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Jessie Cecilia Mack

Jessie Cecilia Mack

Female 1830 - 1891  (61 years)

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  • Name Jessie Cecilia Mack 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Female 
    Born 1830  Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Census 1851  23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Census 1861  5 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1871  4 Bruntsfield Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1881  Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Address:
    Polwarth Terrace 
    Cause Of Death Pneumonia & pleurisy  [5] 
    Died 9 May 1891  18 Merchiston Park, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2021 

    Father William Gordon Mack
              b. 14 Jun 1780, New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 8 Nov 1835, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Christina Kelly
              b. 14 Jan 1787, Barony, Glasgow, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 9 Jul 1857, 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 5 Oct 1807  Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 

    Husband William Murdoch Burn-Murdoch
              b. 9 Nov 1822, 48 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 12 Apr 1878  (Age 55 years)  [9] 
    Married 25 Jul 1850  St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10] 
    Age at Marriage She was 20, he was 27  
    Children 
     1. Lt. Col. John Burn-Murdoch
              b. 17 Jun 1852, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 30 Jan 1909, Doune, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     2. Christina Mary "Ina" Burn-Murdoch
              b. 5 Aug 1854
              d. 1899  (Age 44 years)
     3. Annie Jessie Burn-Murdoch
              b. 12 Apr 1856, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Dec 1929, 4 Dorset Square, Marylebone, Westminster, County of London, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     4. Elizabeth Emma Maude Burn-Murdoch
              b. 1858
              d. 16 Apr 1933, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)
     5. Sarah Jessie Cecilia "Morag" Burn-Murdoch
              b. Mar 1860, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 22 Jan 1929, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years)
     6. William Gordon Mack Burn-Murdoch
              b. 22 Jan 1862
              d. 19 Jul 1939  (Age 77 years)
     7. Elizabeth Gertrude Burn-Murdoch
              b. 22 Sep 1863, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Bef 1866  (Age < 2 years)
     8. Margaret Helen Kelly Burn-Murdoch
              b. 1865, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1867  (Age 2 years)
     9. James Archibald Henry Burn-Murdoch
              b. 20 Feb 1867
              d. 1948  (Age 80 years)
     10. Archibald Arthur Urmston Burn-Murdoch
              b. 21 May 1874, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Oct 1933, Auckland, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
    Last Modified 18 Jun 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early life
      Jessie Cecilia Mack was born in 1830, to William Gordon Mack (a lawyer in Glasgow) and his wife Christina Kelly. For some reason, there appear to be no records of birth or baptism for Jessie, unlike for her siblings. She grew up in Glasgow, in Blythewood House, the home of her parents, and moved to Edinburgh with her mother following the death of her father in 18351.

      Family life
      See the entry for her husband William Murdoch Burn-Murdoch for full details.

      Two of Jessie's sisters married into the Henderson family: Elizabeth married Thomas Henderson and Christina married Eagle Henderson. The latter was to be a formative part of the upbringing of his nephew Alexander (Thomas's eldest son) as Thomas died when Alexander was ten.

      Death
      Jessie died on the 9th of May 1891 at 18 Merchiston Park in Edinburgh, aged 61.

      The Mack Family
      My records go back to a William Mack (of Fruitfield) who married Jean Gillies. He would have been Jessie's grandfather. The Mack family appears to have had at least one, possibly more, connections to Canada (Montreal in particular). A search for William Gordon Mack (Jessie's father) reveals a person of that name having been a lawyer in Canada, but this cannot have been Jessie's father who was a solicitor in Glasgow. The Canadian may have been a cousin of Jessie's father (a son of one of William Gordon's younger brothers). We know that Alexander Henderson (son of Elizabeth Mack and the father of Polly Scott1) emigrated to Montreal. We also know that Robert Mack, one of William Gordon's brothers, emigrated to Ontario in Canada around 1827.

      William Murdoch Burn-Murdoch's will also mentions that he held $2800 Canadian in trust based on a grant from a monsieur Etienne Dubois in favour of his (William B-Murdoch's) brother-in-law James Mack and Jessie Cecilia herself.

      The Polly Scott correspondence also notes that William Gordon Mack and one or more of his brothers fell out over some money matter, possibly the sale of a property (which subsequently yielded huge quantities of iron) to the Baird family.

      Mack Surname
      From The Surnames of Scotland3:
      The surname of an old Berwickshire family. Lindkvist gives Makr (or Maki) as an Old West Scandinavian man's name from which he derives the old place name Macwra in Yorkshire.


      Footnotes
      [1] Polly Scott was born Mary Robertson Henderson, the grand-daughter of Elizabeth Mack, Jessie's eldest sister. See L_1923_03_Scott_Burn-Murdoch_01 for a letter from her to William Gordon Burn-Murdoch where she talks about the Macks and Kellys
      [2] https://culturenl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/North-Lanarkshire-Archives-List-of-Collections.pdf
      [3] The Surnames of Scotland, Their Origin Meaning and History by George F. Black, available at HathiTrust

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1830 - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 25 Jul 1850 - St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1851 - 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1861 - 5 Melville Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1871 - 4 Bruntsfield Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Address:
    Polwarth Terrace - 1881 - Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom    		 Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 May 1891 - 18 Merchiston Park, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Photos
    The Wedding of Arthur Bryans & Annie-Jessie Burn-Murdoch
    Jessie Cecilia Mack

  • Sources 
    1. [S0169] 1851 Scotland Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts; ED: 3A; Page: 21; Line: 12; Roll: CSSCT1851_184; Year: 1851.

    2. [S0249] 1861 Scotland Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), William Burn Murdoch & family; ED 57; Household # 67; LIne 23; Roll CSSCT1861_124, 1861.

    3. [S0137] 1871 England Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Burn-Murdoch family; Parish: Edinburgh St Cuthberts; ED: 113; Page: 1; Line: 19; Roll: CSSCT1871_166, 1871.

    4. [S0251] 1881 Scotland Census, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Jessie Cecilia Mack & family; Registration Number 685/1; Registration district St George; ED 4; Household schedule number 109; Line 1; Roll cssct1881_279, 1881.

    5. [S0278] Statutory registers: Deaths, National Records of Scotland, (ScotlandsPeople), Jessie Cecila Mack; 685/5 504, 9 May 1891.

    6. [S0250] Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Jessie Cecilia Mack Murdoch, 27 Jul 1891.

    7. [S0186] Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), William Gordon Mack / Christina Kelly;FHL Film Number 1042935, 1042937, 1042937, 5 Oct 1807.

    8. [S0267] Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Kelly / Mack; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTBW-33L : 11 February 2020), Christina Kelly in entry for William Gordon Mack, 1807., 5 Oct 1807.

    9. [S0267] Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Jessie Cecilia Mack; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYM2-VBZ : 11 February 2020), Jessie Cecilia Mack in entry for William Murdoch Burn Murdoch, 1850., 25 Jul 1850.

    10. [S0423] Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Jessie Cecilia Mack; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HR-HN97 : 9 March 2018), William Murdoch and Jessie Cecilia Mack, 25 Jul 1850; citing Marriage, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, The National Archives of Scotland, Edin, 25 Jul 1850.