Agnes Mitchell (Shirkie) Ligertwood (1839 - 1912)

Born 10 Apr 1839 in Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wife of John Ligertwood Jr — married 8 Dec 1860 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 28 Mar 1912 at age 72 in Old Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Biography

Agnes Mitchell Shirkie was the eldest daughter of agricultural labourer, William Shirkie (aft.1816–bef.1851), and Elspet Norval (c.1819–1874), who married in 1837.^[1][2]

Her baptismal record has not been found,^[3] but based on the age recorded on her entry in the statutory register of deaths and a date given in a family letter, Agnes was born on 10 April 1839.^[4][5] All entries on the 1851 to 1911 census, inclusive, state that she was born in the Aberdeenshire parish of Tarves, while the 1841 census (which only required enumerators to record the county of birth) stated that she was born in Aberdeenshire. The research note, below, summarises the documents which provide information about her birth year and location.

Agnes’s parents appear to have been fairly itinerant, presumably living where William could find work around Aberdeenshire.

She was recorded with her parents and infant brother, William, living at "Woodside" in the parish of Old Meldrum when the 1841 census was taken.^[6]

The family were at "Mains of Balquhain" in Chapel of Garioch when her brother, James, and twin sisters, Mary and Elspet were born in 1843 and 1845 respectively.^[7][8] The family had moved to the parish of Inverurie when her youngest sibling, Ann, was born in 1847.^[9]

Agnes seems to have lost her father before she was 13 years old. Although William’s death record has not been found, he appears to have died between 1847 and 1851, as her mother, Elspet, was recorded as the head of household and a widow, living with her children at Inverurie on the 1851 census.^[10] Agnes’s age, 14 years old, on this census appears to be an overestimate.^[11]

By 1860, Agnes was working as a house servant at "Blair" in the parish of Fintray, which was "A large substantial farmsteading with garden attached".^[12][13] She married John Ligertwood (1833–1925), who was also working at Blair as a farm servant.^[14]

The marriage took place on 8 December 1860 at the Established Church manse in Inverurie,^[15] with Agnes’s brother, William, acting as one of the witnesses. The four-year age difference between them recorded on the marriage register is likely to have been a six-year gap, as John was 27 years old, two years older than stated.

The choice of Inverurie as the place of the marriage was presumably because Agnes’s widowed mother, Elspet, was still resident in the parish.^[16][17]

Agnes and John were recorded living in Inverurie when the 1861 census was taken a few months later, possibly living on the High Street,^[18]

Ten children followed:

1. Elspet (Elsie) Ligertwood (1862–1942) ^[19]
2. John Ligertwood III (1864–1943) ^[20]
3. Agnes Ligertwood (1867–1955) ^[21]
4. James Ligertwood (1869–1945) ^[22]
5. Mary Ligertwood (1871–1947) ^[23]
6. An unnamed daughter (1873–1873) ^[24]
7. Alexander Ligertwood (1874–?) ^[25]
8. William Ligertwood (1876–1943) ^[26]
9. George Ligertwood (1879–1952) ^[27]
10. Jane Ann (Jeannie) Ligertwood (1881–1866) ^[28]

John and Agnes’s early married life appears to have been somewhat itinerant.

Their first daughter, Elspet, was born in July 1862 at "Burgh Muir" in Inverurie.^[19][29] The Register of Births recorded that John was working as a farm servant and ploughman and that he was not present at the birth.

Their second child, John Ligertwood III, was born in 1864 at "Kinmuck" in the parish of Keithhall, Aberdeenshire.^[20][30] The entry in the Register of Births notes that, again, John Jr, was not present at the delivery.

Their third child, Agnes, was born in 1867 at "Mains of Shiels" in the Aberdeenshire parish of Belhelvie,^[21] which was described as "A good substantial Farmsteading on the Estate of Orrock..."^[31][32] A fourth child, James, was born at the same farm in 1869.^[22] John was recorded as a farm servant in both entries in the Register of Births.

