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born about 1842 in Janet Street, Thurso. She married Donald Sutherland, born 24 Jan 1839 Chr 4 Feb 1839 veterinary surgeon, of Thurso, Caithness on 17 January 1875.
SUTHERLAND connection
I found a tree for Donald Sutherland (the Vet). His marriage certificate shows that his parents were William Sutherland and Elizabeth Mackay. There is an existing tree for them in Roots.com under Charleston, connecting the family to Thunder Bay Ontario)
IGI has Donald Sutherland and Margaret Campbell Shearer married 17th January 1875.
Husband�s age recorded as 31, wife 26.
Their children were:
Donald Shearer Sutherland, b 17 Dec 1875, their eldest child. D 1934. Having started out to study Law, circumstances forced him to abandon his studies. He left Thurso at the age of 17 and went to Edinburgh where in 1898 he married Elizabeth Mary Robertson a dressmaker. We have not established when she died but Donald moved to London where he spent some years in the army (King�s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery), serving both in the Boer War and the First World War. He married Isabel Gray Baillie in London in 1904, and they had nine children. (See below for further details.)
Barbara Sutherland b about 1878, D 1960. Married George Waters. Her daughter, Margaret Winnifred, married Pipe Major MacEachern and had a son, Iain, and two daughters, Barbara and Catherine.
Elizabeth Jane Sutherland b about 1880, D 1958. Elizabeth (a midwife) was married to David Gardner (a Customs and Excise Officer?). She was widowed in 1909 and went to Canada with her brother William, leaving her two sons with the their Sutherland grandparents. She married a second time, to a Mr Sinclair. Apart from occasional visits, Elizabeth never returned to Scotland to live.
From the two marriages, Elizabeth had four children, three with her first husband, David Gardner �
David Gardner 1899-1900, William Gardner1903-1968, John Stanley Gardner 1905-1923, and a daughter named Fairlie from the marriage to her second husband, Mr Sinclair � who may also have been a Customs and Excise Officer.
James Renwick Sutherland b about 1884, died in infancy.
Margaret Campbell Shearer Sutherland b about 1885, D 1960 aged 75, unmarried. Lived all her life in the same house in Janet Street Thurso.
William Honeyman Henderson Sutherland born about 1887. D 1941, aged 54. He went to Montreal, Canada, as a young man, with his sister Elizabeth, who we believe became Managing Director of Debenhams, Montreal. He returned to Thurso by 1925. He never married. He is buried in the family grave in Thurso. On the gravestone, he is recorded as William Honeyman Henderson Sutherland of Montreal.
Janet Winnifred Sutherland b ?, D 30 November 1966, aged 72. She married William MacKay. Their children are Margaret Campbell Shearer MacKay, who married Alfred Cameron; Sheila, who married Keith Sutherland (no relation) and went to live in Australia in the early 1960s; George, who lives in Scotland with his wife Clare and their family; Iain (nicknamed Pad), who lives in Scotland with his wife Isabel and their family, and Donald, who lived in the north of England with his wife and family until his death in 1995.
Catherine Wilson Sutherland b ?, D 1975. She married David Stanley Brotchie. Sons William, David, Donald and Stanley.
The following is information supplied by cousin Margaret Winnifred Gilbey, about her immediate Shearer Sutherland family:
Donald Shearer Sutherland (son of Donald Sutherland, veterinary surgeon, and Margaret Campbell Shearer), born at 7 Janet Street, Thurso, 17 December 1875. Married in London in 1904 to Isabel Gray Baillie.
Their children were:
(1)William Sutherland born 9.11.1904, Kensal Rise, London, D 1966
(2) Margaret Isabel Sarah Sutherland born 17.10.1906, Bromley, Kent, D 1986 (Margaret Gilbey�s mother)
Twins, born 12.5.1910, in London:
(3) Isabel Winnifred Sutherland (D 1996) and (4) George who died in infancy of pneumonia
(5) Catherine Wilson Sutherland, born 27.4.1912, in London, died aged two years of whooping cough
Triplets, born mid-June 1914, in London:
(6) Albert Baillie Sutherland (D 1991),
(7) Donald Sutherland (D 1977) and
(8) Winnifred Sarah Sutherland (D 1984)
(9) Stanley Henry Sutherland, born 8.11.1916, in London. D 2001.
The marriage found in IGI, listed under Sutherland and Campbell but showsMargaret Campbell Shearer age 26 and Donald Sutherland age 32, married 17 Jan 1875.
Their first son was Donald Shearer Sutherland born within the first year of their marriage on 17th Dec 1875.
The marriage of Donald and Margaret in Church of Scotland; certificate witnessed by both male parents. William Shearer Leather merchant; mother Barbara Campbell Shearer; Donald�s father William Sutherland, blacksmith and his mother (entry illegible) ?Fiona ? Elizabeth Mackay
And also witnessed by Professor William Campbell Shearer M.A. of Bradford, Margaret�s brother. Her other brother Dr George may not have returned to England by this time.
Donald Sutherland�s parents were William Sutherland and Elizabeth Mackay married 17 Dec 1835 in Thurso. IGI
Children of this couple found IGI
Isabella Sutherland Ch 23 Oct 1836. Married age 21 on 28 Jan 1858 Thurso Jto ohn Henry age 28.
They had 8 children between 1858 (1st born being John born 2nd Sept 1858) and 1873 in Glengolly, just outside Thurso. Their 3rd son 5th child is recorded as James Renurck Sutherland Henry.
Renurck mabe wrongly transcribed and should read Renwick, a family name..?)
Donald Sutherland born 24 Jan 1839 Chr 4 Feb 1839 who married Margaret Campbell Shearer Dec 1875
William went to Canada as a young man, with his sister Elizabeth and became Managing Director of Debenhams, Montreal. He returned to Thurso by 1925. He never married. He owned two very grand cars, a Rolls-Royce and a Bentley. He is buried in the family grave in Thurso. On the gravestone, he is William
Honeyman Henderson Sutherland of Montreal.
Elizabeth Jane Sutherland migrated with her brother William to Canada.
Elizabeth was married in Thurso to David Gardener, an airline pilot. She was widowed in 1907 and migrated to Canada, with her brother William HH leaving her two remaining sons William and Stanley with their Sutherland Grandparents, Donald and Margaret; (David having died as a baby.)
In Canada she married again. To Mr Sinclair and apart from occasional visits, Elizabeth never returned to Scotland to live.
From the two marriages, Elizabeth had four children. Three with her first husband - sons Stanley and William and David Gardener, and a daughter Fairlie from the 2nd husband Mr Sinclair, who is thought to have been a Customs and Excise Officer
