Isabella was Thomas and Isabella Wellwood Dougan’s fourth child. She was born in Scotland, most likely in Pollockshaw. Her age in 1861 is given as 6 years and in 1871 as age 16. She was likely born in 1854 or early 1855. In 1872 when she was 17, she married William Donnolly in Fall River, Mass. I did find a record for a William and Bella Donnelly in Providence, RI in the 1880 census, but the age given for each was 22 years. I can find no definitive information for Isabella after her marriage to William. One interesting item: she married on the same day as her sister Mary and the same minister performed the wedding. I suspect the sisters had a double wedding ceremony!
The next child was Ann, born in Pollockshaw on March 16, 1857. Ann died on Jan. 26, 1859 in Glasgow of Gastric Fever. At the time of Ann’s death the Dougans were living at 63 Soho Street in Glasgow. I was directed to a photograph of that street through the online collection of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow: http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/index.php?a=street&s=item&key=rYToxOntpOjA7czo3OiJTb2hvIFN0Ijt9&pg=1 and although not the exact address, it shows the close quarters they lived in there. I can’t help but wonder if the gastric fever little Ann died of was a form of typhoid.
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