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« on: Friday 26 April 19 07:41 BST (UK) »
Good morning.
My grandfather Hubert Spence-Thomas married Jean Robertson Foulis (b1862) who on marriage changed her name to Ruby and knocked 10 years off her age! Jean R Foulis's sister was Mary (Marie) Margaret Foulis born 1855 in Edinburgh Scotland. It was a large family, father Robert Foulis was a teacher then Headmaster but they fell on hard times. Marie's brother was a doctor and I guess she met her husband William Alma Aylmer Lewis in Northumberland where he was working. They married in 1878, had three children Georgina Emily Mary Aylmer Lewis 1879, Sarah Muriel Jessie Aylmer Lewis in 1880 and Rose Aylmer Lewis in 1881. Marie died 1884 and her husband married again in 1886 and went on to have more children.
Not sure about the turning away from the door, marriage to a doctor was security, father (Robert Foulis) by this time had left the family and was living in New Zealand. Both Georgina and Sarah married in 1903 and 1905 and went to live in Canada.
For more information on the Foulis/Aylmer Lewis families suggest you go back over the postings I have made in Rootschat under axecalibre, would love to know more stories of Meredith family. A sister Mary Anne (Marianne) born 1864 married Havilland le Mesurier Chepmell of Ottawa Canada, later lived in Ontario, they had six daughters and a son Bruce. Also another sister Annie (Nan) Sturrock Foulis came out to Buffalo via Ellis island in 1893, wonder if she made contact with her family??
I hope all this makes sense!! The Foulis children's names were all very similar and they had nicknames, I found 15 registered, several who died in childhood. A hard life!