[written by granddaughter-in-law Annie Watson Cowie, c.1936]

Mary Surtees the elder [name incorrect] had been widowed while still a young woman. She brought up her large family – the youngest was born after her husband's death – by sheer hard work of hands & mind & above all by the loving devotion of a fine generous nature. Her grandson, Richard, in after life was to confess that he owed nearly all of good that was in him to her.

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