Her Father I couldnt find due to the fact of such a common name & having no idea of where.On his marriage he is described as a Papermaker & through the Births as Journeyman Papermaker.His Father was a Farmer so thought he might have gone back to that.
After speaking to my newly found 2nd cousin he told me that she was buried under our GggreatGrandfather as she had died young.Now i knew she still around in 1891 from the Census & I had searched SP for her death but not there.
So I knew she had died between 1891 & 1909,that she was single looked again & found her Death one I had looked at before but dismissed as her Fathers occupation was given as Private Gordon Highlanders!!! Not Former but serving.Now he was born circa 1830 which would make him around 68. Is this too old to still be a soldier? Is he the reason my Grandpa ran off to the Boer War in 1902?
I can understand a man who loses wife/child in tragic circumstances leaving his surviving child with family but as they lived Penicuik where there was a Papermill & he was a papermaker what the heck made him join up? Would they take a man around 43 as he would have been to sign up for the first time & would he still have been serving when so old? Do the Gordons have any connection with Scone where he came from?
Hope this all makes sense & that some kind person can answer at least some of my questions.Thanks in anticipation
