Tag: Charles Edward Wilcox (1853-1920)
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Gone too soon
Margaret Morrison had seven illegitimate children to three (or possibly only two) different fathers. Her story begins in Aberdeen in northern Scotland in 1864 1. Her mother, Annie Hatt, died of Tuberculosis in 1874, at the age of 37 2. At this time her seven children were aged between two and fifteen years of age…
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Finding a difficult ancestor
I have been slowly tracking down a particularly difficult ancestor called Margaret MORRISON. Firstly her name is unbelievably common in Scotland at the time she lived. Secondly, she never married and so I had no documents that listed her parents. She was the mother of my grandfather Edward WILCOX 1 who was illegitimate. I was…