Isabella Yeudall was born on the 20th of November and baptised on the 10th of December 1854, both at Galston.

Oddly, Isabella's name does not appear in the family home for the 1861 census. Note however the entry for the household of her grandfather, William Yeudall, in Henrietta Street, for the same census: Isabella Yeudall, granddaur, 6, scholar, b. Galston. Presumably she had gone to stay with her grandparents' already large family, following the death of her mother, Jean Forsyth in 1858, when Isabella was just four years of age. This appears to have been a permanent arrangement, as she was still there ten years later in 1871. Isabella was married to Matthew Haddow Paton on the 29th of June 1877, at Barr St., Galston, after banns according to the forms of the Established Church of Scotland. The witnesses were Thomas Paton and Elizabeth Yeudall. Elizabeth was almost certainly Isabella's elder sister, who was born in 1852. Isabella Yeudall died at 24, Polwarth Street, Galston, on the 3rd of June 1924, at 10.58 a.m. She was entered as 69 years of age. The cause of death was certified as 'valvular disease of heart (unknown)'. It is understood that a family heirloom, the grandfather clock manufactured by Breckenridge of Kilmarnock, now in the ownership of the present Robert Cunningham, was originally acquired by Isabella Yeudall. Her daughter, Isabella Paton, used to say in her later years that whenever the clock chimed, it was like her late mother talking to her.

The lady in this photograph, suspected to depict Isabella Yeudall with her husband Matthew Haddow Paton, stands close comparison with the lady with the pram (above) although the two images are clearly separated by several decades.

Brothers and Sisters

On the OPR entry for her birth and baptism, Isabella was entered as the third child of the family.

She had two known sisters, Mary, born on the 17th of September 1849 and baptised on the 4th of November, and Elizabeth, born on the 9th of June 1852 and baptised on the 30th. The relevant OPR entry stated that Elizabeth was the second child of the family.

There was a brother called William, who died aged just one year old, on the tenth of July 1858, at 5.45 a.m. at Henrietta Street, Galston. The cause of death was consumption, from which he had been suffering for six months. He was buried in the parish churchyard at Galston, five months after the death of his mother, Jean Forsyth.

In addition to these two sisters and a brother, a number of half-siblings following father Abram Yeudall's marriage to second wife Grace Kay are known:

1. William was born on the 6th of March 1860.

2. John Alexander Yeudall was born on the 26th of October 1862.

3. Cecilia Watson Yeudall was born at Galston on the 2nd of November 1866. She died on the 13th of June 1869 at 6h 10m p.m. at Barr Street, Galston. Her age was entered as two and a half years. The cause of death was certified as congestion of the brain, from which she had been suffering for two days.

4. Martha was born on the 11th of March 1869.

5. Abram was born on the 26th of May 1872.

6. Cecilia Jane was born on the 21st of September 1874.