Margaret Anne Urquhart (Simpson) Drummond (1877 - 1976)

Born 6 Nov 1877 in Saint Fergus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Wife of William Drummond — married 7 Jun 1901 in St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died 14 Aug 1976 at age 98 in Banff, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

This profile is part of the Urquhart Name Study.

Margaret (Simpson) Drummond is a member of Clan Urquhart.

Margaret (Simpson) Drummond has Scottish Ancestors.

Margaret (Simpson) Drummond was born in Scotland.

Margaret Anne Urquhart Simpson was born at St. Fergus, Banffshire, Scotland, at 10 pm on the 6th of November 1877, the daughter of Margaret Simpson, an unwed mother, and James Urquhart, who was a shepherd at the time of her birth.^[1]

In 1881, Margaret was living at her maternal grandparents place at St Fergus, Banffshire, Scotland with her siblings and an aunt and cousin.^[2]

James Simpson Male 68 Aberdeenshire

Elspet Simpson Wife Female 66 Banffshire

Sarah Morrison Daughter Female 36 Banffshire

William Simpson Male 10 Banffshire

James Urquhart Male 5 Banffshire

John Simpson Male 4 Banffshire

Margaret Ann Simpson Female 3 Banffshire

Margaret saw her first car when she was 18 years of age.

Maggie Simpson married William Drummond, gamekeeper, at St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the 7th of June 1901.^[3]

They had:

1. William
2. James
3. Florina Margaret
4. Sarah Jane
5. Catherine
6. Bella
7. Alexander Francis
8. Maisie
9. Jack
10. Olive Barclay

Margaret fell over and broke her hip while walking along the cliffs at Banff, after a military jet broke the sound barrier as it passed over the coast. This noise startled her and she was rushed to hospital where she developed pneumonia and passed away on the 14th of August 1976, at Chalmers Hospital, Banff, Scotland.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Scotlands People. (2019). National Records of Scotland. Statutory Birth Registers.;Name: Margaret Ann Urquhart Simpson d/o Margaret Simpson, James was later taken to court to prove Father's name ; Birth; 6th Nov 1877 ;Place: St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire ; Ref: 166/ 47. [online] Available at: Search Accessed 28 Sep. 2019. Document in the personal files of David Urquhart.
2. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMDL-FSJ : 22 July 2019), James Simpson, St Fergus, Banffshire, Scotland; from "1881 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 9, PRO T 1, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 203,442.
3. ↑ Scotland's People Marriage Index: Name: DRUMMOND, WILLIAM & SIMPSON, MAGGIE; Year: 1901; Ref: 237/C 3; Place: St Fergus (Aberdeen) : Digital copy in the personal files of David Urquhart
4. ↑ personal knowledge of David Law sent by email, from him 7 October 2018

• Scotlands People
• Email exchange with David Drummond Law, grandson of Bella

Acknowledgements

David D Law, the grandson of Bella Drummond, who has made contact with me because I uploaded a Register of Corrected Files entry to Ancestry in 2017. A register of corrected files entry occurs when the mother has the fathers name added to birth records.