Cpt John MACLENNAN x Evangeline SKINNER family, INVERNESS.
My gt grandad's half sister "Aunt Annie" Mary Anne Mackenzie was married to a widower Captain JOHN MACLENNAN and in INVERNESS she raised not only my orphan grandmother Mary C Mackenzie but her husband's 3 children also, by his first wife EVANGELINE RUTH SKINNER b.1856c in Sheffield.
His children were:
GRACE AGNES MACLENNAN born in Newcastle about 1879.
She was named Grace for her father's mother Grace FOX from Banff.
JOHN JOSEPH MACLENNAN who was also in the Royal Horse Artillery like his dad.He is listed as a year old in Newcastle Barracks census 1881born in Canterbury ,Kent about 1880.
EVANGELINE MACLENNAN was the youngest, born somewhere in England around 1883.
They all lived at 1 Albyn Place , Island Bank Road, INVERNESS in a house with 12 windows.
Where did they all go ?
Cpt John MacLennan had been injured and already retired when he died in 1901 aged just 52 and Aunt Annie followed in 1927 having moved to 15 Kingsmills Road in the Crown area of Inverness.