Sheena Heather Lauder [Gillie] (1965-a1993)

Dates

Birth: 1965 Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Gordon Lauder 1938-1998
Mother: Baraleen Todd 1944-2019

Marriage: 22 February 1991 Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Husband: David Gillie (Moller) 1967-a1993
Divorce: 1993 Duns, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK

Death: After 1993

Children

Father unknown
Cally Hannah Lauder 1987

By David
Lee Gillie 1992

Notes

Entry in the Register of Births for Lauder Sheena Heather in 1965 in Duns (735 18).

Her sister and brother were also born in Duns in 1965 and 1967.

Her daughter was born in Coldstream in 1987.

Two entries in the Register of Marriages for Lauder Sheena Heather to David Gillie and David Moller in 1991 in Coldstream (787/ 2).

Her daughter was born in Coldstream in 1992.

Entry in the Register of Divorce for Lauder Sheena Heather and Gillie Sheena Heather, married 22 February 1991, in 1993 in Duns (6783).

Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for MS Sheena H Gillie born 1963-1965, address 3 Priory Hill TD12 4EB, Coldstream, Northumberland. Note that Priory Hill is just inside Berwickshire, Scotland.

Entry in 192.com for Sheena H Gillie in the Electoral Roll 2002-04, 2008-13 living in Coldstream, Berwickshire, TD12, other occupant Lee Gillie (daughter?).

Entry in The Berwickshire News 15 May 2002 Sheena's adult learning achievement a great inspiration

A Coldstream woman who embarked on a series of adult education courses three years ago has gone back to school for good as a classroom assistant. Sheena Gillie's remarkable achievement has earned her a string of new qualifications and a nomination for a Borders Television adult learners' award. The winner of the award will be announced tonight (Thursday) in Aviemore but for Sheena who won the Scottish Qualifications Award at the 2002 Scottish Borders Adult Education Awards in March it's enough just to be nominated. "I was totally amazed and stunned," said Sheena who completed ten courses at Coldstream before moving on to further training Northumberland College in Berwick. A single parent on low income, she decided to take advantage of some of the low cost and free courses on offer once her two daughters Cally, 15, and Lee, 10, were both attending school full time. "My children were getting older and more independent," she explained. "I wanted to do something for myself and get my mind working again." After training as a classroom assistant, she took on a work placement at Cornhill Primary School last year and was offered a permanent job there in January. She also spends an hour a week helping out at Coldstream Primary and is studying to become a special needs assistant. "It's absolutely fantastic," said Sheena. "When I first started doing the courses I didn't know what I wanted to do but everyone said I was good with children and everything I did seemed to lead me that way. It is definitely worth it, although I maybe didn't think so when I was writing all the essays!" Sheena was nominated for the award by adult education worker Catherine Hadshar, of Scottish Borders Council. Ms Hadshar said: "In the last three years, Sheena has been in Coldstream and been doing every single course on offer through continuing education. She didn't have any transport but wanted to continue learning and work in schools. As she carried on, her confidence built up. "It is testament to her versatility - she took what was on offer and went from strength to strength. She also did a training course to be a tutor for adult literacy work and helps tutor a student in Coldstream. She is an inspiration to us all." But Ms Hadshar admitted that recent cuts in the continuing education service in the Borders would impact on the range of opportunities available to people like Sheena. "The chances are that the number of courses on offer will be reduced because there won't be the tutors to take them which means that people like Sheena will not have the choices they had before," she said.

Relationship

Sheena Heather Lauder was the first cousin twice removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.

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