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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 29 March 18 20:49 BST (UK) »
CF, with everything that has been found and just as additional detail. Likely deaths of Mary's sisters:

Catherine Law/McGinty, mother's MS Lavery - death in Glasgow 1976. Aged 81.

Martha Law, no additional surname (single?)  mother's MS Lavery - death in Rutherglen 1981. Aged 89.

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 29 March 18 20:56 BST (UK) »


...when Mary was born and what happened to her after she married in 1924 ...


A possible death?

Mary Law and Taylor surnames, died in Glasgow in 1967, aged 78.

Can't see a third surname for this Mary, so if the correct death entry, guessing she did not remarry.

Given it is a 1967 death, it can be viewed online on SP....or as you are heading to an SP centre soon... ::)

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #29 on: Friday 30 March 18 09:58 BST (UK) »
Try LOW for 1885 marriage ?
ev

Hi ev

I managed to get the record of marriage off SP.  It was indexed as 'LOW' as you indicated but it's quite clearly 'LAW' on the document.

 I've pointed out the error to SP  :o

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Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #30 on: Friday 30 March 18 10:00 BST (UK) »
Have done a quick read through the thread and don't think  the Lavery family have been identified on census

Mary Lavery with her parents and siblings in 1871

Back 46, College Street, Dumbarton
John Lavery, 48, Labourer in iron ship buildyard, b. Ireland
Ellen, 34, b. Ireland
Daniel, 14, rivet heater in iron ship build yard, b.Glasgow
Catherine, 10, b. Ireland
Mary, 8, b. Dumbarton
John, 6, b. -do-
Margaret, 4, b. -do-

Names show in Mary's children - no Ellen/Helen found though.

Also at same address in the  1881. Mary and Catherine are down as Factory workers.

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #31 on: Friday 30 March 18 10:05 BST (UK) »
Thanks Gadget

Everyone is really digging feverishly around the roots of this tree for me and I really appreciate the assistance.

I now need to get my Family Tree Maker updated.

Many thanks RootsChatters  :)

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Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #32 on: Monday 09 April 18 14:51 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone

I've just received information from the University of Stirling Archives and Special Collections relating to Mary's mother.

The Register of Patients in the Stirling District Asylum show Mary was admitted there on 24 September 1895 on the recommendation of two Medical Practitioners: Richard Allan L.R.C.Ph.G and John Robertson M.D., authorised by Francis Gebbie, Esq., Sheriff Substitute of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannan.  The admission record shows she was aged 32, a Pauper, very weak, appeared in a puerperal state and suffering from acute mania.

It would seem husband James Law managed to cope for only a further year after his wife's admission to the Asylum before he too committed suicide leaving the four children effectively orphaned.

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Aye mair questions than answers in a world where the past was a different place - that cannae be revisited!

Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #33 on: Monday 09 April 18 16:05 BST (UK) »
'puerperal state'

Just checked back for Catherines Birth record - born 2nd March 1895. James was the informant.   Poor Mary would have possibly suffered Post Natal Depression   :-\


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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #34 on: Monday 09 April 18 19:13 BST (UK) »
Catherine born 2nd March 1895. James was the informant.  Poor Mary would have possibly suffered Post Natal Depression
Gadget

Hi Gadget

The lady who passed the information to me also said, "Apparently a ‘puerperal state’ was believed to be a specific form of mania that accompanied the state of pregnancy."

Today I've picked up the 1930 Register of Marriage, from SP, for the daughter Catherine to a William McGinty.  I think she died in Glasgow 1976.  I still have the other two daughters Martha and Maggie to find although I think Martha's death in Rutherglen in 1981 is on SP.  I have to check them out in Edinburgh though.

Following from the three marriages I have found - all in Roman Catholic Churches - I assume the family followed that faith so two suicides would be unforgivable in the eyes of their Church.

All in all it's been a sad wee story to follow through.

Chiad Fhear
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Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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Re: Mary Lavery Law : born abt 1891
« Reply #35 on: Monday 09 April 18 19:32 BST (UK) »
Diagnoses in those days were not always accurate but one wonders how much  the poverty, 4 children, etc. made everything worse  :'(

This from Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis
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