Isabella Brown
Mclachlan
4 March 1873 — 15 February 1943
Father
John Mclachlan
1840 – 1889
Mother
Francis “Fanny” Marshall
1838 – 1919
Siblings
Elizabeth McLachlan, Frances McLachlan, John McLachlan, Margaret McLachlan
Children
Biography
Isabella married Thomas Lorimer in Glasgow on March 23, 1894 at a building on St Vincent’s Crescent that was built in the mid-1850s by architect Alexander Kirkland. The couple’s first child, Frances, was born a year later in 1895 and named after Isabella’s mother. Five more children followed: Thomas Jr was born in 1897, Isabella Jr in 1889, Dugald in 1900, John in 1908 and Mabel in 1909.
At the time of the 1901 census, the family was living at 45 Centre Street in Glasgow. Census records from 1911 are not publically available, but can be viewed for a fee on the ScotlandsPeople website.
In 1916, Isabella’s oldest son Thomas Jr was stationed in France as part of the 1st Battalion of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He was killed on 15 August at the age of 20 during the Battle of the Somme. The family was living at 21 Dale Street, Glasgow at the time of the tragedy.
In 1926, Isabella boarded the SS Letitia with her husband and their children Mabel and John to start a new life in Canada. They arrived in Quebec on 20 June 1926 after a 9-day journey across the Atlantic, and settled in Ontario, Canada.
Isabella Lorimer passed away from heart disease on 15 February 1943 at 69 years of age. She is buried in White Brick Church Cemetery in Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada with her husband and their children Mabel and Isobel.
Gallery
Sources
1881 Scotland Census; Ancestry.com. 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007 (accessed 25 April 2020). Original Source: Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. Reels 1-338. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 40; Page: 21; Line: 12; Roll: cssct1881_224. Transcription.
1901 Scotland Census; Ancestry.com. 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007 (accessed 21 April 2020). Original Source: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Parish: Glasgow Springburn; ED: 80; Page: 3; Line: 1; Roll: CSSCT1901_290. Transcription.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (Online database), <https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/553471/lorimer,-thomas>, accessed 8 February 2020. (Entry for Private Thomas Lorimer, S/20441)
“Fanny Marshall death certificate“; Public user history content published by user willowendlea on 22 January 2017. Ancestry.com. (Accessed 25 April 2020). Digital image.
Isabella Lorimer in Canadian Passenger Lists; Ancestry.com. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. (accessed 24 April 2020). Original Source: Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Passenger Lists, 1865–1935; Series: RG 76-C; Roll: T-14723. Department of Employment and Immigration fonds. Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Digital image.
Photo of SS Athenia from Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives (GGA). GGA Image ID #115f375cab. <https://www.ggarchives.com/OceanTravel/Brochures/AnchDnldsn-1926-LetitiaAndAthenia.html>. Accessed 30 September 2025.
Death record for Isabella Lorimer; Ancestry.com. Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1947 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010 (accessed 24 April 2020). Original Source: Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Deaths, 1943; Collection: Registrations of Deaths, 1943. Digital image.
Canadian Headstones, database and images (https://canadianheadstones.com : accessed 20 April 2020), headstone details for Thomas Lorimer, citing White Brick Cemetery, Ontario, Canada ; submitted by glanbrookheritage@yahoo.ca on 2012-02-14.
Isabella McLachlan in Statutory registers Marriages. Scotland. Anderston, Glasgow. 1894. 644/10 92. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Accessed 17 November 2021.
“Sold properties: St Vincent Crescent”, https://www.clydeproperty.co.uk/property/HR04486; © Clyde Property 2018. Accessed 17 November 2021.
Dugald McCorkindale Lorimer in Statutory registers Births. Scotland. St Rollox, Lanark. 1900. 644/6 633. https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Accessed 17 November 2021.