Elizabeth Mack
1808 - 1880 (72 years)-
Name Elizabeth Mack Relationship 
with Marion Murdoch Johnson Gender Female Birth 28 Jul 1808 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 
[1] Census 1851 Houndwood, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom [2] Census 1871 Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom [3] Death 3 Sep 1880 Logie, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom [4] Siblings2 sisters Last Modified 4 Mar 2021
Father William Gordon Mack
b. 14 Jun 1780, New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
d. 8 Nov 1835, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 55 years) Mother Christina Kelly
b. 14 Jan 1787, Barony, Glasgow, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
d. 9 Jul 1857, 23 Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom (Age 70 years) Marriage 5 Oct 1807 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom [5, 6]
Husband 1 Thomas Henderson
b. Abt 1805
d. Bef 1851 (Age ~ 45 years)Marriage 14 Sep 1830 St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom [7] Age at Marriage Elizabeth was 22 years old - Thomas was ~ 25 years old. Children 1. Alexander Henderson
b. 9 Jul 1831, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
d. 4 Apr 1913, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Age 81 years)2. William Gordon Henderson
b. 22 Dec 1837, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
d. Between 1874 and 1947 (Age 36 years)Last Modified 21 Feb 2020
Husband 2 Samuel Wright Knox
b. Abt 1820Marriage 14 Dec 1851 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom [8] Age at Marriage Elizabeth was 43 years old - Samuel was ~ 32 years old. Last Modified 21 Feb 2020
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Notes - L_Unknown_02_Burn-Murdoch_Burn-Murdoch talks of two portraits of Elizabeth Mack. The author of the following text is Elizabeth Emma Maud Burn-Murdoch (1858-1933), writing to her sister Annie Jessie:
The portrait [of Elizabeth Mack] was painted by G [sic] Watson Gordon and is now in the possession of her grandson Thomas Henderson (1804-1841), Montreal & is greatly valued. The photo of portrait was done for her eldest grand-daughter Mary Henderson (1862-?) now Mrs P[olly]. Scott 25 Alva St Edinburgh and it was she who gave Dorothy [Bryans] the photo and not I. My copy is only a small carte de visite style.
The second portrait of Aunt Elizabeth was also done by Watson Gordon & I think I like it best, perhaps because I see it so often at P Scott’s house. It came to her through an aunt and we all thoroughly appreciate it. In it, she is wearing a delightfully quaint yellowy bonnet & has pretty lace. Her hands are charming in it; but I believe the green velvet portrait was considered the best.
“Aunt Bessie” was really very beautiful but our mother [was] to have made an even better portrait but evidently funds did not rise to that after grandfather’s death when mother was only 13 years old. As you probably knew, grandmother Mack [Christina Kelly] came to Edinburgh & lived in 23 Stafford Street so as to be near her daughter Elizabeth Henderson at 1 Melville Crescent Edinburgh
It was from her house then that our mother’s marriage took place on 1st July 1850.
I wonder if you know the story of the velvet dress. Aunt Bessie had worn it one evening & left it out on a spare bed when suddenly the house took fire and she was later found out in the street holding her “two precious treasures”: her baby Alexander (1831-1913, a renowned landscape photographer who emigrated to Montreal) & her velvet dress wrapped round him. She of course always said she had mistaken it for a blanket.
Elizabeth married Thomas Henderson, the son of Alexander (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Henderson_of_Press).
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Event Map 
Birth - 28 Jul 1808 - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Marriage - 14 Sep 1830 - St Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Census - 1851 - Houndwood, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Marriage - 14 Dec 1851 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Census - 1871 - Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom 
Death - 3 Sep 1880 - Logie, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S0149] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, (ancestry.co.uk), 28 Jul 1808, Elizabeth Mack; FHL Film Number 0102918, 0994179, 1042938, 0102917.
- [S0169] Ancestry, 1851 Scotland Census, (ancestry.co.uk), 1851, Christian Mack; ED 5, p 3, Household 11, line 12, Roll CSSCT1851_196.
- [S0137] Ancestry, 1871 England Census, (ancestry.co.uk), 1871, Elizabeth Mack;Piece 2087;Folio 109; Page 5.
- [S0278] National Records of Scotland, Statutory registers: Deaths, (ScotlandsPeople), 3 Sep 1880, Elizabeth Mack; 374/49.
- [S0186] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, (ancestry.co.uk), 5 Oct 1807, William Gordon Mack / Christina Kelly;FHL Film Number 1042935, 1042937, 1042937.
- [S0267] FamilySearch, Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910, (familysearch.org), 5 Oct 1807, Kelly / Mack; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTBW-33L : 11 February 2020), Christina Kelly in entry for William Gordon Mack, 1807.
- [S0186] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, (ancestry.co.uk), 14 Sep 1830, Elizabeth Mack; FHL Film Number 1066764.
- [S0186] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910, (ancestry.co.uk), 14 Dec 1851, Elizabeth Mack/Henderson;FHL Film Number 1066696.
- [S0149] Ancestry, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, (ancestry.co.uk), 28 Jul 1808, Elizabeth Mack; FHL Film Number 0102918, 0994179, 1042938, 0102917.