Archibald Crawford Norris and Elizabeth Foster were my maternal grandparents. They were married on the 25th December 1895 in Kilburn London. Archibald served in the army and fought in the Boer war. He died on 21 December 1915 of stomach cancer. Archibald did work as a tailor during his time in the army. I have a photograph of him sitting at his sewing machine. I don't think he was ever told who his father was. John Crawford brother of Archibald senior used to visit him when he was young and living on the Isle of Arran, so I think he assumed that John was his father. He was sent to reform school for stealing a loaf of bread because he was hungry, so it would appear his early life was spent in poverty.
