Dorothea Harper (“Dot”) Coutts
(later Dorothea Harper (“Dot”) Birss)
13 July 1912 to 9
January 1998
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1912
Dorothea Harper
Coutts (“Auntie Dot”) was born on 13 July 1912 (family knowledge, School Admissions Register).
1917
Dorothea Harper
Coutts, born on 13 July 1912, daughter of Robert M Coutts, attended Ashley Road
School, Aberdeen from 14 August 1917 to 22 August 1922 (Scotland School Admissions Register). The family lived at 38
Devonshire Road.
She later attended Aberdeen High School for Girls.
1921
1921 census – 81 Devonshire Road, Rubislaw, South
Aberdeen
James Gordon, 65,
upholstery and cabinet maker
Robert M Coutts,
son in law, 41, upholstery and cabinet maker
Lizzie B Coutts,
40
Evelyn G Coutts,
14
Dorothea H
Coutts, 8 years 11 months
Kathleen M
Coutts, 6
2 others
1930
Robert Merchant
Coutts (left) and Lizzie Bella Coutts (right), with their daughters in perhaps
about 1930.
Dorothea Coutts
back left, Evelyn Coutts back right, Kathleen Coutts (sitting on floor)
1935
Dorothea Harper Coutts married James Fullarton
Birss on 6 December 1935 (family
knowledge). Her family lived at Harlaw Road,
Aberdeen at this time (Electoral Register).
James Fullarton Birss was born in Strathdon
on 11 July 1907.
1938
James Gordon Birss
was born in 1938.
1939
Dorothea Harper Birss,
26, arrived at Southampton on 3 March 1939, on the Winchester Castle, on a
voyage returning from South Africa (Incoming Passenger Lists). James Birss had been working as a missionary in Belgian Congo.
1943
Margaret Elizabeth Birss
was born in 1943.
1945
John Alexander Fullarton Birss
was born in 1945.
1954
Dot Birse at Robert and Lizzie’s Golden
Wedding in about 1954
Margaret Birss and Dot Birss
Gordon Birss Jim Birss
John Birss
1978
James Fullarton Birss
died in Aberdeen on 24 February 1978.
1998
Dorothea H Birss
died in Aberdeen on 9 January 1998 (Scotland Death
Index).