Susan Faed

[1] Susan was born on 8 June 1827 the only daughter of the six children of James Faed (1777-1842), a tenant farmer at Barlay Mill in Girthon parish, near Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, and his wife Mary McGeoch (1790-1866).

He lived in a very large Georgian house at 6 SW Circus Place in the Stockbridge district.

[2] They appear on the 1851 census but some time in the 1850s, following the death of George in 1852, she returned to Gatehouse of Fleet with her mother.,[3][4] probably to live with an uncle.

From the summer of 1902 until his death in October of that year she cared for her brother John and he was buried at Girthon churchyard.

in 1887 aged 59 she married John Walthew JP of Wood Hall, Stockport, a widower.