Harrower Family Tree » Janet Isabella Thomson (1842-1897)

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1. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com, 1916 Record for Andrew Leitch

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   
   Inscription
   
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   In memory of Isabella Thomson wife of Andrew Leitch who died 12th July 1897 aged 56 years.
   Also of their son Charles Arthur who died May 1884 aged 8 years.
   Also of the above Andrew Leitch J.P. who died 10th May 1916 aged 75 years.
   Also of their son Thomas Thomson 7th Canadians wounded in France, died in Canada 21st May 1917 aged 49 years.
   Also their grandson Follett Hallett Holt lieutenant Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry killed in France 22nd August 1918 aged 20 years.
   Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
   
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   Family burial ground Andrew Leitch, Newport, Fife
   
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   Also of their daughter Annie Wilson who died at Boscastle, Cornwall 27th October 1928.
   And of their son Andrew who died at Cowichan Station, Vancouver Island 12th February 1936.
   Also of their son Frederick who died at Buenos Aires 30th November 1940.
   Also of their son James Thomson who died at Buenos Aires 18th June 1949 aged 83 years.
   
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   Also of their eldest daughter Eliza Robertson wife of Sir Follett Holt K.B.E. who died 30th January 1949 aged 87 years.
   And of their son John David Leitch who died 22nd June 1952 aged 79 years.
   Also of their daughter Mary Isabella Niven who died 1953 aged 81 years.
   And of their son George Alexander Leitch who died 25th September 1953 aged 72 years. Burnham, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
   
   Gravesite Details
   
   The memorial is a square column with inscriptions on front, right and left sides. A finial is sitting upright on the ground on the right side. The site is outlined by a grave curb filled with gravel.

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2. 1881 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 3; Page: 36; Line: 18; Roll: CSSCT1881_120 1881 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1881 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 3/4 April 1881. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 39
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabella Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
   Registration Number: 431
   Registration district: Forgan
   Civil parish: Forgan
   County: Fife
   Address: Hillcrest
   Occupation: Ship Owner & Coal Merchant
   ED: 3
   Household schedule number: 182
   Line: 18
   Roll: CSSCT1881_120
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 39 Head
   Isabella Leitch 39 Wife
   Elizabeth R Leitch 19 Daughter
   Wilson Leitch 10 Daughter
   Mary Leitch 8 Daughter
   John T Leitch 7 Son
   Fred T Leitch 6 Son
   Charles A Leitch 3 Son
   George A Leitch 3 Mo Son
   Mary Marshall 25 Servant
   Mary Morrison 26 Servant

3. 1891 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 3; Page: 34; Line: 10; Roll: CSSCT1891_132 1891 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1891 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 5/6 April 1891. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 49
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabella Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermilne, Fife
   Registration Number: 431
   Registration district: Forgan
   Civil parish: Forgan
   County: Fife
   Address: Hill Crest
   Occupation: Ship Owner
   ED: 3
   Household schedule number: 157
   Line: 10
   Roll: CSSCT1891_132
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 49 Head
   Isabella Leitch 49 Wife
   Fred Leitch 15 Son
   George Leitch 10 Son
   Wilson Leitch 20 Daughter
   Mary Leitch 19 Daughter
   Jessie Sturrock 26 Servant
   JT Leitch 22 Son

4. 1851 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Thomas Thomson Parish: Dunfermline; ED: 6A; Page: 3; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1851_87; Year: 1851 1851 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1851 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 30/31 March 1851. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Thomas Thomson
   Name: Thomas Thomson
   Age: 34
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1817
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse: Elizabeth Thomson
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Cults, Fife
   Parish Number: 424
   Civil Parish: Dunfermline
   Town: Netherbeath
   County: Fife
   Address: Netherbeath
   Occupation: Labourer
   ED: 6A
   Page: 3
   Household Schedule Number: 5
   Line: 1
   Roll: CSSCT1851_87
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Thomas Thomson 34
   Elizabeth Thomson 34
   Cxtren Thomson 14
   Margret Thomson 12
   Isabella Thomson 9
   Agness Thomson 7
   James Thomson 5
   John Thomson 2
   Elizabeth Thomson 5 Mo
   William Ropith 16
   Thomas Davidson 20
   Michal Vale 21

