Isabella Shields

   Cause of her death was Congestion of Lungs (5 days).

   Other names for Isabella were Isobel Shields and Isabella Shiels.

  Noted events in her life were:

• AKA: Isobel Sheilds, 1826.

• She had a residence in Dec 1836 in Fullerton, Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland.

• She appeared on the census in 1841 in Mains Of Fullarton, Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 34) living with her husband William Shepherd (35, journeyman gardener), children Jane (10), Peter (7), John (4) and James (1), and her mother Jannet Ogilvie (50).

• She appeared on the census in 1851 in 70 Wellington Row, Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. Recorded (aged 45) living with husband William and sons John (14) and James (11).

• She worked as a Jute Weaver in 1861.

• She appeared on the census in 1861 in Washington, Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. Recorded (aged 54) living with husband William (57) and son Peter (27) in a house with 2 windowed rooms.

• She appeared on the census in 1871 in Washington, Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. Recorded (aged 66) living with husband William in a house with two windowed rooms. Next door was their son John, daughter-in-law Euphemia, and grandchildren Jane and Robert.

• She had a residence in Apr 1880 in Washington, Meigle, Perth, Scotland.

• She was ill with lung congestion in Apr 1880.

Isabella married William Shepherd, son of John Shepherd and Agnes Jack, on 10 Sep 1826 in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. (William Shepherd was born in Aug 1803 in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland, christened on 24 Aug 1803 in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland and died on 23 Feb 1876 in Washington, Meigle, Perth, Scotland.) The cause of his death was Paralysis (2 days).

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They had marriage banns published on 10 Sep 1826 in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. That William Shepherd and Isobel Shields both in this Parish were contracted in order to marriage and married.