March 14th

Today we're off back to LUSS - the village on Loch Lomond in Dunbartonshire - north of Glasgow.  There, on this day in 1872, Catherine Mcintyre Fisken was born.  She is your 1st cousin 3X removed.  Your 4X great grandfather, Alexander Fisken is Catherine's father.

As I have mentioned before I think - The Fiskens are from Perthshire on the east side of Scotland but some of them moved over to Dunbartonshire.  Not sure that I understand yet why that would be.  The Fiskens were farming folk and sawyers.  But I'll get that figured out sometime - but for now, I just wanted to note that Catherine's father was born and grew up in Perthshire then headed to Luss where he married Mary Ann Watt.

But back to Catherine.  It's her 147th birthday today.  She was the 7th child for Alexander and Mary Anne - and she was their last.  Sadly, Mum died just a couple of weeks after giving birth.  Her dad re-married the following year (to Granny Fisken - of Granny Fisken's cottage fame) and then Catherine and her siblings got five half siblings!

Unfortunately, I can find nothing about Catherine beyond the fact that she was born.

Granny Fisken's Cottage