Scott, Mary Copland
Mary Copland Scott was the wife of Thomas Dickson Scott and lived in 2 Percy Terrace Bellingham in 1921. She was born in Castleton, Roxburghshire on 28 January 1891. Her mother was Myrtle, her father’s name is unknown. When she was 2 months old in 1891 at Duilabyre Cottage, Castleton she was in the care of her grandparents James and Isabella Hall. Ten years later she was still with her grandparents but in the Casual Sick Poorhouse, Castleton. In the Riding, Bellingham in 1911, she was a domestic servant in the home of John Stott Bell, a farmer and his wife Janet Blackie Bell. In the second quarter of 1914 she married coal hewer, Thomas Dickson Scott. They had three sons – James Scott (born 1915) and Douglas Scott (1918) and Thomas Scott (1920). In 1939 Thomas and Mary were living at 1 High Street, Bellingham. Mary’s death was registered in the third quarter of 1968.