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- Mary took secretarial, domestic science and art courses at the Ladies College, Edinburgh.
Mary gathered together family information put together a Family Tree.
The «b»1901 Scotland Census«/b» shows a 17-year old Mary Tasker Lundie living at 8 Spottiswoode St, in the district of Newington, Edinburgh Robertson Memorial parish with her 20-yr old brother, Frank William, and to my great surprise her 12-yr old brother, Marshall and 7-yr old brother Arnold. She is registered as a scholar. As there is no domestic help she must have had heavy responsibilities with her studies and looking after her siblings. Frank's parents were in Darwen, Lancashire, England, staying with his mother's sister and her husband, James and Mary Johnston "Aunt Polly", on the night the census was taken. [This record was difficult to find as the names were recorded as "John and Rebecca Lunder".]
They lived in Ngqeleni which is where John and Rebecca retired, when they left Malan Mission.
Source: Mary Lundie. Email of 29 Mar 2007
Mary compiled family information used in «u»Notes on the Lundie & Auld Families«/u»
She went to Edinburgh with Frank in 1900, attended Edinburgh Ladies College, and took domestic science, secretarial and art courses. One her return to the Transkei kept house for Frank until she married a young lawyer, Lance Crowther, who came from England and trained for law with an East London firm and worked in Aliwal North and Butterworth. They had three children…Norah, Ray (Tinker) and Philip.
Mary Crowther was the second mother to Frank's young children and being a great gardener and housewife was able to help the girls with their sewing and domestic training.
She was a leader in the village, ran the Brownie Pack and during World War 2 was head of the SAWAS in the district organising fund-raising and activities for the welfare of the troops.
Mary Crowther died in the Kemani Hospital in Queenstown, Cape, at the age of 81 of heart disease. Source: Form of Information of a death. copy in Lundie file.
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1883 - 1964 (81 years)
