Jessie Strathdee, née Cranmer (1871–1956)
Jessie Graham Cranmer [1922-UC1-070] was born on 9 October 1871, in New Kilpatrick, near Glasgow. Her parents were John Cranmer, and her mother was Margaret Alexander Graham. Nothing is currently known about her early life, but in 1899, she married Alexander Dunlop Strathdee, in Glasgow. They seem to have lived in the suburb of Milngavie.
In 1922, aged 51 years, she matriculated at United College, St Andrews and studied medicine. She was recorded as ‘Mrs’ on the matriculation register. Not much information is available on what she did after graduating, though she and her husband (and possibly a son) appear to have been living in Glasgow in 1940. She died on 16 November 1956, when she was described as a widow, with an address in Milngavie.
This summary was written in May 2026 by Libby Mullen, who was then a second-year MA student of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.
Sources: USALM; genealogical records via Ancestry.