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James Lennie and Isabella Sandison

James Lennie was the son of Louisa Gray and William Lennie, and was baptised 20th November 1812 in Westray. About 1839 he married Isabella Sandison (daughter of Thomas Sandison and Jean Logie, born in Westray about 1812) and they are known to have had the following children:

• William Lennie, born 23 April 1840. He married Eliza Heddle.

• Jean Lennie, born 6 September 1842. She married William Manson.

• Margaret Lennie, born 11 October and christened 4 October (???) 1847. She was recorded with her parents in the 1851, 1871, and 1881 censuses. (In 1861 she was visiting next door.) In the 1901 census she was a servant at Hahouse, Westray, and still unmarried. No further records have been located for her.

• James Lennie, born 26 November 1856, and died 24 December 1857, age 1 yr.

In the 1841 and 1851 censuses the family was recorded at Fancy (or Faney), Westray. The following chart shows the household in 1851:

1851 - Fancy, Westray

	Relation	Status	Age	Occupation	Born
James Lennie	Head	Married	38 years	Fisherman	Westray
Isabela Lennie	Wife	Married	38 years		Westray
William Lennie	Son		10 years	Scholar	Westray
Jean Lennie	Daughter		9 years	Scholar	Westray
Margrat Lennie	Daughter		3 years		Westray

By 1861 they had moved to East Links, and James and Isabella remained there through the 1881 census. In 1861 James's occupation was still "fisherman"; by 1871 he was a farmer and fisherman, and in the 1881 census he was listed as a farmer of 7 acres.

Isabella died at Links, Westray, on 7th September 1881, and James died there on 31st January 1889.