5. 1871 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Monifieth; ED: 4; Page: 18; Line: 22; Roll: CSSCT1871_57 1871 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1871 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 2/3 April 1871. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Andrew Leitch
   Name: Andrew Leitch
   Age: 29
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Head
   Spouse's Name: Isabell Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Where born: Dunfermline, Fife
   Registration Number: 310
   Registration district: Monifieth
   Civil parish: Monifieth
   County: Angus
   Address: East Brock Street
   Occupation: Coalmerchant
   ED: 4
   Household schedule number: 101
   Line: 22
   Roll: CSSCT1871_57
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Andrew Leitch 29 Head
   Isabell Leitch 29 Wife
   Robert Leitch 11 Son
   Eliza R Leitch 9 Daughter
   Andrew Leitch 7 Son
   James T Leitch 4 Son
   Thomas T Leitch 2 Son
   Annie W Leitch 11 Mo Daughter
   Annie Ellis 17 Servant

6. Scotland, Select Marriages, Ancestry.com, 1561-1910, Ancestry.com, 1859 Record for Andrew Leitch & Isabella Thomson Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

   Record for Andrew Leitch & Isabella Thomson
   Name: Andrew. Leitch
   Gender: Male
   Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1859
   Marriage Place: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
   Spouse: Isabella Thomson
   FHL Film Number:280225
   

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7. 1861 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Isabella Leitch Parish: Cupar; ED: 2; Page: 10; Line: 8; Roll: CSSCT1861_54 1861 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1861 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 7/8 April 1861. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online.

   Record for Isabella Leitch
   Name: Isabella Leitch [Isabella Thomson]
   Age: 19
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
   Relationship: Daughter
   Father's Name: Thomas Thomson
   Mother's Name: Elizabeth Thomson
   Gender: Female
   Where born: Falkland, Fife
   Registration Number: 420
   Registration district: Cupar
   Civil parish: Cupar
   Town: Cupar
   County: Fife
   Address: 33 Bonnygate
   ED: 2
   Household schedule number: 37
   Line: 8
   Roll: CSSCT1861_54
   Household Members Age Relationship
   Thomas Thomson 44 Head
   Elizabeth Thomson 44 Wife
   Catherine Thomson 24 Daughter
   Agnes Thomson 17 Daughter
   James Thomson 15 Son
   John Thomson 12 Son
   Elizabeth Thomson 10 Daughter
   Isabella Leitch 19 Daughter
   Robert Leitch 1 Grandson

8. Shareholder, Great Western Railway shareholders 1835-1932
9. Scotlands People - Statutory Registers of Deaths (from 1855), 1897 LEITCH, ISABELLA (Statutory registers Deaths 334/ 11) 1897 THOMSON, ISABELLA Statutory registers Corrected Entries 33400 001 43

   1897 LEITCH, ISABELLA (Statutory registers Deaths 334/ 11)
   Deaths in the Parish of Blair Atholl in the County of Perth 1897.
   Isabella Leitch
   (Married to Andrew Leitch, Shipowner)
   1897 Tweifth July 1hrs : 0m : PM
   Struan Inn, Parish of Blair Atholl F. 55 years
   Parents: Thomas Thomson
   Farmer (deceased)
   Eliza Thomson
   M.S. Robertson (deceased)
   COD: Compound fracture of right leg and compound fracture of base of skull & frontal bone, Meningitis
   As Cert by John Anderson
   MB Pitlochry
   Inf. Andrew Leitch
   Husband, Newport, Fife
   Registered
   1897 12th July, Blair Atholl
   And. Kellock
   Registrar
   
   1897 THOMSON, ISABELLA Statutory registers Corrected Entries 33400 001 43
   Isabella Thomson or Leitch, married
   On 12th July 1897 in Struan Inn, Struan, occupied by Margaret Gow
   COD: Fracture of Skull
   3rd August 1897 Blair Atholl

10. 1901 Scotland Census Ancestry.com, Record for Andrew Leitch Parish: Forgan; ED: 4; Page: 15; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1901_139 1901 Scotland Census [Ancestry.com] The 1901 Census for Scotland was taken on the night of 31 March/1 April 1901. The following information was requested: place, name, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, gender, profession, birthplace, and whether blind, deaf, and dumb. Database online

    Record for Andrew Leitch
    Name: Andrew Leitch
    Age: 59
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
    Relationship: Head
    Gender: Male
    Where born: Scotland, Dunfermline
    Registration Number: 431
    Registration district: Forgan
    Civil parish: Forgan
    County: Fife
    Address: Netherlea
    Occupation: Steam Ship Marager
    ED: 4
    Household schedule number: 83
    Line: 19
    Roll: CSSCT1901_139
    Household Members Age Relationship
    Andrew Leitch 59 Head
    Thomas T Leitch 33 Son
    George A Leitch 20 Son
    Cathrine Mcdonald 25 Servant
    Matilda Ramsay 19 Servant
    Johan Hunter 48 Servant

