[3] The family moved to 59 Queens Road in Aberdeen when her father was created Sheriff Substitute for Aberdeenshire around 1890.

She briefly worked in the office of Jenkins and Marr, before marrying her former tutor, architect Thomas Harold Hughes (1887–1949), in 1918.

[1] Hughes and her husband were refused a place in Burnet's London office, partly because there was no female lavatory.

Disagreement with another partner led to his departing the following year, to take up teaching at the Glasgow School of Art, where he later became head of architecture.

The grave lies on the main west path on its east side, where the ground level drops to the lower south section.

[8] In her own work, she concentrated on domestic commissions, including many residential alterations, and specialised in kitchen design.