Elizabeth Murrison
Miss Elizabeth "Lizzie" Burroughs Murrison (1884-1954)
1884 January 05th. Born at Trumland House, Rousay, Orkneys, the daughter of Robert Mitchell Murrison, a gamekeeper, and his wife Margaret McDonald
1885 The family moved to Farmley, County Kilkenny
1901 Studying at Miss Jane J. Niven's private school in Gilmore Place in Edinburgh which prepared girls for musical examinations or university entrance.
1901 Boarding at 21 Upper Gilmore Place, Edinburgh: Eliza B. Murison (age 17 born Orkneys), Scholar. In the house of Robert J. Muir and his family.[1]
1903 First woman to drive from Land's End to John o' Groats. Car was a six-seater Arrol-Johnston 12 h.p. dogcart. Left on 22nd September and it took five days and believed to have carried four passengers (one woman and three men).
1909 June 30th. Married at Kilkenny to Captain Walter Brennan, a sea captain.[2],. He died the same year age 28. Lizzie in not named as a mourner at the funeral on the 17th November although her father and brother are.[3]
1920 October 05th. Married at Kilkenny to Harold Carter Crumplen, a clerk. He died in 1963.
1939 Housekeeper at Worsted Lodge, Cambridgeshire.[4] She was still there in 1951.
1954 February 02nd. Died and buried at Burnchurch, County Kenny.