11. Web Site Information, Andrew Leitch of Netherlea Hospital, Dundee Loch Line Shipping Co.

    About Andrew Leitch of Netherlea Hospital, Dundee Loch Line Shipping Co.
    Netherlea was built as a domestic villa, for the local shipowner, Andrew Leitch, in about 1893 to designs by the Dundee architect Thomas Martin Cappon. It is a large red sandstone building in simple Tudor style, of two storeys and attics, with stick on half-timbering in the gables.
    Extract from the 25-inch OS map surveyed in 1893. Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland
    Andrew Leitch was a prominent figure in Dundee, and was particularly associated with the development of the harbour. Born in Fife, he started out as a colliery clerk, later moving to Dundee as the agent for Halbeath Colliery. From there he progressed to being a coal merchant, then exporter, also establishing the Dundee Loch Line Steam Shipping Company. He married in 1859 Isabella Thomson, with whom he had eleven children. She died, at Struan Inn, Banks of Garry, following a carriage accident in July 1897. Andrew Leitch remarried when he was sixty years old in 1902. His second wife, Janet Elizabeth née Smith, became a notable local figure, a supporter of women’s rights, the National Union of Women Workers and many philanthropic causes. She was also the first woman to be elected to the local School Board in Newport. She died in 1913, and her husband outlived her by just three years.
    In 1917 the contents of the house were auctioned, at that time the house comprised: drawing-room, parlour, dining room, billiard room and hall, 10 bed and dressing-rooms, as well as laundry and kitchen apartments. By 1931, Netherlea was the home of Mr G. L. Wilson, a member of the Cupar Liberal Club, but by 1936 was the home of David Hamilton Brackenridge, who, like Leitch, was a member of the Dundee Harbour Trust. Brackenridge was born in Cupar in 1871, and was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, and Dundee High School. He spent 21 years in Calcutta as representative of the Dundee jute merchants, J. C. Duffus & Company. On his return from India, he became the local agent for Duffus. He died at Netherlea in January 1939 and a month later his widow had put the house up for sale. The accommodation was listed as comprising: on the ground floor, four public rooms, billiard room, cloakroom and lavatory, kitchen and usual offices; on the first floor, five bedrooms, two bathrooms and maids’ sitting-room and bathroom; on the second floor, three maids’ bedrooms and box room. It also had a modern garage, greenhouse and outhouses, was in excellent condition, electrically fitted throughout, and the grounds tastefully laid out.
    Presumably the house failed to find a buyer, the contents were sold about a year later, but in 1945 Netherlea was offered to Fife County Council, and its future as a hospital discussed by the Public Health Committee. Before then, during the Second World War, it had been occupied by officers of the Norwegian Air Force. It became a maternity hospital under the NHS with 17 beds, an isolation room and nursery, plus 13 staff bedrooms, the conversion to a hospital was carried out by the architect Frank Pride, of Walker and Pride to plans drawn up in 1946.
    Although officially opened on 21 July 1948, by the end of September it had yet to admit any expectant mothers. Lieutenant Colonel Noel Baxter of New Gilston, the county convenor for the East Fife Hospital Group Board of Management, visited the hospital expecting it to be up and running and was shocked to find this was not the case. Although Netherlea had a doctor, matron and nursing staff, it could not open to patients because there was no cook. Until one could be appointed, patients were being sent to Dundee, Perthshire or even Edinburgh – ‘all over the shop’ according to the County Medical Officer of Health. It opened not very long afterwards, presumably once a suitable cook had been found.
    In 1974 Netherlea became a long-stay hospital for the elderly. Designated a community hospital in 1997, it closed in 2011. I’m afraid I can’t post photographs yet of Netherlea, as I can’t find one that is in the public domain – but if you follow the link to the Courier article, there is a photograph there, which also turns up searching on Google images.
    Sources: Dundee Advertiser, 3 Feb 1893, p.5: St Andrew’s Citizen, 17 July 1897, p.8: Dundee Evening Telegraph, 10 May 1916, p.2; 4 June 1936, p.5; 30 Jan 1939, p.5, 4 Sept 1945, p.8: Dundee People’s

Historical events

• Day of marriage March 29, 1859
• Day of death July 12, 1897

Same birth/death day

• Also died on July 12

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