, who was removed to the Dunfermline Cottage Hospital, was Daniel Masterton, tailor, Kelty.

The Scotsman
29th June, 1903

FATAL RESULT OF ACCIDENT AT DUNFERMLINE. - Daniel Masterton, tailor, Blairmill Farm, Ballingry, who was found injured and in an unconscious state on the railway at Kelty on Sunday, has died in the Dunfermline Cottage Hospital.

The Scotsman
30th June, 1903