Jessie Eliza (Duff) Morison (1806 - 1883)

Born 1806 in Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander (Morison) Morison of Bognie — married 22 Apr 1836 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Died 27 Jul 1883 at about age 77 in Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Jessie Eliza Duff was the daughter of Garden Duff and Louisa Dunbar. She was born in 1806. ^[1]

Jessie married Alexander Morison of Bognie on 22 April 1836 at Turriff.^{[2] [1]} The couple had no children.

Jessie died on 27 July 1883 in Edinburgh. She left an estate valued at £48,160, 5s 2d.

Probate Record:

MORISON, Jessie Duff or.

Value of Estate £48,160, 5s 2d.

27 October, - Confirmation of Jessie Duff or Morison, 12 Randolph Crecent, Edinburgh, widow of Alexander Morison of Bognie, who died 27 July 1883, at Edinburgh, testate, granted at Edinburgh, to Robert George Duff of Wellington Lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight, and Colonel James Duff of Knockleith, Aberdeenshire, her brothers, and Thomas Graham Murray, W.S., Edinburgh, Executors nominated in Will or Deed, dated 17 February 1874, and recorded with other Writs in Court Books of Commissariot of Edinburgh, 23 October 1883. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Tayler, Alistair and Tayler, Henrietta The Book of the Duffs, Edinburgh: William Brown, 1914, pp 251 Available Online (online pp 577.
2. ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTJ5-WJP : 10 February 2018), Alexander Morison and Jessie Duff, 22 Apr 1836; citing Turriff,Aberdeen,Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 993,304.
3. ↑ Scotland, National Probabte Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936, p 446, Record for Jessie Duff Morison, Ancestry Record 60558 #195301

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