I wish I'd come across this post months ago, as I could have told you straight away that my granny (Margaret Mein Carnegie nee Moffat) left Dumfries after she separated from my grandfather, Reginald Tupper Carnegie, in 1955, and moved to Inverkeilor to run The Chance Inn. I currently live just 7 miles from Inverkeilor and The Chance Inn has sadly been closed for several years now after the smoking ban meant the there were very few customers still going there. I have that photograph myself and it is definitely of my granny and her parents, William and Christina Moffat, so it would have been taken between 1955 an 1961 but I don't know exactly what year. Granny left Inverkeilor in 1961 and moved to Balham in south west London to be the landlady of bedsits in the large house that she bought and lived in. She died of throat cancer in London on 7th December 1969. My grandfather was an alcoholic and that's what led to the breakdown of their marriage in Dumfries. When my granny died he inherited her house in London (they never divorced as he refused to agree to a divorce) and he and lived there for a while with his second wife, Christine, before selling the house to his eldest son Alexander, ie my father. My grandfather ended up living in a caravan in the grounds of Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries and he died of cirhossis of the liver on 7th December 1972.
