John Forrest

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census in 1881 in 8 Ettrick Road, Kilmeny, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland.

• He worked as a Gardener in 1881 in 8 Ettrick Road, Kilmeny, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland. Recorded as John Forrest (53, gardener to Jessie Cunningham) living with wife Mary (45) and daughter Marion (15). Also in the house were Jessie Cunningham (widow, 61, head of household), her sister Margaret Jamieson (63), her daughters Elizabeth Cunningham (24) and Jessie Cunningham (27), her son John Cunningham (25, commercial clerk seed merchant), servants Jessie Craig (38, table maid), Jane Muir (36, housemaid) and Jane Young (40, cook) as well as visitor Charles Hilary (26, Col. Tins Fancy Stationery). Also in the house was his sister's husband's daughter Susan Hutchie (15).

John married Mary Erskine. (Mary Erskine was born in 1836 in Polmont, Linlithgowshire, Scotland.)