Marion Veitch

Marion Veitch born Marion Fairlie (1639 – 9 May, 1722) was a Scottish Presbyterian diarist who at times was exiled by her family's religion before the Glorious Revolution.

Marion Veitch
Born
Marion Fairlie

1639
Edinburgh
Died9 May, 1722
Dumfries
NationalityKingdom of Scotland
Known forher diary
Spouse(s)William Veitch

Life

Veitch was born in Edinburgh and baptised at the end of 1639. Her parents were the shoemaker James and his wife Euphan Kincaid Fairlie. In 1664 she married in the High Kirk of Lanark, William Veitch who was a minister. They were Presbytarian and their lives were made difficult. At times they lived outside Scotland and at times they lived apart. Irrespective they had ten children including Samuel Vetch who went on to be Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. She spent five years at Hanham Hall and her time living in Newcastle was only brought to an end in 1688 by the Glorious Revolution in Scotland. She and her husband were allowed to return to Scotland. Her husband became a minister at Peebles. They moved to Dumfries where they both died. Veitch died in 1722, the day after William.[1]

Legacy

The free church of Scotland published her memoirs in 1846. Unlike her husband's memoir, her diary included an account of the death of four of her children to the will of God.[2]

References
  1. "Veitch [née Fairlie], Marion (1639–1722), diarist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/45831. Retrieved 2019-05-09. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. NA NA (30 April 2016). Representations of Childhood Death. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-349-62340-2.
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