Isabella Cumming

   Cause of her death was Old Age. Indefinite.

   Another name for Isabella was Mrs Isabelle Steele.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the census in 1841 in Waterside Row, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 25) living with husband John and children Isabella (2) and Betty (2m).

• She appeared on the census in 1851 in Townhead, Cumming's Land, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 35) living with husband John and children Margaret (15), Isabel (12), Betty (10), Jean (8), George (6), Archibald (4), Agnes (2) and Janet (3m).

• She worked as a Pirn Winder in 1861.

• She appeared on the census in 1861 in North Town End, East Strathaven, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire. Recorded living with her husband John (55) and children George (16), Archibald (14), Agnes (12), John (7) and Isabella (5) in a house with 2 windowed rooms.

• She worked as a Cotton Weaver in 1871.

• She appeared on the census in 1871 in Flemington, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 56) as widowed head of the household living on her own in a house with one windowed room.

• She appeared on the census in 1881 in Flemington, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 65) as a widowed housewife (weavers) living with her grand-daughter Agnes L Steel (7, not at school) and boarders Robert Carson (8, scholar), James Lindsay (10, scholar), Mary Lindsay (11, scholar) and Helen Walker (6, not at school).

• She worked as a Silk Winder in 1891 in Fore-Row, Flemingsland, Flemington, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

• She appeared on the census in 1891 in Fore-Row, Flemingsland, Flemington, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded as a widowed Silk Winder (76) living with her grand-daughter Agnes S Loudon (17), in a house with one windowed room.

• She appeared on the census in 1901 in 4, Upstairs Left, Pinkerton Buildings, Westquarter, Glassford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 85) as an invalid living with her grand-daughter Agnes (27), Agnes' husband Robert Hutchison (31), and their children Isabella, Elizabeth and George.

• She was ill with invalidity from 1901 to 1903.

Isabella married John Steel, son of George Steel and Betsy Frew. (John Steel was born circa 1807 in East Kilbride, Scotland and died on 12 Feb 1870 in Flemington, Strathaven, Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland.)