Hellen Simpson Doig (born 1816) married Andrew Low Morison, Sr. 1837 in Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Pictured with youngest daughter, Jemima Grant Morison. Portrait taken when family was living in Hobart, Tasmania. This Morison family returned to Scotland around 1868. Helen and her daughter Jemima emigrated to Kansas around 1881. Jemima married Dayton Mead.
Jemima Grant (Morison) Mead of Salina, Saline County, Kansas United States was born on April 11, 1858 in Hobart, TAS Australia to Helen Simpson Doig Morison. She had siblings Andrewina Morison and Mary Ann (Morrison) Steeples. Jemima Mead died at age 89 years old on February 16, 1948 in Salina, Kansas United States.
Helen Simpson (Doig) Morison of Zurich, Rooks County, Kansas United States was born on February 10, 1816 in Burntisland, Fife County, Scotland United Kingdom. Helen was baptized on February 18, 1816. She was the mother of Andrewina Morison, Mary Ann (Morrison) Steeples, and Jemima Grant (Morison) Mead. Helen Morison died at age 81 years old on January 20, 1898 in Zurich, Rooks County, Kansas United States, and was buried in December 1898 at Al Mead Cemetery, Zurich, Kansas.
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Discover photos of Scotland and the Scottish people taken by families throughout history.
This series of photos shared by members of the community are of Scottish towns and cities and of famous and everyday Scottish people. Many are family photos taken over the last hundred+ years.
My life-time love of geneology and old photos led to the concept of Ancientfaces back in 1999....through the site I have made contact with previously unknown cousins in Australia, Tasmania, England, Scotland and various states in the US, broadening and enriching my family stories, photos and family relationships.
The names I am researching resided in and/or settled the following areas: South Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Normandy; Germany, Belgium & the Netherlands; Virginia; West Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Idaho and Washington state; first wave of settlers in the Hudson River & Mohawk River Vallies; founding fathers of New Haven, Middlesex and New London Counties, CT, along with Suffolk, Norfolk & Middlesex Counties in MA; first wave of settlers to Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Also, I am a member of the Mayflower Society after tracing my maternal side to John Billington, a Mayflower passenger ( with his family) who settled in Plymouth , and signed, the Mayflower compact.