Mary was born in 1860 in Mullaghdoo, Islandmagee, County Antrim, Ireland, the daughter of Alexander Wilson and Jenny Hill. She was baptised on 05-Sep-1860 in 1st Islandmagee Presbyterian Church.[1]
In 1901 she was 40 years old, not married and a seamstress, living with her aunt, Ellen Hill, and other family members in Mullaghdoo.[2]
During the 1911 Census of Ireland, Mary aged 50 was residing in a house 13 in Mullaghdoo (Island Magee, Antrim) with her widowed sister Jenny, and nieces and nephews.[3][4]
Mary passed away on January 22nd, 1937 aged 76.[5] She left a will, and probate was granted to Mary Brown and Elizabeth Mann, married woman.[6] She is interred in the Wilson Family Plot in Ballykeel Graveyard, in Islandmagee. [7]
Sources
↑ 1st Islandmagee Presbyterian Church Baptisms 1829-1914. Transcribed by the North of Ireland Family History Society www.nifhs.org.
↑ General Register Office (Northern Ireland) D/1937/129/1016/12/65 Mary Wilson 22nd January 1937 76 Years Female Larne
↑ Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Will Calendars https://apps.proni.gov.uk/WillsCalendar_IE/WillsSearch.aspx [no image of will available] Wilson Mary of Mullaghdoo Islandmagee county Antrim spinster died 22 January 1937 at Cloughfin county Antrim Probate Belfast 24 February to Mary Brown and Elizabeth Mann married woman. Effects £267 8s. 10d.
↑ Gravestone Inscriptions, County Antrim, Volume 1, Islandmagee. Compiled by George Rutherford (1977).
Erected by Mary Wilson in memory of her father Alexander Wilson who was drowned at sea 8th Nov. 1869 aged 33 years. Her mother Jennie Wilson who died 28th Dec. 1898 aged 61 years. The above named Mary Wilson died 22nd January 1937 aged 76 years.
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