I went up to lumphanan to look at my great gran aunty Helen Mcarthur's daughter's grave. Helen regesterd her childs name Betsy Mc Phee b. up the Cairnie in 1877 and berried in lumphanan. Stanley Robertson and my grandmother maggie stewart told storys of a old travelling women called ALD BETT that smoked a clay cutty smoking pipe and her name was old Bet. this was the same old women my grandmother maggie stewart talked about in her storys.
when maggie was comeing out of aberdeen with her father and her mother, maggie was aged 10 years old. ALD BETT she is berried under, the name ELIZABETH STEWART when she should of been named under MC Donald. she is berried up beside the wall across from Stanley Robertson's grave. ALD BETT - Elizabeth Stewart, was Maxie Mc Donald's grand mother, my grand father james stewart, (Big Ma Hungery) he was Called amung the Traveller's. James was a Cousin to Maxie MC Donald. Helen Mc Arthur was the oldest sister to Cathrine (Kate) McArthur B. 1870 Elgin. She was my grandfather, James Stewart's Mother, james his grandfather was James McArthur and his grandmother was Mary Ann MCPhee.