Isobel Spring (1762-aft1818)

Genealogy

 * Sex: Female
 * Christened: 25, Banchory-Ternan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
 * Died: after 1819
 * Buried: unknown

Pedigree
Isobel Spring was the daughter of Robert Spring, gardener in Banchory-Ternan and later Udny. Her mother may have been Margaret Marns.

Siblings

 * George (b. 1760, Banchory-Ternan; not known after)
 * Mary (b. 1764, Udny; not known to have married)
 * Christian (b. 1768, Udny; married Archibald Farquharson of Finzean; d. 1849, Lumphanan)
 * Robert (b. 1771, Udny; married Margaret Gordon; d. 1860, Aberdeen)

Spouses

 * Robert Sherrat, m. 8 Dec 1796 in Old Machar. (The same marriage was later recorded 24 Dec 1797 in Nigg.)

Offspring

 * 1) Christian (b. 1797, Birse; married James Cattanach; emigrated to Canada; d. aft 1881)
 * 2) Mary (b. 1799, Birse; married Robert Cromar and James Shaw; lived in Lumphanan; d. 1871, Glenmuick)
 * 3) Archibald Farquharson (b. 1802, Birse; emigrated to Canada; married Mary Morgan there; d. aft 1881)
 * 4) Isabel (b. 1805, Birse; not known aft 1819)

Biography
Isobel Spring was born in 1762 in Banchory, outside Aberdeen, the second of five children. Her family moved to Udny before she was 2 years old. In 1796, at age 34, she married Robert Sherrat, a gardener in Nigg, who may have been many years younger than she was. About this same time, her sister Christian, who had married an aging laird, became a widow with a very young child. Isobel and her new husband joined Christian on the Finzean estate in Birse, where Robert became the overseer. They had four children while living at Finzean. Sometime between 1808 and 1812, the family moved to nearby Tillyfruskie where they remained until Robert died in 1818. As a widow, Isobel moved in with her daughter Christian's new family in Woodend. We have no further record of Isobel after 1819.

Disambiguation
An online search of Church of Scotland records (which are comprehensively extracted in the IGI) shows no other Isobel Spring in this time and place, though there are three others born a generation earlier, all in Keithhall & Kinkell, in 1708, 1716, and 1733.

Contributors
TomChatt