WHITSON, Margaret ¹

   Other names for Margaret were NISBET, Margaret ³ and NISBET, Margret.

  General Notes:

The 1851 census for Innerleithen recorded Margaret Nisbet living at Pirn Park with her family: her husband, Robert, her daughter, Margaret, her two sons, Robert and Thomas, and six servants or labourers, two of whom were surnamed Whitson, Susan (34 years, a house servant born in Innerleithen) and Robert (28 years, a farm labourer born in Innerleithen). The others were farm labourers: James Anderson (30 years born in Humby East Lothian), Robert Mathieson (17 years born in Innerleithen), Robert Babtie (16 years born in Selkirk) and Mary Robertson (21 years born in Stobo).

In the 1861 census for Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Margret [sic] Nisbet was recorded as a widow and head of a household living at Horsburgh Terrace, Innerleithen. With her lived her daughter and son and two female lodgers surnamed Wilson, both of whom were noted as 'Proprietor of House' by way of occupation. Margret's age was recorded as 49 years and her place of birth as Traquair, Peeblesshire. ³

Margaret married Robert NISBET Coach Proprietor and Farmer, son of Robert NISBET and Christian WALLACE, on 15 September 1837 in Innerleithen parish, Peeblesshire, Scotland.¹ (Robert NISBET Coach Proprietor and Farmer was baptised on 7 August 1793 in Edrom Parish, Berwickshire, Scotland,⁴ died 31 July 1857 at 2.30 am in Horsburgh Terrace, Innerleithen, Peebleshire, Scotland ⁵ and was buried in 1857 in Innerleithen Churchyard, Peeblesshire, Scotland ⁵.). The cause of his death was cerebral disease over 10 years.