Hugh Mooney Bathgate
- Born: 5 Aug 1895, Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom 2 3 4
- Marriage: Annabella MacLean on 30 Apr 1920 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom 1
- Died: 16 Oct 1951, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom aged 56 2
- Buried: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
 General Notes:
Born at 1am at 2 East Shore Street, Buckhaven.
Died at High Beveridgewell, Dunfermline.
Noted events in his life were:
• Home address, 31 Mar 1901, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. 5 159 Baldridgeburn
• Home address, 24 Mar 1929, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. 6 61 Muir Road, Townhill
• Employment, 24 Mar 1929. 6 Bread vanman
Hugh married Annabella MacLean, daughter of Murdo MacLean and Catherine McIver, on 30 Apr 1920 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.1 (Annabella MacLean was born on 16 Feb 1896 in Achgarve, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland, United Kingdom,2 7 8 9 died on 31 Jan 1990 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom and was buried in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom 10.)
Marriage Notes:
FURTHER MARRIAGE DETAILS:
Place of marriage: Dunfermline Abbey Manse
Marriage registered on 3 May 1920.
RECOLLECTIONS OF SHEILA FAIRBAIRN (DAUGHTER), BASED ON WHAT HER MOTHER (ANNABELLA) HAD TOLD HER
Hugh and Annabella originally met during the years of the first world war at the Fife Mining Institute in Cowdenbeath. Annabella was trained in engineering (for shell manufacture) and worked in Coventry for part of the war. Hugh was seriously wounded in the war and he was possibly at the Institute being re-trained. This first encounter did not go well. The young male students frequently played tricks on the girls. Hugh played a trick on Annabella, which she did not find amusing and refused to speak to him thereafter.
A few years later Annabella was working as a nanny for a Sheila Scobie on Park Avenue, Dunfermline. One day, she was posting a letter at the end of the street and Hugh was passing. He asked if she was the young Irish(!) girl, she said "yes", and he asked her out on a date to the pictures. Annabella wasn't keen, but Mrs Scobie persuaded her it might be fun. She had arranged to meet Hugh at the end of the street. However, when she got there she couldn't remember what he looked like and there were two men in the vicinity. Fortunately, Hugh looked up before what might have been an embarrassing exchange.
However, all was not plain sailing. The two had a slightly stormy relationship at times. After one night out Hugh returned home tight-lipped and his sisters assumed the courting was no more. However, one evening Hugh climbed the gate at Park Avenue and knocked at the back door. Annabella answered it and asked "What are you doing here?". He answered (factually), "I climbed over the gate". And, history demonstrates, that was deemed sufficient by Annabella! 11
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