Iain wrote:Hi Mturnat ! Perhaps if you give her DOB and husband's name, someone might be able to look it up for you.
Thanks, I know that already. My post was probably not that clear, but I am looking for Isabella, known as Bella Bannatyne who was a spinster and was renowned as a fierce business woman in the town. According to what has been verbally said to me by older family members, she owned several liscensed properties in the Campbeltown and became quite wealthyas she was an astute businesswoman. At the time, I assume she astonded some of the very respectable ladies in the town as she competed with the men. I would like to find out more about her. I can find no trace of a birth record, nor can I find any trace of my Great Grand mother's birth. According to the census she was born in Saddell. I have found a birth record for a younger sister Rose in 1847 in Saddell and Skipness. According to my mother Bella died about 1919. My mum, who is now deceased was very young but she recalled going to Campbeltown from Glasgow to the funeral with her mother, Susan Watson, and was Bella's niece.