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Kate Emilia FORFAR (nee ELLIS)  - 1872-1905 Kate Amelia FORFAR nee Ellis Ahnentafel Number 15 Context for discovery This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. Amy says Conflict seems to be part of human nature, and it can be an unpleasant thing to examine in our family history. (On the positive side, it can create records for us to use.) What ancestor was involved in a conflict, whether it was a war, a feud, or a legal matter ? Kate was my great-grandmother on my mother’s side of the family.  My mother never knew her maternal grandmother.  She died well before she was even thought of as my mother’s mother was only 2 years old when Kate died. As you will learn from this biography, conflict seemed to be very much part of her life. Childhood Kate was the eighth child born to George and Isabella Ellis (nee Sinclair).  The eighth of thirteen children, she was born on Tuesday 9th ...

This is my great-grandmother Kate Amelia Forfar (nee Ellis) 1872 - 1905 She and her husband - her second husband - Walter William Forfar have led me and my relations a bit of a merry dance over the years. Earlier this year I had a bit of a breakthrough using one of my favourite tools of late i.e. Trove . Well, it wasn't really a breakthrough - if anything, the discovery has just led to more questions. We're not quite sure when Walter and Kate got married, if at all. Let's go back a bit.  First of all, Kate married Alfred H Doe 4 April 1896 at the Congregational Church at Woollahra at the age of 24 according to the NSW BDM Index. I've just ordered the certificate.  Kerching. There is a marriage notice that you can see on Trove here . Kate and Alfred were granted a divorce in 1902, some six years later as per the notice in the Sydney Morning Herald here . What is interesting is that by that time Kate already had two children with Walter William Forfa...