Mary Buchanan

Standard Name: Buchanan, Mary
Used Form: Mary Jay

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Harriett Jay
HJ may have had several siblings: she must have had a brother, father of the nephew, William Paul Jay , who features in her will.
Regan, Patrick. “Harriett Jay’s Will”. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901).
Though little is known about the early life of her...
Family and Intimate relationships Robert Williams Buchanan
In 1861 RWB married Mary Jay .
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriett Jay
For reasons unknown, HJ (then aged about seven or eight) was adopted by her elder sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Robert Buchanan (who, it seems, were unable to have children of their own).
Jay, Harriett. Robert Buchanan. AMS, 1970.
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Residence Harriett Jay
Robert Buchanan developed an unnamed illness, and following the death of his father the family (now composed of Buchanan, his mother Margaret , his wife Mary , and the child HJ ) moved north to...
Residence Harriett Jay
In order to reduce expenses yet again Robert and Mary Buchanan , with HJ (who was now in her teens), moved to remote Rossport in County Mayo, Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Robert Williams Buchanan

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