Another relocation had occurred by the time the 1871 census was taken and Agnes and John were at "Hillhead of Tillyeve" in the parish of Udny, Aberdeenshire.^[33] John was employed as the farm grieve, managing a farm of 200 acres (about 81 hectares), which had previously been farmed by the late John Buyers (c.1813–1866).^[34][35] The census that year described John Buyers's widow, Jane (Jean) Buyers née Duncan (?1817–1882), as the farmer at Tillyeve.^[36] The Ordnance Survey Name Book described Tillyeve as ”Two ordinary farm houses with offices, garden etc. attached the property of King's College. Aberdeen”.^[37][38]

John's and Agnes's fifth child, Mary, was born in Udny later that year.^[23]

The birth of an infant daughter was registered in the parish of Keithhall in 1873.^[24] She died aged just 36 hours at “Mill of Portstown” in that parish. Neither entry in the statutory registers of births or deaths provides the child’s first name.^[39]

By 1874 the family were back in Belhelvie, but this time in the south of the parish, when their seventh child, Alexander, was born.^[25] According to Alexander’s entry in the statutory Register of Births, John was working as a farm servant and overseer at "Laingseat", described by the Ordnance Survey as "A large farm Steading Very Conspicious in consequence of a Wind Mill being attached to the barn [...] property of the President and Society of Advocates Aberdeen".^[40][41] Two more children, William and George, were born there in 1876 and 1879.^[26][27] John was described as a "farm overseer" and "farm servant" in the respective entries in the Register of Births.

The 1881 census recorded Agnes at "Cottar Laingseat",^[42] presumably a dwelling on Laingseat Farm, and possibly what is now known as “Laingseat Cottage”.^[43] John was described in the enumeration book as a farm servant. Their tenth and final child, Jane Ann (Jeannie), was born later that year.^[28]

By 1885 the family had moved to the adjacent croft of "Butterywells" in Belhelvie, where John was recorded as the tenant and occupier on the valuation roll that year^[44][45] and Agnes was recorded there, with John, on the 1891 census.^[46] According to the census record, the house at Butterywells consisted of three main rooms with natural light. The croft was around 15 acres (6.1 hectares).^[47] It was described in the Ordnance Survey name book as follows:

'A farm house on the Estate of Wester Hatton the property of the Society of Advocates Aberdeen. This place is by some people called "Coldwaterford", but the proper name is "Butterywells".'^[48]

Five out of six of the eldest children appear to have left home by the time the 1891 census was taken, leaving 24-year-old daughter, Agnes, and her three youngest sisters at the family home with their parents. Agnes left just over a year later, when she married Thomas Shepherd Ireland Murdoch (1858–1927) in 1892.^[49]

Agnes and John were enumerated at Butterywells on the 1901 census,^[50] where John was recorded as a farmer. Their children had now left home, with the exception of their eldest son, John, an unmarried labourer, who had returned from working elsewhere and his sister, Jane Ann, who was away from home that night, visiting a house in Rubislaw.^[51] Also enumerated at the house that night was 34-year-old visitor, Ann Ligertwood, described as a "daughter", but actually Agnes and John’s daughter-in-law, Ann "Annie" Ligertwood née Webster (1865–1913), who was born in the parish of Kemnay and had married James Ligertwood in 1895.^[52] A three-month-old "granddaughter", Jane A Ligertwood, apparently born in the parish of Kemnay, was also recorded with the family on the 1901 census.^[53] Her identity and parentage has not been established, as no plausible birth record has been found.^[54] The author has concluded that this record could be a transcription error in the census enumeration book and the child may in fact have been a three-month-old grandson named James A Ligertwood, born on 28 December 1900,^[55] visiting the house with his mother.

