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Paton or Hill, Amelia McDermaid Robertson

1821 – 1904

Dunfermline OPR records her given name at birth as Emmilia McDermaid Paton, she was recorded on her death certificate as Amelia Robertson Hill nee Paton and was known as Amelia Paton. She was born in January 1821 as the OPR proves but has consistently and incorrectly been recorded as having been born in 1820. Her brother Sir Joseph Noel Paton RSA was born in the December of the same year (1821). A gifted sculptor she was established in her own name by the time she married David Octavius Hill RSA, a widower since 1841, in 1862. She was responsible for the portrait bust of her husband, a bronze copy of which was placed on his headstone in the Dean Cemetery in 1886, where she too is interred.



An image from the RSA collection.