Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Miss Annie Louisa Keith Stewart 

Gender: Female 

Date and Place of Birth: 1897 Londonderry 

Date and Place of Death: N/K 

Nationality: Irish 

Childhood: N/K

Parents: John Wray and Martha (nee Love) Stewart 

Parent’s occupations: Farmer (father) 

Schools / universities attended and years of attendance:  

Coleraine High School 

Queens University, Belfast, graduated B.Sc 1917 

Occupation: N/K 

Place of residence at Gretna: N/K 

Job title at Gretna: Worked at Dornock 

Marital status: Single 

Children: N/K 

Travels: UK 

Awards/recognitions: B.Sc.  

Trivia / any other information:  

Annie appears at the family home in Boghill, Ballylagan in 1901. In 1911 she is living with her aunt, also Annie Keith Stewart, at 7, Glenmanus, Ballylagan. She is a scholar, probably at Coleraine High School. Annie goes on to be a medical student at Queens University in Belfast and graduates with a B.Sc. In 1917. 

At some point Annie comes to work at HM Factory Gretna. We don’t know what her role was, but she is remembered on the Dornock Souvenir. Her forwarding address is given as Boghill, Coleraine, Co. Derry, Ireland. 

In 1922 she is reported winning a local badminton competition with her sister Helen Margaret Stewart for Boghill  (Ballymoney Free Press and Northern Advertiser 16/02/1922). 

When her aunt Annie Keith Stewart died on 5th July 1932 in Antrim, her executors were Annie Louisa Keith Stewart and her sister Helen Margaret. 

Annie was living at Dhu Varren, Portrush in the 1940s. 

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