Sarah Murray Coutts (later Sarah Murray Merchant)

 

24 April 1868 to 21 December 1936

 

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1868

 

Sarah Murray Coutts, the daughter of William Coutts and Agnes (nee Carnie) Coutts (COU00014), was born on 24 April 1868 in Fetteresso (Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950).

1871

 

1871 censusKirktown, Maryculter (there’s a suggestion Maryculter is in Kincardeshire, but there is also Maryculter near Peterculter which is more likely)

Agnes C Coutts   41, farm servant’s wife

Mary A Coutts    17

William Coutts    13

Agnes B Coutts   11

Anna H G Coutts 7

Arthur F Coutts  5

Sarah M Coutts  2

 

Old Machar, Aberdeen

 

1881

1881 Census – Rubislaw Road, Old Machar, Aberdeen

William Coutts, 52, gardener

Mary Coutts, 30

Arthur F Coutts, 15, unmarried, assistant gardener

Sarah M Coutts, 12, Scholar

Alexander H Coutts, 7, Scholar

Elsie Jane Coutts , 5

George D Coutts, 3

Robert M Coutts , 1

Jane Mann , 41

Emily Lawson, 27

 

1891

1891 census – 142 Ingleby Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow Barony, Lanarkshire

William Coutts, 33, commercial traveller confections, born Maryculter (her older brother)

Isabella G Coutts, 29, his wife

Isabella J Coutts, 4

William Fisher Coutts, 1

Sarah M Coutts, 22

Mary A Mitchell 22

 

1901

1901 census – Woodend Cottage, Peterculter

Alexr Merchant, 30

Sarah M Merchant, 32

 

1921

1921 Census of Canada – 930 10th Street, New Westminster, British Columbia

Alexander Marchant, 55, baggage man, Canadian railways

Sarah Marchant, 53

William E Lewis, 50

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1931

1931 Census of Canada - 930 10th Street, New Westminster, British Columbia

Alexander Merchant, 65, baggage man, Canadian railways

Sarah Merchant, 63

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1936

Sarah Murray C Merchant died, aged 68, on 21 December 1936 at New Westminster and was buried at Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster, Greater Vancouver (Canada Death Index 1872 to 1990, Monumental Record).

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(The Province, 23 December 1936)

1963

Alexander Merchant died in 1963 (Monumental Record).