Eliza Jane Steel was born on April 04, 1865 in Monfieth, the oldest daughter of Edward Lennox Steel and Jessie Ann Clark. Eliza grew up in Dundee and as a young woman worked as a bleacher in a bleaching house. The 1891 census finds Eliza living in the women's bothy of Claverhouse, Mains. On December 1, 1893 Eliza married Thomas Kinsman, the son of Thomas Kinsman and Isabella Abbott.

Eliza died in Dundee on January 30, 1944.

With special thanks to Alyson Storey.

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