William Macduff
(1824-1881)
9 May 1865

Volume 12, page 292, sitting number 16,315.

Born on 12 May 1824 at Scone in Perthshire, William Macduff was the son of Alexander and Margaret Catherine Macduff (née Ross).

In 1865 in Kensington he married Isobel Campbell Thomson, daughter of the late Robert Craig Thomson, a merchant in the West Indies. At the time of the marriage, he gave his profession as 'Artist.'

His wife died the following year. The cause of death was kidney disease. 

William appears on the 1871 census living at Inveralmond House at Cramond in Perthshire with his widowed mother Margaret C. Macduff, a niece and nephew, and three servants. He again gave 'Artist' as his profession.

On 30 November 1871 at Christ Church in Hampstead he married secondly Arabella Filisberta da Silva Lima, daughter of merchant Joaquin José da Silva Lima. 

The couple appear on the 1881 census living at Furze Hill, Hambledon, Surrey. William described himself as an 'Artist in Painting.'

He died, aged 57, later that year on 18 July 1881 at Hambledon, leaving an estate valued at £1656.