John and Agnes were still living at Butterywells when the 1911 census was taken at the beginning of April,^[56] but they left by the Whitsun term day on 28 May, as the lease for the the croft had been advertised the previous November.^[47]

After John retired from farming, he and Agnes moved to No 679 King Street in Aberdeen, at some point between April 1911 and March 1912.^[57]

Figure 1: Location of No 679 King Street, Aberdeen. Detail from Ordnance Survey, 25-inch Maps of Scotland, sheets LXXV.3 and LXXV.7, published 1901. Reproduced with permission of the National Library of Scotland‬.

Agnes died at King Street on 28 March 1912, with the cause of death entered in the statutory register as ‘senile decay’.^[4] Her daughter, Jane Ann Ligertwood, described her mother’s final illness and death in a letter to her aunt, Ann Gordon née Shirkie, as follows:^[5]

"Mother had not been well for a long time, and for the last year off and on mother was worse. It was a very weakening[?] trouble, but mother never complained, and up to nearly the end if any of us asked her how she felt, she always said (some better). The Doctor said when he came last summer it was chronic blood poison, and a very weak heart, but that time Mother got a good bit better, but since Xmas she has failed terribly, but we thought the spring might make a difference, but no. Mother was laid up altogether 3 weeks before the end and could hardly speak above a whisper, and was taking next to nothing, but all along a terrible thirst for water and it was never cold enough. Mother was just wasted to nothing. Mother was conscious up to the day before she died about 4 o'clock, when she had a bad turn, which lasted to about 4.20 in the morning when she died, and she just slipt [sic] away, never said goodbye to any of us. Before, Mother never expressed a wish or desire for anybody or anything, but she did not have the strength to speak."

Notices of Agnes’s death, funeral and burial were placed in The Aberdeen Daily Journal on the 29 and 30 March 1912,^[58][59] which read as follows:

"LIGERTWOOD.—At 679 King Street, Aberdeen, on the 28th inst., Agnes Mitchell Shirkie, beloved wife of John Ligertwood, late of Butterywells, Belhelvie, in her 73rd year—deeply regretted. Funeral on Monday, 1st April, at 2 p.m., to Trinity Cemetery. All friends invited. This the only intimation and invitation."

She was buried in Trinity Cemetery off Errol Street in Aberdeen on 1 April 1912.^[60][61] The inscription on her gravestone reads:

"Erected by John Ligertwood / late of Belhelvie / In remembrance of his beloved wife / Agnes Mitchell Shirkie / who died at Aberdeen / 28 March 1912 aged 72 years. / Also the above / John Ligertwood / who died 12th January 1925, / Aged 91 years. / Also their daughter / Elspet Ligertwood / who died 28th December 1942 / aged 80 years / and their son, / John Ligertwood / who died 2nd April 1943, aged 78 years."

Agnes was survived by her husband, John, for almost 13 years and was buried with her.^[62]

Research note

The following table shows the documents used to establish Agnes’s place and year of birth.

