Hope this helps.
Just spoke to my mother to verify.
We have a great grandfather called William Blair. - Drumlease. Married to Eliza Beatrice - we think her surname was Ivy (Plymouth area?) with a family home in Wednesbury(Midlands). My grandmother said there was a Scottish connection - his mother? We are looking through family photos for image - given his rank and 21 years service, we think the army probably has one. There were siblings - one called James. According to his army book he was 19 when he enlisted in Dublin - 21/2/1881 ( born 1862?). Records state he was from the Burrough of Drumlease (Leitrim), He served in the 2nd. Bat. South Staffordshire Reg. He entered as a private, was educated by the army and retired a Colour Sgt. 21/2/1902. The family settled in Wednesbury. There were 4 children that we know of - at least two sons -William and James. Two daughters, Beatrice and Bertha Mary - connections in Devon, London, Midlands. If this is the correct family, others have or are in the process of completing family trees.
