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« on: Friday 09 December 22 20:13 GMT (UK) »
James junior was a distant relative of mine, in fact my G, Grandmother's son by her second marriage, he claimed to have served in various Scottish Regiments, seemingly total fiction as loyalty to your regiment was everything. I would like to discover why he flitted between the names of Brownlie and Docherty as his Mother's maiden name seems to have been Hamilton, so no obvious connection there. I have found out that his daughter, Annie, emigrated to Australia whilst his other two children remained in Scotland. James died in a lunatic asylum in Stirling in 1953, so his life story remains a mystery to me. Did something happen to him in his early life to influence his choices.
I flit between sorrow and anger at his life, so I feel I need to understand the man, who married my Grandmother better..