My Descendants as shown on the Legget Family Tree 1784 – 2014.
2014
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My Descendants as shown on the Legget Family Tree 1784 – 2014.
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My grandmother Margaret, was the child of Robert Legget 1850….and the Family seamstress…..called Sophia
The Legget Family paid for her education and placed her with 2 single ladies in accommodation near the Tannery. She lived her last years in Comrie having been twice married and having given birth to 2 daughters ( one my mother, Sophia ) then 2 sons. I am now 80 and Granny Margaret died when I was 3. She was 60 years old , quite tiny with dark eyes but a formidable woman !
Her mother Sophia was known as The Bonnie Golden Lassie of the Dean. After having her daughter, she left for Canada and the child stayed in Edinburgh .
So I have been told……..
Hello Pamela,
Thank you for your memories of Sophia. Yes Sophia was the child of Robert Legget and he paid for her private education,
I can provide with a Photograph of the House where she was brought up as a child, do you have any photographs of your Grandmother Margaret ?
My e-mail address is irelandhundred@gmail.com
Kind regards,
Patrick McCole