Thank you Nickey, yes that would have been Mary Hannah, unfortunately there does not seem to be a record as yet of her death, thereis a bit of mystery in my family (no wonder we were never told anything!!)
Mary Hannah was last noted on the 1881 census for Perth, with her husband George Nelson Grant, my g.mother Mabel Grant, and I have since discovered that another son of theirs was at that time in Fechney Inductrial School in Perth (still trying to find out if tjere are any records of the pupils there) the other son Edward Plews Grant, from the first marriage of George Nelson to Mary Plews Street, in 1863 (Ockbrook Derby) she died in 1866 & George married Mary Hannah Copeland in 1868 (St Alkmund)
Edward was living in lodgings in Edinburgh, Effie their eldest dau was with her g.mother Euphemie Martin (formerly Grant) in Edinburgh, Mabel my g.mother was withher parents, why all the children were split up I do not know.
My g.mother was sent to Canada (by her eldest sister) as an orphan in 1889, I have by courtesy of Barnardos, receoved a record of her stay in the Marchmont Home inOntario up to when she left Canada in 1900.
She informed the Home that her father was alive & living in Birmingham, her g.mother dead (but it was not Euphemia, she was still living at the time, so imagine she must have been meaning the g.mother in Derby, Benedicta?)
I next traced George Nelson on the 1891/1901 census living in London, but with a wife named Annie! have not yet traced a marriage, or the death of Mary Hannah, he died in Leicester in 1919, there was an inquest because he died suddenly, and his wife Annie, was still with him.
I have a lot of puzzles yet to solve, it seems that an answer leads to more questions!!!
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