Catherine Duff ^{1 2}

   Another name for Catherine was Catharine Duff.

  Research Notes:

JAL has her will dated 7 Oct 1882
She left money to Janet Wallace, her daughter residing with her in Tain
To John Duff Wallace of New York and Liverpool £700
To Flora Wallace £500
To Williamina Duff Wallace/Duff of NZ, £700
Grandson John Wallace Ross son of deceased daughter Mary Ross £500

  Burial Notes:

Inscription on gravestone:
In memory of/CATHERINE WALLACE/who died in Tain/on the 28 September 1882/aged 81 years/also in remembrance of/JANET DUFF WALLACE/wife of DONALD MUNRO/chief constable/of Ross and Cromarty/who died on the 28th Nov. 1886/aged 43 years.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: Scotland, 1841, Rosskeen, Ross-shire (Ross and Cromarty), Scotland. ⁵ Piece: SCT1841/81 Place: Rosskeen -Ross and Cromarty Enumeration District: 2
Civil Parish: Rosskeen Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 0 Page: 3
Address: Milleraig

WALLACE Catherine F 39 born Ross and Cromarty

• Census: Scotland, 1861, Tarbat, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. ⁶

• Census: Scotland, 1871, Tain, Ross and Cromarty, (Highland), Scotland.

Catherine married John Wallace [II] of Tain, formerly Milcraig & Seafield, son of John Wallace [I] [of Bonar Bridge, Tain] and Janet Grant, on 2 Jun 1835 in Brucefield, <Clackmannanshire>, Scotland. (John Wallace [II] of Tain, formerly Milcraig & Seafield was born in Oct 1780 in Ross-shire (Ross and Cromarty), Scotland,⁷ died on 19 Jun 1873 in Tain, Ross-shire, (Ross and Cromarty, Highland), Scotland and was buried in Nonikiln, Tain, Ross-shire (Ross and Cromarty), Scotland ⁸.)

  Marriage Notes:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alastair&id=I241

Note: Said to have carried off his bride on the back of a horse against her father's wishes.

The marriage was recorded in Rosskeen as 2 Jun 1835.
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