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Margaret FORSYTH
1863C -

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• Birth	1863C	Keith, Banff. Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I534	Jean Mailer Forsyth
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2012

  
  

  Father	James Alexander FORSYTH,   b. 1820C,   d. 20JAN1896, 68 Spittal, Aberdeen. Scotland
  Mother	Ann SHAND,   b. 1831C,   d. 10NOV1901, 5 Lorne Building, Bridge of Dee, Aberdeen, Scotland (East peterculter)
  Married	23AUG1851	Keith, Banff. Scotland
  Photos		For1851jamShand.jpg
  Family ID	F180	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Rei1887wmmForsyth.jpg
  		Maggie Reid Forsyth 1881 Census before marriage.jpg
  		Margaret Reid nee Forsyth 1891 Census.jpg
  		Margaret Reid nee Forsyth 1901 Census with son Henry G.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret was born about 1863 in Keith, Banffshire to James and Ann Forsyth. In 1887 in Glasgow, she married William Reid, a sign-writer. They lived in Glasgow, where her sons William b 1887/8 and Henry G b 1891 were born. In early 1891, she returned to Keith with her children to visit or live with her father, and they were there on census night in March 1891. When Maggie's father died in Aberdeen in 1896, his address was 68 Spital (the name of a street in Central Aberdeen, still there today), and she was described as "Daughter and Inmate (Present)". The significance of "inmate" is not clear. Had they come upon hard times and was 68 Spital perhaps an annex to the poorhouse? (There was one nearby.) The 1901 census shows Maggie as married (not widowed) and living in a single room in Edinburgh with son Henry. She was by then a worker (in a rubber factory), and this all suggests she was still struggling financially, and probably living apart from her husband. What had happened to him, and where was her other son?