A lot to write about...

The Ballyhennan UF church at Tarbet

  

While checking my family tree  for more possible descendants on direct lines  I noticed on another tree that one of my Lennox cousins was linked by marriage to a Reverend Alexander Prentice Telfer.  That is all it said no other data was included.  Google search produced so much more.. A ten page history with photographs The History of the Telfer Family quite an exciting find.

Rev.A P Telfer and Margaret Thomson Lennox

Margaret is my  first cousin 4 x removed  born in 1862 in Ayr, Scotland from the the second marriage of Alexander Lennox (1795-1872) to Mary Thomson.  Alexander's first wife Elizabeth Storey Baird died in 1847 leaving him with four children.  Twelve years later he married Mary, he was 63 and she was 30. They had four children together.  Alexander died one year after their youngest daughter was born. Census records show the older children from the first marriage did not live with Mary but with their brothers and sisters but all the children seemed close and in touch with each other.

From the written history I learned that my cousin Margaret met Alexander Telford in Edinburgh at the Ladies Training College on Queens Street where he was a teacher and she a pupil although it was some years before they got together. In 1888 Alexander was ordained and appointed to be a minister at the Free Church Missionary College in Calcutta, India.  A year later Margaret followed him to Calcutta and they were married there.in 1889 he was 34 and she was 27. One daughter Mary Evelyn (nicknamed Mamie) was born there in 1892.  Bad health forced him from India and back to Scotland where he took up the ministry at the church in Tarbet close to Loch Lomand.  they had 3 more daughters Margaret, Jean and Florence...

"The four disgraces" about 1911
Left to right  Margaret. Mary E, Jean and Florence

Too much for me to write here but so many interesting insights in to their lives over the time thy lived in the Manse in Tarbet. The eldest daughter Mary E or Mamie as they called her married a missionary and went to Africa.  Jean became a doctor and married a famous physicist  Sir David Paton Cuthbertson.

Margaret and Jean Telfer  double wedding 1928

The Reverend  and my cousin Margaret  and daughter Jean outside the Manse.