Looking through census doesn’t tell much about life lived.
1885
Eight months later, GNS signed another family death certificate 500 miles south in Liverpool. In this register, a blunt pen nib widened the handwritten letters, loops straying outside the box lines. The brief entries were dated two days after the event, when George N Stewart, the brother in attendance from Lybster, reported the details. His…
1884
Entry 59 recorded James Innes Stewart, married to Catherine Sutherland, died on August Twenty Sixth, 6 h. 15 m. A.M., 1884, in the Village of Lybster, age 61 years. Parents both deceased. Then Cause of Death, Duration of disease, and Medical Attendant, by whom certified, Signature & Qualification of Informant, and Residence, If out of…
1906
On 12th of September, 1906, George Neil Stewart married Katherine Louise Powell at Saint Saviour’s Church, Pimlico, London. Who was she ? KLP was born into circumstances more straightened than GNS’s. We find it hard to understand poverty, until experienced firsthand, particularly at a level where it locked people into their neighborhood, attitudes and possibilities.…
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