Mairi chisholm biography
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History - Military Medal Recipients - Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm
Today’s post is a joint one for the two women known as ‘The Madonnas of Pervyse’.
Elizabeth Blackall Shapter, who later gained the nickname, ‘Elsie’, was born on the 29th of June in Exeter, Devon to Dr Thomas Lewis and Charlotte Shapter, the youngest of their 5 children.
When Elsie was 4 years old, her mother died, and she lost her father to tuberculosis 2 years later.
She was eventually adopted by Lewis Edward Upcott, a teacher at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and his wife, Emily.
They sent Elsie to be educated first at St. Nicholas’ in Folkestone, Kent and then at the exclusive Château Lutry in Switzerland.
Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm was born on the 26th of February in Buckinghamshire to Captain Roderick Gooden-Chisholm, who was Chief of Clan Chisholm, a Highland Scottish clan, and Margaret Fraser.
The family, independently wealthy, owned a plantation in Trinidad.
The teenage Mairi was c