Daughter of George Rattray and Sarah Jane Butler, born on the 8th of February 1872, baptised on the 5th of May 1872 at Kenley, Coulsdon, Surrey
Never married
Died about 18th April 1960 at Hampton Hill, Middlesex
Elder sister of George Rattray,
living with her widowed mother at Highfield, Coulsdon, Surrey in
1881; they moved to Sunnyside, Hayes Lane, Coulsdon by
1891.
1901 Boarding in Swansea
1911 Living at 71, Lansdown Road, Croydon with her mother.
1939 Living at 1, Parkhill Road, Otford till about 1950.
Newnham 1892-1895 (but Newnham could not then award degrees, therefore took
degree at Trinity College, Dublin)
BA Trinity College Dublin
Swansea Intermediate School for Girls 1895-1901
Central Foundation Girls' School 1902-1903
Lady Holles' School, Hackney 1904-1918
Highbury Hill High School 1919-1930
Moved from Otley, Kent to 8, St James's Avenue, Hampton Hill, Middlesex when her niece Joan and family moved there about 1950. Was virtually housebound from that time. I (AJS) remember her coaching me in my 'times tables' in her room - she lived in the downstairs front room as a bed-sitter and never joined in the life of the family. I don't remember her dying in the house so I assume she spent her final months in a nursing home. We used to visit her in her cottage in Otley when I was a young child but I have just two memories - one of the lavender borders to her garden and the other of a little pottery house that she kept in her china cupboard into which you could put brown paper, light it and smoke would come out of the chimney. My sister now has the pottery house - and I have the cupboard. (2012).
Holidays:-
1915-16 Rhodesia
1920 Chamonix
More information yet to be sorted out - this information transferred from Family History Maker, entered maybe 20 years ago! No sources.
A Mary Rattray born 1872 travelled from Mombasa to Southampton in 1932.
Mary Rattray, of 1, Parkhill Road, Otford aged 67 arrived with June Paige (13) and Franciska Rattray (59) arrived at Liverpool from Cape Town aboard the "City of London" on the 20th of March 1939.
