Agnes McKechnie

Agnes was born to Peter and Jane McKechnie in 1848 [4]. In 1871 her home was at 21 West Blackhall Street in central Greenock[4], and she was in service in the home of the Rev. Bruar, at Willowbank, Forsyth Street, West Greenock[7]. The same year she married Nicol McKechnie, who at the time was a seaman and spent much of the following four years away. Between then and the early 1890s, she gave birth to nine children [1, 2, 3]. At the time of son Dugald's birth in 1886, they were living at 19 Belleville Street in the east end of Greenock [6].

Agnes in about 1870,..	...with husband Nicol about 1880...	...and with her family about 1895.

Agnes died of a cerebral haemmorrhage at 7.55 p.m. on 1st September 1916 [5]. A funeral account from 1916 found among the family papers was probably hers.

Sources: Census [7]1871, [1]1881, [2]1891, [3]1901; GRO [6]birth, [4]marriage & [5]death records;