David Downie and Mary Chalmers Spence
m 11 July 1846 Colinton, Midlothian
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David Downie
Journeyman Plumber, Papermill Foreman
b 25 October 1862 Colinton, Midlothian
d 1 February 1942, buried Inveresk Churchyard
m 2 January 1860 Colinton, Midlothian
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Mary Chalmers Spence
b 24 June 1862 Colinton, Midlothian
d 10 February 1962 East Linton, East Lothian
m 3 June 1887 Juniper Green, Colinton, Midlothian
David Downie
Primary Head Teacher
b 27 February 1888
Musselburgh, Midlothian
m Ruby Hamilton 21 June 1916 Lochgilphead, Argyllshire
d 1980 Lochgilphead, Argyllshire
Margaret Hardie Downie
b 13 Aug 1889
Musselburgh, Midlothian
d 24 Apr 1894
Musselburgh
in house fire aged 4
Helen Lawson Downie
Primary Head Teacher
b 7 Feb 1891
Musselburgh, Midlothian
d 11 February 1991
Dunbar, East Lothian
aged 100
Mary Chalmers Spence Downie
b 4 March 1895
Musselburgh, Midlothian
m Harold John Ward
21 Dec 1918 Musselburgh
d 9 June 1970
Arvida, Québec, Canada
Robert Spence Downie
Insurance Clerk
b 3 Jan 1898 Musselburgh, Midlothian
m Henrietta Dodds
16 Sep 1922 Edinburgh
d 3 April 1978
Lundin Links, Fife
Three of the children of David Downie and Mary Chalmers Spence became teachers, David Downie and Helen Lawson Downie ending their careers as Primary School Head Teachers in Innerwick and East Linton respectively. Both David Downie and Mary Chalmers Spence Downie graduated M.A. from the University of Edinburgh, Mary spending a brief period as a teacher before her marriage. They were the first of my line of Downies to graduate from a University.
