Douglas was born in Orange, New Jersey USA, 6 February 1903. The State of New Jersey has yet to uncover a birth certificate, but he is listed in a New Jersey index of births as born in 1903.

Ian was born in Hendon, the home of our mother’s family, on July 26, 1937, shortly after our parents arrived back from Australia, where they had lived for two years.

Emma’s Forebears Her parents: Deodatus Carr Jr. 1813-1890 and Ann Robinson 1825-1913 Ann Robinson was baptized on 14 February 1825 in Birmingham, where she married Deodatus Carr on 8 December 1847.

This is the grandmother we never knew. When I started on this genealogy I realized I did not even know her name.

Robert was the son of Robert MacNie (1819-1899) and Elizabeth Hamilton McNie (1828-1917). He was the sixth of eight children, two of whom died in infancy, and the second of two sons. Robert sr. was an umbrella maker in Falkirk.