Annie
Elizabeth
Blake
Born in Portobello, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Daughter of Henry Richbell Blake
and Janet Wilson
Sister of
Catherine Wilson Blake and Margaret Wilson Blake
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 91
in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Biography
Annie was born in Portobello, MIdlothian, Scotland, on 17 June 1881, the daughter of Harry Blake and Jessie Wilson. Her father died when she was 3 and she was brought up in the temperance hotel in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, belonging to her grandparents, James and Catherine Wilson. When she left school, she started working in the hotel, which she helped her mother and aunt to run after the death of her grandmother in 1904. She never married. She died in Dunfermline on 25 January 1973, aged 91.
Sources
- Birth date from Blake family bible in the possession of Sukie Hunter; place from census records. Death date also from family bible, entry presumably (from the handwriting) made by her great-nephew James (Jimmy) Campbell, who was her doctor and also an executor of her will. Place from the Scotlandspeople index.
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Rejected matches › Annie E Blake (abt.1883-) › Mary Annie Blake (abt.1882-) › Anne Blake (1880-) › Hester Ann Blake (1882-1974) › Marie-Anne Blais (1882-) › Marie Anne Blanche Blais (1881-) › Marie Anne Estelle Yvonne Blais (1882-) › Marie Anne Blais › Annie Black (abt.1880-) › Annie (Black) McSorley (abt.1880-) › Annie Christie (Black) Lumgair (1883-1971) › Mary Ann Eleanor (Blake) Hardes (1882-) › Sarah Ann Bleach (abt.1883-) › Florence Ann (Black) Waltz (1883-1973) › Edna Annie Amy Black (1881-1973) › Mary Ann Eliza (Black) Mihan (1880-) › Maud Annie (Black) Vorley (1883-) › Mary Ann Black (1880-)
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