Margaret Stuart Bruce

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name Change: 19 May 1829; Name change to Tyndall-Bruce, by Royal consent. Announced in The London Gazette
• Residence: 2 Apr 1841, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; Address is where Margaret Tyndall-Bruce's aunt, also Margaret, died in 1831. States age as 50 (b1791)
• Philanthropy: 26 May 1850, Falkland Parish Church, Falkland, Fife, Scotland; A new church at the expense of the Tyndall Bruces for their Falklander neighbours. Church opened 26th May 1850 (see 'Memorial')
• Residence: 2 Apr 1851, Falkland House, Falkland, Fife, Scotland; At home in Falkland. States age as 62 (b1789)
• Memorial: Aft 7 Nov 1869, Falkland Parish Church, Falkland, Fife, Scotland; Memorial on the East wall of the church that was built at the Tyndall Bruce's expense. They are both buried in a vault constructed against this same wall. Church opened 26th May 1850 which is the Sunday following Margaret\'s birthday.
• Obituary: 11 Nov 1869, Journal, Luxembourg, Belgium; This is one of a number of references from 'newspaper index cards' in the Cupar Library, Cupar, Scotland that relate to the Tyndall Bruces appearance in the press (see web link below r)
• Unspecified: 14 Feb 1870, Principal, Azuay, Ecuador

Notes:

Birth:
"Col. Bruce’s daughter, Margaret, was born, on 22nd May 1788 in India. Her mother’s name and station in life is not on record; all that is known is that she was a 'native lady’." "The Tyndall Bruces of Falkland" by Thomas Playfair & Elizabeth M Webster

Died:
Pneumonia, 3 days. States age as 88 (b1781). Her nephew, who was present at death, was Francis Edmund Stacey, husband of Theodosia Tyndall, who was the niece of Onesiphorus Tyndall-Bruce. The Stacey family owned Llandough Castle in Wales

Margaret married Onesiphorus Tyndall on 13 Mar 1828 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Onesiphorus (son of Thomas Tyndall and Marrianne Schimmelpennick) was born on 11 Feb 1790 in Bristol, Gloucestershire; died on 19 Mar 1855 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]