Hi everyone (anyone?),
I've just finished researching the Steel branch of my ancestry and wondered if anyone could shed some light on something for me.
My 2 x great aunt, Maggie Jane Carruthers Steel, born Maggie Jane Carruthers in 1878 Kirlinton, Cumberland to Elizabeth Carruthers. Her mother married Ephraim Harris Steel in Brampton (February 1881). Elizabeth & Ephraim being my 2 x great grandparents.
On the 1881 census Maggie was listed as Maggie Jane Carruthers, and in 1891 Maggie Jane Steel. In 1900 she married Robert Inglis in Brampton (under the name Maggie Jane Carruthers Steel). They had 3 children - Walter Inglis (1900), Ephraim Harris Inglis (1902) and Elizabeth Agnes Inglis (1905) all born in Stanwix and registered at Carlisle. Robert Inglis died in 1905, shortly after the birth of their daughter.
In 1907 Maggie married James Wilson in Brampton. They had a son, James Gibson Wilson (1908 Brampton) and possibly a daughter, Annie E Wilson (1911 Brampton, mother Steel). My question is this. Both Walter Inglis and Annie Wilson died in 1914 (deaths registered at Brampton Jan-Mar). Does anybody know what happened?
I don't really want to spend money on death certificates, as they are not my direct ancestors, but I would be very interested in the circumstances of their deaths.
Any information would be gratefully received.
Thanks for reading.