Mary Erskine

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the census in 1881 in 8 Ettrick Road, Kilmeny, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland. Recorded (aged 45) living with her husband John Forrest (53, gardener to Jessie Cunningham) 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). Another visitor was her husband's sister's husband's daughter, Susan Hutchie (15).

Mary married John Forrest, son of Unknown and Unknown. (John Forrest was born in 1828 in Uphall, West Lothian, Scotland.)