In the footsteps of Great Great Great grandmother

A day of travelling round the Scottish Borders with my sister-in-law from Canada. We share a passion for family history and G has spent many hours examining the lives and records of the Irish Murphys and the Scottish Blacks. Although it was her first visit to the Border region, she was already familiar with some from Google Earth.
Isabella Finlay 1804 - 1882 was born in Smailholm, but not I suspect up the impressive tower. It was a clear sunny day so the views from the tower were far reaching. She married in Yeltholm, in 1823 which we didn't manage to visit. By the 1841 census, Isabella was living in Maxton as a widow with four children. This church with its years of history will have been known to her.
Ten years later aged 57 she was a farm labourer in Over Roxburgh, maybe living in one of these farm cottages. By 1871 the census records she was an annuitant and living in Kilnknowe Cottges. The photo includes a rather dilapidated farmhouse, but enlivened by the pennyfathing on the side of the building.
Although we never managed to find Peasehill in Melrose, where she died in December 1892, Melrose's culinary standards lived up to expectations with a very good lunch in the Green Tree.