Born in Fenton Barns, near Dirleton, Easth Lothian Scotland where her father was farm steward. Second of 10 children. Domestic servant/nursery maid to the Hope family who ran Fenton Barns, which was a model farm. Emigrated to Canada to join her brother John in 1863.
On her trip across the sea, she was a cabin passenger with Charlotte Hope (daughter of the farm owner who employed her father), on a ship called the "Anglo Saxon" - which went down off Cape Race in Newfoundland - 237 were lost out of 435 passengers). Miraculously, she was among the survivors. However, everything she had brought from Scotland was lost, including the works of a clock whose case later came to Canada with another relative. Never married, lived with various relatives as the maiden aunt who pitched in when babies were born, or someone was sick. Never had a permanent home of her own. Keeping house for her father in Peterborough, Ontario in 1881. At the time she died, living at 3 Spadina in Toronto, with her niece, Catharine Bradshaw, nee Bertram.
On her trip across the sea, she was a cabin passenger with Charlotte Hope (daughter of the farm owner who employed her father), on a ship called the "Anglo Saxon" - which went down off Cape Race in Newfoundland - 237 were lost out of 435 passengers). Miraculously, she was among the survivors. However, everything she had brought from Scotland was lost, including the works of a clock whose case later came to Canada with another relative. Never married, lived with various relatives as the maiden aunt who pitched in when babies were born, or someone was sick. Never had a permanent home of her own. Keeping house for her father in Peterborough, Ontario in 1881. At the time she died, living at 3 Spadina in Toronto, with her niece, Catharine Bradshaw, nee Bertram.
Born in Fenton Barns, near Dirleton, Easth Lothian Scotland where her father was farm steward. Second of 10 children. Domestic servant/nursery maid to the Hope family who ran Fenton Barns, which was a model farm. Emigrated to Canada to join her brother John in 1863.
On her trip across the sea, she was a cabin passenger with Charlotte Hope (daughter of the farm owner who employed her father), on a ship called the "Anglo Saxon" - which went down off Cape Race in Newfoundland - 237 were lost out of 435 passengers). Miraculously, she was among the survivors. However, everything she had brought from Scotland was lost, including the works of a clock whose case later came to Canada with another relative. Never married, lived with various relatives as the maiden aunt who pitched in when babies were born, or someone was sick. Never had a permanent home of her own. Keeping house for her father in Peterborough, Ontario in 1881. At the time she died, living at 3 Spadina in Toronto, with her niece, Catharine Bradshaw, nee Bertram.
On her trip across the sea, she was a cabin passenger with Charlotte Hope (daughter of the farm owner who employed her father), on a ship called the "Anglo Saxon" - which went down off Cape Race in Newfoundland - 237 were lost out of 435 passengers). Miraculously, she was among the survivors. However, everything she had brought from Scotland was lost, including the works of a clock whose case later came to Canada with another relative. Never married, lived with various relatives as the maiden aunt who pitched in when babies were born, or someone was sick. Never had a permanent home of her own. Keeping house for her father in Peterborough, Ontario in 1881. At the time she died, living at 3 Spadina in Toronto, with her niece, Catharine Bradshaw, nee Bertram.
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