Sources

1. ↑ “Old Parish Registers, Marriages and Banns, 1553–1854,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 23 April 2017), image, entry for William Sherkie (sic) and Elspet Norval, dated 1 December 1837 in Udny, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 249/ 20 201.
2. ↑ “Old Parish Registers, Marriages and Banns, 1553–1854,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 29 August 2020), image, entry for William Shirky (sic) and Elspet Norval, dated 3 December 1837 in Echt, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 191/ 30 126.
3. ↑ National Records for Scotland, “Old Parish Registers, Births and Baptisms, 1553–1854,” database, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 28 August 2020), search for possible record for a child named Agnes with parents’ surnames of Shirkie or Norval, including likely spelling variations, born between 1835 and 1845 in the county of Aberdeenshire.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} “Statutory Deaths, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 5 April 2017), image, entry for Agnes M Ligertwood née Sharkie [sic], aged 72 years, died on 28 March 1912 in Old Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 168/4 12.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Jeanie [Jane Ann] Ligertwood (Hector House, 679 King Street, Aberdeen, Scotland) to "Dear Auntie," [Ann Gordon née Shirkie (1847–1930)], letter, 11 April 1912; photocopy of original letter and envelope privately held by Jeannette Margaret Woodley née Shirkie, Canada, 2017; transcribed by David Dobie, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom, 2017. A handwritten letter covering eight sides, with black borders printed on 4 sides and a handwritten envelope, also with black borders. The letter informs Ann Gordon of the death of her sister, Agnes Mitchell Shirkie. The letter states that “Mother would have been 73 years old on Wednesday 10th April [1912].”
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Agness Shirke, aged 2 years, enumerated on 6 June 1841 in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 229/ 5/ 3.
7. ↑ “Old Parish Registers, Births and Baptisms, 1553–1854,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for James Greig Shirkie, baptised on 4 September 1843 at Chapel Of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 179/ 20 168. Note an error in the entry, which gives the incorrect name of Jame’s father, who is recorded as James, rather than William.
8. ↑ “Old Parish Registers, Births and Baptisms, 1553–1854,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Mary and Elspet Shirkie, baptised on 8 August 1845 at Chapel Of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 179/ 20 173.
9. ↑ “Old Parish Registers, Births and Baptisms, 1553–1854,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Ann Shirkie, baptised on 29 August 1847 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 40 182.
10. ↑ “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Elspet Shirkie, aged 32 years, enumerated on 30 March 1851 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 4/ 34.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Agnes Shirkie, aged 14 years, enumerated on 30 March 1851 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 4/ 34.
12. ↑ Ordnance Survey, “Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865–1871,” Ms, volume 30, page 5, held by National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; ScotlandsPlaces (https://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk : accessed 31 August 2020), database with images, entry for Blair, Parish of Fintray, citing reference no. OS1/1/30/5.
13. ↑ "Blair" in the parish of Fintray was located at DMS coordinates 57°16'30"N, 2°15'54"W.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} “Statutory Marriages, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 5 April 2017), image, entry for John Ligertwood and Agnes Shirkie, married on 8 December 1860 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 19.
15. ↑ The Established Church manse at Inverurie was located at DMS coordinates 57°16'47"N, 2°22’39"W.
16. ↑ “Valuation rolls, 1855–1940,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 31 August 2020), image, entry for Widow Shirkie, tenant and occupier, House 68 Torgne Road East Side, Inverurie, 1856, citing reference no. VR004300001.
17. ↑ “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 April 2017), image, entry for Elspet Sherkie, aged 41 years, enumerated on 7 April 1861 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 2/ 52.
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 29 August 2020), image, entry for Agnes Ligertwood, aged 21 years, enumerated on 7 April 1861 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 2/ 37. Note that the page in the enumeration book does not give the name of the house or street, but the previous entry for the household of John Wilson, has been transcribed on the Ancestry.com website as High Street, Inverurie. The valuation roll for 1856 records John Wilson at “House and Yard, 28 Burgh Muir” and in 1867 as the proprietor and occupier of a house on West High Street.
