Lorna's family forest

Esther Sutherland¹

(22 December 1862 - 10 January 1942)

Father

Alexander Sutherland² (Dec 1841 - Apr 1915)

Mother

Catherine Bain (Dec 1841 - Jun 1904); The identification of Cath Bain mother of Esther (with Alexander Sutherland) as the same Catherine Bain as the one with son Donald Bain or Gray is highly likely. Certainly Catherine was living in the right place (Dale, Halkirk) and Alexander was the brother of Catherine's brother's future wife, plus in the 1861 census, their respective houses were nearby. In 1871 Esther was living with Alexander's parents as their grandchild. The evidence between Esther and the Catherine, dtr of Donald Bain and Maggie Taylor is more circumstantial, although when Esther married in 1907, her mother Catherine was shown as deceased, which also fits^3,2

Relationship

1st cousin 3 times removed of Lorna Henderson

BMDB data

Esther Sutherland was born on 22 Dec 1862 Dale, Par. of Halkirk, CAI, SCT, place from igi which says 'Sutherland or Bain'. Birth cert: Esther Sutherland or Bain (illegitimate) born 22 Dec 1862, Dale, Halkirk to Catherine Bain and Alexander Sutherland. Cert adds Alexander, farm servant, not present.^2,4
Esther Sutherland married George Mackay, son of Robert Mackay and Mary MacKay, on 25 Sep 1907 Thurso, CAI, SCT

, Esther, 44, laundry maid Royal Hotel, Thurso, dtr of Alexander Sutherland, farm servant, and Catherine Bain, dec. George, 50, fisherman of 1 ?? Lane, Thurso, son of Robert Mackay and Mary m.s. Mackay, both dec. Wit: Andrew Docherty and Dorothy Macleod.^5,6
Esther Sutherland died on 10 Jan 1942 1 Sutherland Cottages, Thurso, CAI, SCT, at age 79; cert shows she was married to George MacKay, and the inf. was her nephew Richard MacPhail of 6 Smith Tce, Thurso.⁵

Census/Where lived/Occupations

     In the census of 1871 Esther Sutherland was Dale, Par. of Halkirk, CAI, SCT, in the household of Alexander Sutherland and Catherine Sutherland as granddtr of Alexander.^7,8
     The census of 1881 showed Esther in the household of her grdparents Alexander and Catherine Sutherland Sibster, Par. of Halkirk, CAI, SCT, enumerated as Alexr SUTHERLAND, 69, farmer 12 ac. arable b Latheron, wife Catherine, 69, b Bower. Dtr Johan, 34, unm, b Halkirk. Grd dtr: Esther, 18, dom serv, b Halkirk. Sister Isabella SUTHERLAND, 63, retrd cook, b Bower.⁹
     By Sep 1907 Esther Sutherland was a laundry maid at the Royal Hotel, Thurso, CAI, SCT.³

Names

Esther Sutherland was also known as Esther Bain.

All the other info

Family stories say that her mother worked at "the big hoose."¹⁰

Family 1

John Miller (say 1860 - )

Child

Johan Sutherland¹¹ (Jul 1881 - )

Family 2

George Mackay (cir. 1857 - )

Charts

BAIN
TAYLOR

Last Edited

8 Jun 2022

Citations

GRO, SCT, BDM searches at GRO SCT: Bth cert 1862 (reg. 1863) Esther SUTHERLAND/BAIN, trans. Bobby B, May 2003, rechecked Mar 2004.
GRO, SCT, BDM searches at GRO SCT: Birth cert 1862 (reg. 1863) Esther SUTHERLAND or BAIN, Halkirk, CAI, trans. Bobby B, rcvd May 2003, rechecked Mar 2004.
GRO, SCT, BDM searches at GRO SCT: Mar. 1907 Esther SUTHERLAND or BAIN to George MacKAY, transcr. Bobby B, Apr 2004.
Births deaths marriages index: Scotland 1855+, Birth reg. 1863 Esther BAIN (also indexed as Esther SUTHERLAND), reg. Halkirk, CAI, 037/ 1, rechecked May 2021 , http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk
GRO, SCT, BDM searches at GRO SCT: Dth 1942 Esther MACKAY, nee SUTHERLAND/BAIN, trans. Bobby B. Mar 2004.
GRO, SCT, BDM searches at GRO SCT: Marr. 25 Sep 1907 Esther SUTHERLAND or BAIN to George Mackay, transcr. Bobby B, Apr 2004.
Letter, Robert B to Lorna Henderson, Jun 2003.
1871 Census transcripts, Scotland, via Ancestry.com, Dale, Halkirk, CAI, Par. 37 ; ED: 6; Page: 9; hsehold of Alexander & Catherine SUTHERLAND, extracted (also image via John Stewart) May 2021.
1881 Census transcripts, UK, via Family Search/LDS CDs, Sibster, Halkirk CAI FHL Film 0203400 GRO Ref Volume 037 EnumDist 4 Page 5, hsehold of Alexr & Catherine SUTHERLAND, extracted Dec 2002.
John H SUTHERLAND, "Corres. re Alexander SUTHERLAND ex John H, York," e-mail to L McIntosh (1), Rcvd Feb 2004.
Scottish BMDB entries (from 1855), http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php, Birth 12 Jul 1881 Johan SUTHERLAND, d/o Esther SUTHERLAND, reg. Halkirk, CAI, 037/ 45, copy d/loaded May 2021.

E. & O. E. Some/most parish records are rather hard to read and names, places hard to interpret, particularly if you are unfamiliar with an area.

BMD data on all rellies

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln
History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

— ?Santayana?
What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

— Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett
.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)
The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon
Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

Click on the picture if you wish to thank me for any of my research/DNA work that has helped you.

Esther Sutherland

Esther Sutherland1