MARY (b. 1842) (Great-grandmother of Maggie Le Mesurier) (Position 19 on the Genealogy Report.) Mary was born on 21 April 1842, in the Barony parish, Glasgow.  She died at Ledcamerock Crescent, Bearsden, Glasgow, on 13 March 1922, aged 79.  Mary married William Martin in 3 Germiston Street, Glasgow, on 18 June 1862, when she was 20 years old.  (Her father died at 3 Germiston Street in 1869, one might assume, therefore, that Mary was married in the family home.)  William, the son of George Martin and Catherine Luke, was born about 1835, and died in 29 Scotia Street, Glasgow, when he was 45 years of age.  Mary and William had five children: George, born on 17 March 1863, in Blythswood, Glasgow. Alexander, born on 30 June 1864, in Milton, Glasgow.  Alexander died in New York City on 29 May 1910, when he was 45 years of age. Joseph, born on 23 March 1866, in Milton, Glasgow. Elizabeth, born on 18 October 1867, in Milton, Glasgow.  Elizabeth died in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, on 14 October 1916, aged 48.  She married John Maxwell on 8 June 1899, in 34 Rupert Street, Glasgow.  John was the son of John Maxwell and Janet (Jessie) Leishaman, and was born about 1849.  He died in Glasgow on 19 December 1930, aged 81.  Elizabeth and John had two children: John (b. 1900), and Mary (Maggie Le Mesurier's mother) who was born in 1903. William, born on 14 April 1871 in 33 Shamrock Street, Glasgow.  William, and his older brother Joseph, were both engineers.  Both boys emigrated to South Africa, although it is not known exactly when.  They are known to have fought for the Boers at some time, and it is assumed that they took the side of the Boers against the British in the Second Boer War (1899-1902).  They are said to have been granted a tract of land after the war at Umtali, presumably by the Boer authorities when they were once again self-governing, and presumably in recognition of their services during the war. They developed the grant of land as a gold mine, but with only moderate success it would seem.  They were both very religious, and wrote long religious tracts.  One brother is thought to have married, but the other remained single.  When the single brother died, because he had no issue, he left his money to a Dunlop relative in South Africa.  The relative is said to have been a judge, but nothing is known about him.  (It is known that there was a Thomas Cameron Dunlop MD, born in Glasgow about 1861, who died in Cape Town on 31 March 1901, and it is thought possible that he and the judge might have been related.)

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