19. ↑ ^{19.0 19.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 12 January 2020), image, entry for Elspet Ligertwood, born on 2 July 1862 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 204/ 60.
20. ↑ ^{20.0 20.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 12 January 2020), image, entry for John Ligertwood, born on 4 November 1864 in Keithhall, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 206/ 25.
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 5 April 2017), image, entry for Agnes Ligertwood, born on 19 March 1867 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 12.
22. ↑ ^{22.0 22.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 12 January 2020), image, entry for James Ligertwood, born on 23 March 1869 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 15.
23. ↑ ^{23.0 23.1} National Records for Scotland, “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 1 September 2020), entry on birth index for Mary Ligertwood, born 1871, Udny, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 249/A 29.
24. ↑ ^{24.0 24.1} National Records for Scotland, “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), entry on birth index for an unnamed female infant with the surname Ligertwood, born 1873, Keithhall in Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 206/ 5.
25. ↑ ^{25.0 25.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 15 January 2020), image, entry for Alexander Ligertwood, born on 7 March 1874 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 14.
26. ↑ ^{26.0 26.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), image, entry for William Ligertwood, born on 23 October 1876 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 46.
27. ↑ ^{27.0 27.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), image, entry for George Ligertwood, born on 27 May 1879 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 28.
28. ↑ ^{28.0 28.1} “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 30 August 2020), image, entry for Jane Ann Ligertwood, born on 4 July 1881 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 31.
29. ↑ Burgh Muir in Inverurie was located at the approximate DMS coordinates 57°17'18"N, 2°23'05"W.
30. ↑ ”Kinmuck" in Keithhall was located around DMS coordinates 57°16'09"N, 2°18'17"W.
31. ↑ Ordnance Survey, “Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865-1871,” Ms, volume 8, page 28, held by National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; ScotlandsPlaces (https://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk : accessed 1 September 2020), database with images, entry for Mains of Shiels, Parish of Belhelvie, citing reference no. OS1/1/8/28.
32. ↑ Mains of Shiels in Belhelvie was located at DMS coordinates 57°15'56"N, 2°05'58"W.
33. ↑ ^{33.0 33.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 10 April 2017), image, entry for Agness Ligertwood, aged 31 years, enumerated on 2 April 1871 in Udny, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 249/A 3/ 5.
34. ↑ “Valuation rolls, 1855–1940,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), image, entry for John Buyers, tenant and occupier, Farm of Little Tillyeve Lands of Tillyeve, parish of Udny, citing reference no. VR008700033.
35. ↑ National Records for Scotland, “Statutory Deaths, 1855–present,” database, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), entry on death index for John Buyers, aged 53 years, died 1866, Udny in Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 249/ 14.
36. ↑ “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 10 April 2017), image, entry for Jean Buyers, aged 50 years, enumerated on 2 April 1871 in Udny, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 249/A 3/ 5.
37. ↑ Ordnance Survey, “Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865-1871,” Ms, volume 91, page 83, held by National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; ScotlandsPlaces (https://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), database with images, entry for Tillyeve, Parish of Udny, citing reference no. OS1/1/91/83.
38. ↑ “Ordnance Survey Maps, Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843–1882,” Aberdeenshire, sheet LVI; National Library of Scotland, database with images (https://maps.nls.uk/view/74425406 : accessed 2 September 2020). This map, surveyed in 1866 and published in 1870 shows two farms named "Tillyeve" at approximate DMS coordinates: 57°17'48"N, 2°10'22"W and 57°17'30"N, 2°10'30"W. The farm to the south is named "South Tillyeve" on later editions.
39. ↑ “Statutory Deaths, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), image, entry for an infant with the surname Ligertwood, aged 0 years, died on 6 February 1873 in Keithhall, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 206/ 2.
40. ↑ Ordnance Survey, “Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865-1871,” Ms, volume 80, page 76, held by National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; ScotlandsPlaces (https://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk : accessed 2 September 2020), database with images, entry for Laingseat, parish of Belhelvie, citing reference no. OS1/1/8/76.
41. ↑ “Laingseat” in Belhelvie is located at DMS coordinates: 57°13'36"N, 2°5'29"W.
