Alexander Black (abt. 1856 - 1926)

Biography

https://suzysu.wordpress.com/category/bisset/ Margaret Bisset and Alexander Black were my great great grandparents. I’ve written a little about their origins in the past, but hadn’t documented their family.

Their daughter Catherine was my mother’s maternal grandmother, and a presence in my early life. I’d long known from my mum that my great gran’s mother had died at a young age, but I hadn’t been able to find a record of the death.

This photo, which mum gave me last year, gave me the information I needed to find Margaret Bisset’s death record. Mum was right; Margaret was only 45 when she died on April 2, 1900, leaving a husband, two adult daughters and three children under 16. The cause of death was uterine hemorrhage and heart failure.

Alexander Black died on February 6th, 1926, having lived long enough to see his daughter Catherine marry and bear four of her five children.

Margaret d. 2 Apr 1900 aged 45 years ; Alexander Black d. 6 Feb 1926 in his 70th year. Infant sons Thomas and Alexander Dysart Cemetery

Sources

• [McArthur-306 : Ian McArthur - 18 Apr 2018]