Ann Carnie was born in Dunipace near Falkirk on 21 January 1807 to Thomas Carnie and Margaret Henry. She married Henry Dunlop on 25 April 1826 (aged 19; he was 26). Their daughter Margaret Anne was born on 19 May 1827 and son James on 8 October 1828.
She must have
been staying in Torquay when James was born as he reported this as his
birthplace in all censuses. Ann's younger sister Clementina
died there and four days later on 21 April 1829 Ann herself died. The
closeness of their death's implies epidemic - maybe cholera but more
likely smallpox or typhus. Their funeral was held at Largs Parish
Church on 14 May.
James and Margaret
Margaret Anne died aged 10 and her funeral was on 20 March 1838.
James's birth was registered in Govan (Craigton). He went on to marry Mary Louisa Herd in London in 1871 (she aged 30; he 43) and died at the age of 69.
In the pencil drawing of Craigton House dated 1847 there are six figures in the foreground. The young gentleman may be James (28); the young woman to the rear Elizabeth (15) and the two young boys might be Colin (6) and Robert (4). The two ladies are perhaps the Mrs Dunlops - Bruce (widow aged 78) and Alexina (43). Missing would therefore be Henry (13), John (11) and Charles (9). Alexina (6) had died the previous year. It seems that the younger children lived at Broomfield Cottage in Largs with Alexina’s older sister Margaret and a governess. By the age of nine they moved to Craigton House to live with their parents, a tutor and eight servants.