Mrs Emma Grierson-Yorstoun
(1822-1886)
17 April 1861

Volume 3, page 101, sitting number 3096.

[Misidentified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Mrs Grierson-Torstoun' in ink and as 'Mrs Grierson-Forstoun' in pencil, this is in fact Mrs Grierson-Yorstoun, the wife of William Grierson Yorstoun, whose names were sometimes hyphenated].

A short report of the marriage appeared in the Perthshire Courier (8 August 1844): 'At London, on the 1st instant, Wm. Grierson Yorstoun, Esq., of Garroch, Kirkcudbright, to Emma, only daughter of the late William Parker, Esq., of Sunderland.'

In 1842 William Grierson Yorstoun was the author of a pamphlet entitled 'An Inquiry into the Duties of the Landlords of Scotland to the Peasantry,' in which he argued that, rather than emigration, the only solution to the overpopulation of the Western Isles was 'spontaneous and natural employment.'

Mrs Emma Grierson-Yorstoun died, aged 64, on 19 December 1884 at 20 Lansdown Place in Cheltenham (Cheltenham Mercury, 25 December 1886). According to the abstract of her will, she also resided at 'Ballingear in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright.' She left effects valued at £9712.