M, #172, b. circa June 1859, d. 5 March 1922
| Birth* | circa June 1859 | Tynemouth, Northumberland, England |
| (Son) Census1861 | 7 April 1861 | 57 North Street, North Shields, Northumberland, England, Also a Servant Ann Smith, Head Of Household=Thomas Clouston |
| (Son) Census1871 | 2 April 1871 | 57 North Street, North Shields, Northumberland, England, Head Of Household=Thomas Clouston  |
| Marriage* | 11 June 1889 | Principal=Annie Atkinson |
| Census1891* | 5 April 1891 | 33 Gardner Street, Chirton, Northumberland, England, Grocer, Wife=Annie Atkinson, Son=Kennedy Clouston |
| (Witness) History | 1 January 1893 | John Main left for Canada in 1892. Isabella and her four children, Barbara, Robert - who was an invalid due to a bad fall down their back stone steps at about four years old- , Russell and Thomas followed in May 1893. Uncle Kennedy Clouston accompanied them on the train from Newcastle to Liverpool where he put them on board the Cunard Liner bound for Quebec, City. Ten days later they docked and boarded a train that traveled via Montreal, Toronto, Fort William, Winnipeg, Regina, Medicine Hat to Calgary. They then transferred to another train heading to McLeod - the end of their rail journey. Thomas and Russell , being young, adventurous lads enjoyed the trip but Isabella, with Barbara's assistance, spent this difficult journey caring for young Robert who could not walk and the jerky motion of the train jarred his hip causing him great pain. He had to be carried to the washroom several times a day, food had to be purchased at points suggested by the trainmen and tea had to be made and meals served etc. Isabella's telegram to John did not reach him in time to meet the train in McLeod and of course Isabella was very disappointed and annoyed with this. The family slept in a one room shack, on a tarp on the floor with some blankets to keep them warm. The next morning at 10am father Main arrived driving a lumber wagon with a "fine" pair of Clydesdale horses. Isabella, Barbara, and Robert traveled by stage coach to Pincher Creek that afternoon while John, Russell, and Thomas rode the long, 33 mile, journey to Pincher Creek, with their luggage in the lumber wagon. They arrived in Pincher Creek just after midnight May 29th, 1893. The family spent the first couple of days in the village and on the third day drove the lumber wagon out to the Hodgkins ranch where they spent the night. The next morning the family moved in to the newly erected "slab" stable. Isabella must have been shocked with her circumstances. The stable was about 25'x40' with no floors or windows. There was no house yet on their 160 acres of Prairie land. They slept on a pile of hay on the bare floor, cooked on a wood stove and made a table to eat off of from old, rough board. There was a well about 125" from the barn along with a log henhouse and a one seater outside privy. These structures plus a sizeable rail corral entered by a fairly respectable gate were all the improvements that had been made. John Main had named their ranch, Flatworth after Isabella's mother's family estate in England. By the time Isabella and the children arrive in Alberta John Main had spent the sizable amount of money he had brought with him. Fortunately for the family Isabella was a wise business woman with a lot of Scottish common sense and she had refrained from giving John Main the entire family savings before he left so she arrived in Canada with funds and her furniture and began the task making a good life for her family. Apparently John Main was very loath to submit to this change of management and so the family was divided in to two camps for the next two years - Father versus the rest of the family. The family house was built and the family moved in to it in early October. Young Robert died a year after reaching Canada. Kennedy , the youngest member of the family, was born in Pincher Creek in 1894. By 1895 the entire family savings were gone and John Main left Canada for San Francisco intending to return to his profession of marine engineer and it was many years before the family saw him again. Isabella Clouston was left to raise her family in the "promised land".
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| Census1901* | 31 March 1901 | 13 York Terrace, North Shields, Northumberland, England, Wife=Annie Atkinson, Son=Kennedy Clouston, Son=Thomas Clouston, Son=Fred Clouston |
| Census1911* | 2 April 1911 | 23 Preston Avenue, North Shields, Northumberland, England, Wife=Annie Atkinson, Son=Thomas Clouston |
| Death* | 5 March 1922 | Tynemouth, Northumberland, England |
