larkspur, my great gran on my nana's side of the family, janet she was born on the 17th july1885. to parents alexander smith and janet O'May.I think that I am right in saying that her mother was margaret milloy or Malloy, whom I thought originally was born in scotland but since found a reference in ireland in the name of ms kilpatrick marrying a henry Malloy, then she arrives in scotland campbeltown and marries william O'May.I am going to check this because I have her mother down as janet campbell her brother ending up as the duke of argyll through flukes of antecedents not having any male heirs and passing the titles on to cousins etc. brother being hugh
janetO'May-smith was not a very nice person, her parents were base people not very high up on the social scale, she ran away from home to join the stage she was self obsessed, she was found and dragged back home, she lived in her head, she fantasised about her background, looking for a better life which I believe is why she took up with george steele as his family were into building, and were a lot better off they had a big house in a posh area of edinburgh and a posh car which was being manufactured at that time david mason lived nearby and he was just coming into his own politically, she preferred to think of that family as her own instead of a father who had started life as a quarryman.she was a snob and a fantasist.
because of her my nan ended up in care, and because she did not seem to have any parents was down on a list of children due to be moved to australia, newzealand and/or canada, but she ran away and found her grandparents who then contacted her mother and arranged for to take her on a train to meet her mother. who by this time had taken up with sydney, whom she married bigamousley in 1928.