1760: Marjorie Lawrie

Marjorie Lawrie was also born in Scotland. She bore three children: two daughters and a son.After her husband’s death she moves to Kristiansand in 1766.

Here she lived with her eldest daughter who was married to the Town Scribe Thaulow, and here too her youngest daughter married the advocate Andreas Mølbach.

“Keep your feet warm and your head cold”

seemed to have been her life’s motto. But she also managed to keep the coals glowing at the Naze and on Markøy for 22 years.

Lighthouse keeper Marjorie Lawrie was great-grandmother to the poet Henrik Wergeland. In his poem,

"A shanty for the brig Preciosa, bound for Brazil" we find these lines: "We whistle for the wind to blow, We long for Lindesnes and home"