Hi again all,
Leslie did know her Aunty Chris and really liked her. She said she was lovely and yes the Confectionery shop was hers.
Leslie and Jen are 2nd cousins.
Bob; Are you related to the Kirkcaldy's because Leslie has some McIntosh's in the tree?
Leslie is up now and here is what she knows about Christina:
She was a quiet lady and went around a lot with her sister Jean (really Jane). They never married and that is probably why they spent time together. Leslie felt that Jean overshadowed Chris. She also has photos of the two of them together (several).
Chris never wrote but Jean did and was the provider of most of Leslie's original family history info on the Kirkcaldy family. Jean was the oldest of all the children and Leslie feels that is why she probably kept the information and kept in touch with us here in Australia. After Jean died in 1984 Isabell Scott (nee Kirkcaldy) took over writing. She was the last of the sisters children except for Robert Dempster still living. Isabell died the same year as Leslie's dad, Robert, 1996.
As for the shop Leslie thinks it had already been sold when she was there in 1976. Chris had already retired by that time. Leslie is not sure if Chris had the shop before WW2. She thinks Chris and Jean worked together in another shop selling clothes.
The confectionery shop is across from Jubilee Buildings which is where the Kirkcaldy's lived. Jean was still living there until she died in 1984.
Chris lived above the confectionery shop but Leslie is not sure if it was directly above. Her reason for this is that from Chris's flat she could not see Jubilee buildings and to get to the flat they had to go along from the shop then up a stairway.
My view from looking at the photos of Jean and Chris is that Leslie looked a lot like them or that there was a definite family resemblance.
Here are 2 photos of Chris. In the one with her sister Jean and niece Margaret taken about 1976 and the other of herself taken about 1980 about 3 years before she died.
Cheers,
Alan & Leslie
