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After the death of James, his wife and daughter lived in Warkworth. However, family life did not settle down. Elizabeth died on 4 January 1869 of phthisis, a common killer, now known as pulmonary tuberculosis. She was aged 32 and had been suffering from this wasting disease for 15 months.

Elizabeth had made her will, a few months before, no doubt anticipating her death and it was witnessed by the vicar and her doctor. Her daughter Anna, only 7 years old, was to be under the care of Elizabeth's widowed mother, Margaret Henderson ( nee Muers) and her bachelor brother, Henry Henderson. Unfortunately they died in 1874 and 1875. Anna passed to the care of her maternal aunt, Anna Margery, who was married to one of the Millers, a well known farming family of Warkworth. The Burn family home in Warkworth was to be retained for the future use of Anna. Newton Villa was rented to tenants.

The will of Elizabeth also remembered a faithful woman, Mrs Jane Ferrier, widow, of Scotland, the former carer of James Burn. She was to be given an annual annuity for life of £10.

The will of Elizabeth also stipulated that Anna's inheritance was to be retained in trust so that any future husband would have no entitlement to it. Bitter experience perhaps.

Did Anna live happily ever after........sadly no. But that's a different story.