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Amy Mary Ricardo

Title: 
Countess of March and Kinrara
Dates: 
10 October 1848 - 23 August 1879

Amy Mary Ricardo was the eldest daughter of Percy Ricardo and Matilda Hensley.

She married Charles Henry, Earl of March (later the 7th Duke of Richmond and Gordon) on 10 November 1868. The couple had three sons and two daughters.

The Countess often played the organ in Gordon Chapel during services, including the re-dedication ceremony in 1874.

She died on 23 August 1879. She is buried in Chichester Cathedral. .

Sources
Gordon Chapel website

Helen Acquroff

Other names: 
sometimes recorded as Ellen or Hellen, perfoming name Sister Cathedral
Dates: 
12th October 1831 - 18th September, 1887

Helen was a Music Teacher, born in Edinburgh on 12th October, second eldest of 10 children: Elizabeth (born 1830), Mary Ann (1833), Thomson Paul (1834), Alexander Fletcher (1836), Ann Paul (1838), John (1839), Susan Carter (1842), Sophia Sarah ((1843), Robert Wingfield (1846). Their parents were John Acquroff, a Hairdresser of Russian ancestry (a naturalised British subject), and Sophia Campbell Fletcher from Ardelach, Nairn.

At the 1841 Census the family were living at 8 Muse Lane.

Sources
Helen Acquroff birth, death; son James birth; brothers and sisters birth; 1841. 51, 71, 91 census records
Birth and Death and Census Records
History and Archaeology
Friends of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links Website
Acquroff Name
Ancestry website blog for the name Acquroff

Linda McCartney

Title: 
Lady
Other names: 
Her maiden name was Eastman.
Dates: 
24 Sept 1941 -17 April 1998
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