• Born: Abt 1836, Irvine, Dundonald Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland ^{1 3}
• Marriage (1): James JAFFREY on 3 September 1858 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ¹
• Died: 6 August 1911, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland about age 75 ¹

   Cause of her death was Burns, Shock; As Cert by J. Burnett Lawson, M.D..¹

   Other names for Elizabeth were Elisabeth BLAIR, Elizabeth JAFFRAY, Elizabeth JAFFREY and Elizabeth JEFFREY.^{1 3}

  Death Notes

4 h. 20m. a.m., Victoria Hospital, Rothesay, Usual Residence 13 Bridge Street; Age at death 75 years.

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She appeared on the 1851 Census of Scotland on 30 March 1851 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  

Alexander Blair   Head       45   Irvine, Ayr       Fisher
Mary Blair        Wife       38   Kilmarnock, Ayr
Mary Blair        Daughter   16   Dundonald, Ayr
Elisabeth Blair   Daughter   14   Dundonald, Ayr
Jane Blair        Daughter   12   Dundonald, Ayr
Margaret Blair    Daughter   10   Dundonald, Ayr    Scholar
Agness Blair      Daughter    8   Dundonald, Ayr    Scholar
Alexander Blair   Son         6   Dundonald, Ayr
George Blair      Son         4   Dundonald, Ayr
John Blair        Son         2   Dundonald, Ayr
Campbelle Blair   Son       1 Mo  Dundonald, Ayr
James Robertson   Servant    19   Ney, Inverness    Fisherman

• She appeared on the 1881 Census of Scotland on 3 April 1881 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland.
  

James Jaffray       Head   42   Irvine, Aryshire         Fisherman
Elizabeth Jaffray   Wife   43   Irvine, Aryshire         Fisherman's Wife
Elizabeth Jaffray   Dau    16   Irvine, Aryshire         Cately Domestic Servant
James Jaffray       Son    12   Greenock, Renfrewshire   Scholar
Alexander Jaffray   Son     8   Rothesay, Buteshire      Scholar
Robert Jaffray      Son     6   Rothesay, Buteshire
Sarah Jaffray       Dau     2   Rothesay, Buteshire

• Namesake:  About Marion Hamilton Jeffrey...
  
  Marion Hamilton Jeffrey was born 18 May 1883 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland, and died 1888 in Rothesay when she was only 4 years old. She was the daughter of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Blair.
  
  Marion was named after her uncle Robert Jeffrey's wife, Marion Hamilton.  Robert was her father's youngest brother, born 22 Sep 1849 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland (12 years after her father James was born). On 21 Oct 1880, Robert married Marion Hamilton, the daughter of John Hamilton and Marion Paton, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. Irvine is where James and Robert were both born, and where Marion Hamilton was born on 21 Jan 1856.
  
  When Robert got married he was a mercantile clerk, and although he was born in Irvine, he was then living in Georgetown, Guyana. So after they wed in Irvine, Robert took his new bride to Georgetown. She gave birth to an infant daughter in 1881. Likely the daughter was named Marion Jeffrey (perhaps Marion Paton Jeffrey, or Marion Hamilton Jeffrey), although since the records were in Guyana the name is not presently known. Unfortunately, both mother and infant daughter died of yellow fever in Georgetown on 17 Oct 1881, just a half-week shy of the mother's first year wedding anniversary.
  
  Robert erected a monument in Irvine Churchyard in memory of Marion Hamilton and his infant daughter. And so that's why Robert's brother James and his wife Elizabeth Blair named their last daughter Marion Hamilton Jeffrey.
  
  The story of Marion's name is a sad legacy, made even more sorrowful since she also died young.
  
  However, Marion's brother James Jeffrey (b. 1869 in Greenock, son of James Jeffrey and Elizabeth Blair) also had a daughter he named Marion Hamilton Jeffrey (in this case, named after his baby sister). This second Marion Hamilton Jeffrey was born in 28 March 1905 in Rothesay, and she lived to the age of 80 years old. She emigrated with her family to New Zealand in 1909 and married John Richard Callon in 1927.

• She appeared on the 1891 Census of Scotland on 5 April 1891 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland.
  
  Margaret Howard       70
  Elizabeth Jeffrey       52
  Mary Jeffrey       28
  Elizabeth Thomson       25
  James Thomson       25
  Robert Jeffrey       16
  Sarah Jeffrey       11

• She appeared on the 1911 Census of Scotland on 2 April 1911 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland. ³
  

Elizabeth Thomson   Head     F   44   W*      Fishmonger           Ayr Irvine
Elizabeth    "      Daur     F   19   S       Assist. Fishmonger   Bute Rothesay
Catherine    "      Daur     F   18   S         "         "          "     "
Mary         "      Daur     F   16   S         "         "          "     "
James Jeffrey       Father   M   74   Mar     Retired Fisherman    Ayr Irvine
Elizabeth "         Mother   F   75   Mar**                        Ayr Irvine
   * Married 20 years, 3 children born alive, 3 children still living
   **Married 54 years, 9 children born alive, 6 children still living

• She resided at 13 Bridge Street in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland before 6 August 1911. ¹

Elizabeth married James JAFFREY, son of Robert JAFFREY and Sarah PATON, on 3 September 1858 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.¹ (James JAFFREY was born on 7 June 1837 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ^{3 4}, christened on 26 June 1837 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁴ and died on 25 May 1922 in Rothesay, Bute, Scotland ⁵.). The cause of his death was Arterio Sclerosis as cert. by J. Stewart Hall, M.B.Ch.B., D.P.H..¹