WINTON, Elizabeth Robertson
- Born: 16 February 1844 2
- Baptised: 2 March 1844, Saint Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): SELCRAIG, John on 6 July 1863 in 26 London Street, Edinburgh, Scotland 1
- Marriage (2): McDONALD, Owen
- Died: 17 December 1918, 12 Viewforth Square, Edinburgh, Scotland 3
Cause of her death was pulmonary embolism over one day.3
Other names for Elizabeth were McDONALD, Elizabeth Robertson 3 and WINTER, Elizabeth.4
General Notes:
Old Parish Registers
St Cuthbert's Edinburgh
Baptisms
"2nd March 1844
Winton
Robert Winton engineer residing at no 88 Canongate and Helen Webster his spouse had a daughter born on the sixteenth of February last named Elizabeth Robertson"
In 1851, the census for the parish of Lasswade in Midlothian recorded Elie Winton, a boarder, aged 8 years living with Jane Jack, a 48 year old dressmaker, in Loanhead Village. Elie was a scholar and was recorded as having been born in the Westchurch area of Edinburgh. Jane Dick's daughter Jane P. Jack, aged 17 years, also lived there, as did four other boarders: Helen Ingram, Helen Alison, Isabella Berry and William Hume, all aged 8 years or under, and all recorded as born in the same area of Edinburgh.
The 1861 census for Elswick in Newcastle recorded Elizabeth Winter [sic] aged 17 years living with her sister, Catherine, and her husband and children. She was recorded as having been born in Edinburgh, and was a sewing machine worker.
Elizabeth Robertson McDonald died in 1918. Her death certificate recorded that she was the widow of 1] John Selcraig Boot Merchant and 2] Owen McDonald Hat Merchant. Her exact time of death was not entered, but there was a note that she had been found dead at 9pm. She was recorded as 74 years of age. Her parents were both already dead. 2 3 4 5
Research Notes:
BARONY STREET
Barony Street lies at right angles to Broughton Street and more or less parallel with London Street, Edinburgh.
Medical Notes:
Frederick Porter MB CM certified the cause of death.
Robert Selcraig, Elizabeth's son, of 39 Viewforth Square, gave notice of his mother's death before the registrar, John J. Eckford, at Edinburgh, on 20 December 1918. 3
Elizabeth married John SELCRAIG, son of Thomas SELCRAIG and Agnes BURNS, on 6 July 1863 in 26 London Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.1 (John SELCRAIG was born on 28 August 1832 in Edinburgh, Scotland 1 6 7, baptised on 31 October 1832 in Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland 7 and died before 17 December 1918 3.)
Marriage Notes:
The couple were married, after banns, according to the forms of the Church of Scotland. Andrew Milroy, Minister of the Free Tron Church, Edinburgh, conducted the service. The witnesses were John Kennedy, of 9 Jamaica Street, and Helen Crerar, of 25 Barony Street, Edinburgh.
John Selcraig was a bootmaker of 30 years of age. He lived at 12 Royal Exchange Square, Edinburgh, and was single.
Elizabeth Robertson Winton was a sewing machine worker. A single woman, she was 19 years old, and lived at 25 Barony Street, Edinburgh. Her father was deceased.
The marriage was registered at Edinburgh on 13 July 1863, Robert Dickie being the registrar.
NOTE
Here are some extracts from the Jules Verne Forum, that include a reference to the minister who married John Selcraig and Elizabeth Winton:
" Mirifiques aventures de Maitre Antifer
From: Ian Thompson <ithompson~at~geog.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:01:13 -0000
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Thanks to Grant for drawing to my attention that rather more than two chapters of Maitre Antifer take place in Edinburgh as the group of treasure hunters attempt to find the last clue to its location. Verne mixes information from his own visit in 1859, some correct fact and some error in the course of the episode.....
The main action in Edinburgh concerns the attempt to obtain the last clue from a clergyman, the Reverend Tyrcomel. He is portrayed as a minister (clergyman) of the Free Church of Scotland, preaching at the Tron Kirk (church). Verne had seen the imposing Tron Church, completed in 1647, on his 1859 visit so it was natural for him to select it as a location. However, after the "Disruption" of 1843 when the Free Church split from the Church of Scotland, taking with it about a third of the ministers and congregations, new "Free" churches were built. The novel is set in 1862 at which time there existed the "Auld (old) Tron Kirk of the Church of Scotland, which Verne had seen, and a much more modest "New" Tron Kirk belonging to the Free Church of Scotland, which Verne was almost certainly unaware of. To suit the plot therefore, Verne used the old Church of Scotland Tron Kirk, but transposed a fundamentalist minister from the nearby but inconspicuous "Free" Tron Kirk. In 1862, the Free Church minister was a Reverend Andrew Milroy and so, as usual in his Scottish novels, the name Tyrcomel was fictitious."
with acknowledgment and thanks
1
Elizabeth next married Owen McDONALD. (Owen McDONALD was born about 1840 and died before 17 December 1918.)
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