Black Sheep Sunday
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...