42. ↑ ^{42.0 42.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 17 April 2020), image, entry for Agness Legertwood, aged 41 years, enumerated on 3 April 1881 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 5/ 7.
43. ↑ “Laingseat Cottage” is located at DMS coordinates 57°13'36"N, 2°05'29"W.
44. ↑ “Valuation rolls, 1855–1940,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 September 2020), image, entry for John Ligertwood, tenant and occupier, Croft and house Batterywells [sic] Estate of Wester Hatton, Parish of Belhelvie, 1885, citing reference no. VR008700079.
45. ↑ “Butterywells” is located at Manse Road, Potterton, Aberdeen, AB23 8UY. DMS coordinates ‬57°13'36"N, 2°05'53"W.
46. ↑ ^{46.0 46.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 24 April 2017), image, entry for Agnes Legertwood, aged 51 years, enumerated on 5 April 1891 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 5/ 8.
47. ↑ ^{47.0 47.1} "Estate of Wester Hatton, Belhelvie," Aberdeen Daily Journal, 16 November 1910, page 2, column 4; British Newspaper Archive, database with images, (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 14 January 2020).
48. ↑ Ordnance Survey, “Aberdeenshire OS Name Books, 1865-1871,” Ms, volume 8, page 76, held by National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh; ScotlandsPlaces (https://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk : accessed 6 September 2020), database with images, entry for Butterywells, Parish of Belhelvie, citing reference no. OS1/1/8/76.
49. ↑ “Statutory Marriages, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 30 March 2017), image, entry for Thomas S J Murdoch and Agnes Ligertwood, married on 1 June 1892 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 3. NB: Thomas’s middle initials “S I” have been incorrectly transcribed on the index as “S J”.
50. ↑ ^{50.0 50.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 23 July 2017), image, entry for Agnes Ligertwood, aged 61 years, enumerated on 31 March 1901 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 5/ 10.
51. ↑ “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 7 September 2020), image, entry for Jennie Ann Legertwood, aged 19 years, enumerated on 31 March 1901 in St Machar, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 168/2 31/ 29.
52. ↑ “Statutory Marriages, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 21 April 2017), image, entry for James Ligertwood and Annie Webster, married on 6 June 1895 in St Nicholas, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 168/1 280.
53. ↑ “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 23 July 2017), image, entry for Jane A Ligertwood, aged 0 years, enumerated on 31 March 1901 in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 174/ 5/ 10.
54. ↑ National Records for Scotland, “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 September 2020). Search for plausible entries on birth index for a child named Jane A Ligertwood and variant spellings, born in 1900 or 1901, in the parishes of Kemnay or Belhelvie, or in the county of Aberdeenshire.
55. ↑ “Statutory Births, 1855–present,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 6 September 2020), image, entry for James Alexander Ligertwood, born on 28 December 1900, but recorded in the 1901 register for St Machar, Aberdeenshire, citing reference no. 168/2 99.
56. ↑ ^{56.0 56.1} “Census Returns, 1841 onwards,” database and images, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk : accessed 28 August 2020), image, entry for Agnes Ligertwood, aged 71 years, enumerated on 2 April 1911 in Belhelvie, Aberdeen, citing reference no. 174/ 5/ 4.
57. ↑ No 679 King Street, Aberdeen, Scotland is located at DMS coordinates [‪https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=57_10_13_N_2_05_48_W 57°10'13"N, 2°05'48"W].
58. ↑ ^{58.0 58.1} ”Births, Marriages, Deaths.," announcements, The Aberdeen Daily Journal (Scotland), 29 March 1912, page 6, column 1; digital image, British Newspaper Archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 14 January 2020).
59. ↑ ”Births, Marriages, Deaths.," announcements, The Aberdeen Daily Journal (Scotland), 30 March 1912, page 5, column 1; digital image, British Newspaper Archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk : accessed 14 January 2020).
60. ↑ ^{60.0 60.1} “Unpublished Memorial Inscriptions,” on-line database, Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society (https://www.anesfhs.org.uk : accessed 14 September 2020), entry for Agnes Mitchell Shirkie, died 28 March 1912, aged 72, Trinity Cemetery (Aberdeen), stone number D-16.
61. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 August 2020), memorial page for Agnes Mitchell Shirkie Ligertwood (1839–1912), Find A Grave: Memorial #195105610, citing Trinity Cemetery, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland. Approximate location: 57°09’26″N, 2°05′23″W.
62. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 September 2020), memorial page for John Ligertwood (1833–1925), Find A Grave: Memorial #195105390, citing Trinity Cemetery, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Scotland.

See also:

• Agnes Mitchell Shirkie on FamilySearch.org. Record LRRN-MYT.
• Agnes Mitchell Shirkie on Find A Grave: Memorial #195105610.
• Research undertaken by Agnes's great great grandson, David Dobie.