Dingwall Family

George Turner Paton was born in Dundee in 1887. He was briefly a mill worker, but volunteered for the navy in 1902 at the age of 15, reaching the rank of Leading Seaman by the time of his death; he was killed in action when his ship, HMS Mary Rose, sank in 1917. During the First World War his brothers Bertie and Joseph were in the British Expeditionary Forces.

George married Mary Crowlie, in 1913, with whom he had two children, Bertie S Paton Jnr, born in 1916, and Mary Rose Paton, known as May, who was born in 1918. May Paton married James Lyall, a relative of her mother's, in 1943 and the couple adopted a son William Crowlie Lyall, who was born in 1944. May died in 1973 and her husband died in 1994. After George's death, Mary married his younger brother, Bertie S Paton Snr, by whom she had two more children, Betsy Stewart Paton, born in 1923 and Martha Kyles Paton, born in 1926. Mary died in 1963.

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