Helen Mackellar (née Stirling)

Helen Mackellar (née Stirling), wife of Rev. Angus Mackellar (q.v.), inherited part-share in Hampden and Kerr estates in Jamaica from her father William Stirling (1725-1793).

1. Parents William Stirling and Jane [or Jean] Stuart. Born Cadder, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Married Rev. Angus MacKellar 17/0/1814; the Register of Proclamations for St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, gives her as Miss Helen Stirling, daughter of the late William Stirling Esqr of Keir, residing No 3 S[h]andwick Place. 1851 census: living at 8 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, with daughter Jane Ann MaKellar and four servants.

2. Archibald Stirling (q.v.) and Robert Stirling (q.v.) are her half-brothers by her father's first wife Helen Gray (born 1769 and 1772 respectively).

3. Gravestone inscription, Dean cemetery, Edinburgh: Rev Angus MaKellar, age 78, buried 1859; Helen Stirling, age 76, buried 1859; Jane Anne MaKellar, age 54, buried 1875; John Archibald MaKellar, age 54, buried 1877.

T71/873 St James No. 397; T71/874 Trelawny No. 553.

1. General Register Office for Scotland, Marriages 1814 716/2 345; General Register Office for Scotland, Marriages 1814 685/2 190 027. See also Hugh Scot, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae (Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1915-) Vol. 1 p. 387 for her husband Angus Makellar.

2. See separate entries for Archibald Stirling and Robert Stirling.

3. Www.gravestonephotos.com [accessed 06/08/2012].