| Janet McAslan Steele |
| 3rd October 1896 - 30th October 1957 |
Janet McAslan Steele was born on 3rd October 1896 at ‘Mazagown’ (usually rendered ‘Mazagon’), an island community in Bombay, in India. She was baptised on 18th November by the Rev. Thomas Currie, Minister of the ‘Free Scotch Church, Bombay’. A family tradition relates that Janet spent the first nine years of her life in India.
At the time of the 1911 census, Janet was a fourteen year old schoolgirl living with her parents, sister Frances and brother Archie, in a tenement at 165, Great George Street, Glasgow.
Janet Stuart Brown MS Steele
Janet McAslan Steele was a clerk (spinster), aged 23, at the time of her marriage to George Stuart Brown on 14th November 1919. She was resident at 3, Caird Drive, Partick, Glasgow.
Janet on Horseback |
Miss (sic) Janet McAslan Stuart Brown, address entered as 3, Caird Drive, Partick, compeared before Daniel
Munro Alexander, Solicitor, Glasgow, Notary Public, on 26th April 1920, for the purpose of confirming
the identity of her sister, Frances Steele, who was acting as Executrix
Dative qua next of kin of their recently deceased father, John Steele.
Janet McAslan Steele died on 30th October 1957 at 1h 30m am, at Dunrowan, Langbank. (This entry may have been made in error, as Janet’s daughter, Elizabeth Frances Stuart Brown, recalled that the actual date of her mother’s death was the 31st). Her age was entered as 61. The cause of death was certified as carcinoma of the lungs, a condition from which she had been suffering for six months. The informant was Norman D. McIntyre, the deceased’s son-in-law. The death was registered at Bishopton on 1st November 1957. |
Janet walking on Vesuvius, Italy, in 1925
| Brothers and Sisters |
Janet was the third of four known children. She had an elder brother, John; an elder sister, Frances, and a younger brother, Archibald. It appears that two other children of the family died young, as the 1911 census indicates that six children had been born alive, of whom four were still living.