January 26th

On this day in 1885 Margaret Matthew died.

Margaret Matthew is your 4th great aunt.  This is on grandma's side of the family - the folks of Aberdeenshire.  Margaret's father,  Alexander Matthew. is your 4Xgreat grandfather.

Margaret died at 6:35 p.m. in the Greystone Croft in Monquhitter.  She was 77 years old.  She died of apoplexy which is what we would call a stroke.

Margaret was the third child of crofters Alexander Matthew and Mary Byres.  Her sister Ann is your 3X great grandmother.  She married very young and continued the crofting life with her husband John Morice with whom she had nine children.

I had said that we didn't have a picture of Greystone Croft but this seems to be it - à la Google Maps - 134 years after 4x great Auntie Margaret died there.