Margaret (Steuart) Jackson (abt. 1758 - 1810)

Wife of William Jackson — married about 30 Nov 1776 in Calcutta, India

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Died 9 Dec 1810 at about age 52 in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Biography

Margaret Steuart married William Jackson in Calcutta in 1776.^[1]

Margaret's husband died in Calcutta on the 24th August 1897.^[2]

After removing to Scotland, Margaret Jackson née Steuart died at Edinburgh on the 9th December 1810, aged fifty-two years. Her body was buried in the Coltness Tomb.^[3][4]

Research note

• The estimated year of birth is inferred from the age recorded at death in the burial register.^[4]
• Estimated date of marriage:—The parish register recorded the month and year in which the wedding was solemnized, but not the specific date.^[1]
• Steuart of Coltness:—The fact of Margaret Steuart's burial in the Coltness Tomb suggests very strongly a relationship to the Steuarts of Coltness. However, the reference to the Coltness Tomb in the parish register of Edinburgh is somewhat ambiguous. The Coltness Tomb is situated 35 miles southwest in the choir of the old kirk at Cambusnethan, and was the traditional burying place for the Coltness Steuarts (a cadet branch of the house of Allanton) until it was sealed up in the mid-19th century.^[5] There were also a number of Coltness Steuarts buried in Greyfriars' Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Thus it may have been the cases, that Margaret's body was interred in a crypt in the Steuart burying ground at Greyfriars.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} British India Office. Ecclesiastical Returns. “1776 Fort William 20th March Account of Marriages Christenings and Burials in Calcutta JC Talbot No. 55 Rec’d JC Talbot 24th Octr 1776 / An Extract of Marriages Christenings &ra from the Register [—] Calcutta for 1776 261 / Nov’r 1776 Mr William Jackson Attorney at Law & Miss Margaret Stewart.” Digital image online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick by subscription, 2018-08-08).
2. ↑ The Scots Magazine, 1 May 1808 (pg 78). Death notice: “Deaths. … Aug. 24 [1807]. At Calcutta, William Jackson, Esq. Register of the Supreme Court of Judicature, one of the attornies of the said court, and attorney to the Hon. East India Company.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-08).
3. ↑ Perthshire Courier, 17 December 1810 (pg 4). Death notice: “At her house, Howe street, on 9th December, Mrs Margaret Jackson, relict of William Jackson, late of Calcutta.” Digital image online at The British Newspaper Archive, britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk (accessed by subscription, and transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick 2018-08-08).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Church of Scotland. Old Parish Records. Burial: “Mrs Margaret Jackson, Aged 52, Buried December 12 [1810] in Coltnes’s Tomb.” NRS ref. parish 685/1 (Edinburgh), ref. 990/137, pg. 134 [137] of 422. Digital image online at ScotlandsPeople, hosted by National Records of Scotland, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (register entry purchased by Alison Kilpatrick, 2018-08-08).
5. ↑ Brown, Rev. Peter. Historical Sketches of Cambusnethan. Wishaw, Edinburgh, & Glasgow, 1859.
6. ↑ Bogle, James. The Coltness Collections M.DC.VIII.–M.DCCC.XL. "Appendix no. 1." (pp 415–419.) Edinburgh Printing Co., 1842.