Mary Johnstone (1864 - 1917)

Born 29 May 1864 in Gibraltar

Wife of Robert Chalmers — married 21 Aug 1888 in North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Died 11 Jun 1917 at age 53 in North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Mary was born on 29 May 1864 in Gibraltar, the daughter of James Johnstone, a colour sergeant in the Royal Fusiliers, and his wife Eliza Farmer. ^[1] When she was about 8 her parents relocated to Scotland, first to Fort George, Ardersier, Invernessshire, and then to Inverness, where her father was a clerk in the Royal Engineers Dept. ^[2] Mary married Robert Chalmers on 21 August 1888 in North Queensferry, Fife, where she had been working as a domestic servant. ^[3] and they had five children. She died of valvular heart disease in North Queensferry on 11 June 1917, aged only 53. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Gibraltar, St Andrew's Kirk Baptisms Transcription, Find My Past (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fgibraltar%2fbap_1853-1866%2f0015&parentid=gbprs%2fgibraltar%2fbaps%2f00442) (requires subscription)
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. Reels 1-338. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Parish: Inverness; ED: 5; Page: 31; Line: 20; Roll: cssct1881_28 Accessed on ancestry.co.uk, May 2024.
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3. ↑ 1888 JOHNSTONE, MARY (Statutory registers Marriages 432/ 13), Scotland’s People (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/image-viewer/stat_marriages/stat_marriages-5102253_3642604_5102253_3255445 (requires subscription))
4. ↑ 1917 JOHNSTONE, MARY (Statutory registers Deaths 432/ 39), Scotland’s People (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/image-viewer/stat_deaths/stat_deaths-3604036_2923656 (requires subscription))

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