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About 25 years ago my daughter and her friend were cycling round the Isle of Cumbrae .
We have an unusual surname shared with only one other family in Scotland and neither family live on Cumbrae . At lunch time the two girls decided to eat their sandwiches in the churchyard of the CATHEDRAL of the ISLES . My daughter sat on a tombstone and looked around . On the next grave was the name of a woman bearing our surname . There are very few graves in that churchyard but the lady had been the daughter of one of the provosts of the cathedral .
We discovered who she had married but cannot imagine how she could have met her husband since
my husbands forebears had been living in the south of England at that time .
Could it have been a Boer war liason or holiday romance ?
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:10:04 +0000Coincidence ID:5839
