Who was Lizzie Bryce?
Lizzie Bryce was born to William Baxter and his wife Margaret Wilson in the parish of Mid Calder in January 1776. She grew up like any other poor child of her time: a few years of schooling at the parish school in Mid Calder, then out to work on a local farm. At the age of 23, Lizzie Baxter married Alexander Bryce, a ploughman who like Lizzie was born and bred in Mid Calder. In the records of the time, the name is always spelled Bryce, not Brice. Their first son, Alexander