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Introduction / Westray Grays / Archibald Gray / Mary Ann Gray and John Tulloch / William Tulloch and Elizabeth Drever / John Tulloch and Jean Harcus

Mary Tulloch

Mary Tulloch (b. 8th April 1865) was the third of the five children of John Tulloch and Jean Harcus.

She was with her parents at Tuquoy, Westray in the 1871 census, age 5 years and was probably the 16-year old Mary Tulloch who was listed in the 1881 census as a servant at Salt Half.

By 1891, she was cook in Edinburgh and staying in the flat of a Gourlay family. She had a two month old son.

1891 - 21 Drumdryan St, St Giles, Edinburgh (exc Gourlay family)
Relation Status Age Occupation Born
Thomas W J Dunbar Visitor Married 26 Insurance agent Dublin
Thomas Tulloch 2 mnth St Cuthberts, Edinburgh
Mary Tulloch Lodger 25 Cook domestic servant Westray, Orkney
Betsy Brown Son Unmarried 25 General domestic servant St Margaret’s Hope, Orkney

The child’s father is thought to be Thomas William Jones Dunbar, an insurance agent from Dublin.

Mary Tulloch and daughter Jean Tulloch

Mary and Thomas are understood to have had four children:

  • Thomas Tulloch b. 30th Jan 1891, Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh who married Mary Catherine McGuill..
  • Henry Tulloch b. 19th Aug 1892, Garrison Place, Falkirk who married Esther Barr McQueen.
  • Jean Tulloch b. 29th Aug 1895, Garrison Place, Falkirk who married Archibald Osborne.
  • Edward Dunbar b. 6th Dec 1897, Dumfries who married Alice Davidson in Willesden, Middlesex on 29th May 1920. Alice was the daughter of Edward Davidson.

The children were all to adopt the Dunbar surname.

The family moved from Edinburgh to Falkirk with William Dunbar seen as a tenant of at Garrison Place per the 1895/96 valuation roll. At the time of Edward’s birth, William was a gasworks employee.

It is unclear where Mary and the family were at the time of the 1901 census but by 1911, she and the three oldest children were in Partick, Glasgow.

1911 - 31 Mansfield St, Partick, Glasgow
Relation Age Occupation Born
Mary Tulloch Head 44 Westray, Orkney
Thos Tulloch Son 20 Plater, Shipyard Edinburgh
Henry Tulloch Son 18 Miller Falkirk
Jas* Tulloch Dau 15 Messenger Falkirk
*this is thought to be daughter Jean Tulloch

This was a two room flat in a red sandstone tenement. Edward Dunbar was with his father in Surrey at the time.

Mary died at 6 Shandon St, Glasgow on 4th Oct 1956 at the age of 91.


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