Deaconess
Ella Pirrie
Alice Maud Maxwell
Anna Ritchie
Annabella Park was born in 1884, the daughter of William Park, Farmer, and Elizabeth Barron.
She was educated at New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire. She graduated from Edinburgh University and then trained as a teacher at Dalry House, the Episcopalian teacher training college.
She married Tom Smith, a headmaster, but he died young.
In 1931 she returned home to care for her elderly widowed mother.
She married local doctor, James Ritchie, a widower on 26th December 1934. He died the following morning.
Lady Grisell Baillie (1822-1891)
Grisell Baillie was the youngest daughter of Mary Pringle and George Baillie. She grew up in Mellerstain, the Georgian mansion near Kelso where her great-great-grandmother – also called Lady Grisell Baillie – lived before her. Her eldest brother became the 10th Earl of Haddington in 1858 when the 9th Earl died without a heir, and Grisell Baillie was given the courtesy title of 'Lady' by Queen Victoria.