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Grace Marks Grace Marks (c. July 1828 – after c. 1873) was an Irish-Canadian maid who was involved in the 1843 murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Her conviction for the murder of Kinnear ...

' employer who died in 1843 Thomas Kinnear

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(1796–1830) was a Scottish banker and Director of T. Kinnear & Sons. He was also a Director of the

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Life

He was born on 11 January 1796. His father was Charles Kinnear, an agriculturalist in

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. His grandfather Thomas Kinnear was also a banker and founded T. Kinnear and Sons in 1748. Kinnear’s was one of the few Scottish banks to survive the

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. His company had premises at 9 Royal Exchange in

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1820, his proposer being Thomas Allan. He died on 20 October 1830. He is buried at a south facing wall of the lower terrace of St John's churchyard on

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. After his death his widow is listed as living at 44 Melville Street in Edinburgh’s West End. The National Archives in Kew hold a copy of his will, dated 21 February 1831. After his death his firm amalgamated with Donald Smith and Son to form Kinnear, Smith and Company (1831). Smith had been

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1807-08. Due to mismanagement of funds this company failed disastrously in 1833/4, leaving debts of £320,000.

Family

His daughter Jean Kinnear (1772-1838) married Rev John Campbell minister of Tolbooth parish,

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who was

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in 1818.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; by Hew Scott His nephew was the lawyer

James Kinnear James Kinnear WS FRSE (1810-1849) was a Scottish lawyer. His legal title was Master Extraordinary in Chancery and Commissioner of English Affairs. Life He was born on 2 December 1810 and lived at 31 Queen Street in the New Town. He was appren ...

References

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