Person:Margaret Lumsden (1)

Margaret Thomson Lumsden was born 5oct1875 at Redgorton and died 13feb1949 at Navity, Cromarty (scotlandspeople, A. Lumsden). Margaret was probably known as Minna; she married and had children (family letters). Margaret (Minna), widow of Douglas Morison of Navity, daughter of late David Lumsden of Fincastle and Pitcairnfield, died 13feb1949 at Navity, Cromarty (Times). Margaret Lumsden married Douglas Morison 1904 (scotlandspeople). Margaret Thomson Morison nee Lumsden (b. 1876) died 1949 (scotlandspeople). From www.cromartylivingbythesea.co.uk <http://www.cromartylivingbythesea.co.uk> Jack Mackay was involved in what a newspaper described as an amazing rescue in the Moray Firth in 1938. He was just 17 and was working at the harvest at Navity Farm along with another two men, Donald Macfarlane and George Finlayson, when they noticed a plane in difficulties. Both the occupants jumped out. One parachute opened and the other fixed on the tail of the plane.The paper said the men rushed to the seashore, down over the steep cliffs. Mackay and Finlayson swam out to the plane and got the airman extracted from his parachute. Mackay then turned the officer over and, using the life-saving method, swam with him until Finlayson got a rope from MacFarlane on the shore. Mackay tied the rope round the airman and got him ashore and over the rocks. Mackay was slightly bruised by the rocks when landing.They carried the airman to the salmon fishers’ bothy. Captain Douglas Morison and others arrived from Navity Farm and rendered first aid. Local doctors and nurses came soon afterwards and helped revive the pilot. The rescued officer was Pilot Flying Officer Duncan Whiteley Balden, attached to HMS Courageous. He was taken on board a destroyer which had sped to the scene. The paper finished by saying that the gallant men who swam out to the rescue fully clothed were fortunately none the worse for their thrilling experience.The men were later guests of Admiral Royle RN and the officers of HMS Courageous and spent a day at sea on the aircraft carrier.Miss Molly Morison of Navity later married Flight Lieut. Balden on 3rd Sept 1938 in the East Church in Cromarty. The three men were invited to the wedding and later received Royal Humane Society Award Certificates.

In 1891 scholars Margaret (1876) and Isabella M. (1877 Redgorton) boarded at Edinburgh (census).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 National Records of Scotland. Scotlandspeople.
2.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
3.   Family letters.
4.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).
5.   General Register Office for Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh).