Christina Cleland Thomson
(1805-1899)
21 June 1865

Volume 12, page 330, sitting number 16,468.

Born at Glasgow in or about 1805, Christina Cleland Thomson was the daughter of Andrew Thomson, a banker in Glasgow. 

She appears on the 1861 census, living in Islington with her widowed mother Jane Thomson and her 25-year-old daughter Isobel Thomson. Her daughter had been born in the West Indies in or about 1836. All three women gave 'Fundholder' as their source of income. 

Her daughter married the artist William Macduff in Kensington in 1865 but died of kidney disease the following year. 

Christina Thomson appears on the 1871 census, living at 2 Durham Villas in Kensington with two domestic servants. She was still at the same address in 1881 and 1891. According to the 1881 census, she had an 'Inc[ome] der[ived] from [a] Life Ins[urance] policy & other sources.'

She died, aged 95, on the last day of the century, 31 December 1899, at 2 Durham Villas in Kensington, leaving an estate valued at £4702. She had never married and the abstract of her will specifically describes her as a 'spinster,'