Frances Steele with her mother, Frances Dinning, at Crumhaugh Farm, Stonehouse, on 9th July 1917
| Frances Newall Steele |
| 8th June 1890 - 15th March 1965 |
Frances Steele with her mother, Frances Dinning, at Crumhaugh Farm, Stonehouse, on 9th July 1917
In 1911, she was living in the family home at 165, Great George Street, Glasgow. She was entered as 20, single,
school teacher in Govan, born India.
Frances N. Steele was a witness on her brother John Aulay Steele’s marriage certificate
in 1916 and acted as the informant on their father John Steele’s death
certificate in 1920. It may be taken that the ‘N’ stands for Newall, her maternal grandmother’s maiden name.
However, when she appeared before Daniel Munro Alexander, Solicitor, Glasgow, Notary Public, on 26th
April 1920, as Executrix Dative qua next of kin to her deceased father, she was identified as Miss Frances
Dinning Steel, residing at 3, Caird Drive, Partick, Glasgow.
Frances N. Steele (familiarly Fanny), a pupil at Bellahouston Higher Grade Academy, Govan, took her
School Leaving
Certificate examination in 1908. This source confirms her date of birth as 8th June 1890.
I am reliably informed that Frances Steele married James Muir in India on 19th September 1927; that date and the couple’s initials are inscribed on her wedding ring. According to family tradition, James died after someone bit him on the hand. When exactly this is supposed to have happened is unknown. Frances was back in Scotland and appears in the Valuation Roll as a tenant at 109, Hyndland Road, Glasgow, by 1935. By 1940, she was at 4, Huntly Gardens.
Frances Muir, the widow of James Muir, a tea planter, died on 15th March 1965 at 6h 40m am, in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Her usual residence was 6, Caledon Street, Glasgow. She was 74 years years of age. The causes of death were certified as cerebral thrombosis, arterio sclerosis and multiple injuries resulting from a road traffic accident. The informant was A. W. Steele, her brother, of 99, Oban Drive, Glasgow.
Family sources disclose that the accident took place in Highburgh Road; the driver was a young man whose 21st birthday it was that day. There was a post mortem examination but it was apparently never established whether the stroke was the cause or the result of the accident. She may just have walked out on to the road without seeing the car; we shall never know.
Prior to Frances’s death, her brother Archie’s wife, Isabella, and daughter, Isobel, had been in the habit of visiting her one evening a week.
