My great-grandmother, Catherine McGillivray, was born on 20 October 1854 in Daviot and Dunlichity, Inverness-Shire.
She had two illegitimate children (that I have found so far !!!), my grandfather, James Fraser McGillivray, born 1875, in Daviot and Dunlichity, and Maggie Ann Kelly McGillivray, born 1884, in 28 Fraser's Buildings, Pilmuir, Forres.
Catherine went on to marry a George Ironside, on 14 March 1890 at 328 High Street, Forres.
On the 1891 census, Catherine is living at 33 Urquhart Street, Forres, with Maggie Ann, but no mention of George Ironside.
Where did he disappear to?
Strangely, Catherine seems to have hooked up with a bloke called Charles Fraser, who died on 20 August 1900. She seems to have taken his name when she bought him a lair in Sandymount Cemetery, Glasgow. When she made that purchase, she gave her address as 20 Brown Street, Glasgow, which was just along the street from where my grandfather was living (James Fraser McGillivray).
After then my great-grandmother calls herself Catherine Fraser, and continues to live in Glasgow until her death in 1918.
But where did George Ironside disappear to?
