Dear Mary,
What a wonderful rosy story to wake to this morning. My Mothers name is
Roslyn and my daughters middle name is Rose. I have an Aunt Rose Anne.
There's Bunches of them.
Have a rosy day
Annie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose" <jeannie@brookmarket.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
> I have just read Nivens letter re Margaret Sinclair and can't help adding
my
> own "tuppence". 50 years ago when I was a wee girl of 11, my little sister
> was born. Our Father was James Irvine Sinclair from St. Margarets Hope,
> Orkney. My Mother and I tried to think of a name which was not in the
> family and settled on Margaret Rosalind Sinclair. We later realised that
not
> only did Dad come from St. Margarets Hope, he also had a Sister who still
> lived there in a house called Roselea,and was called
Maggie...i.e,Margaret.
> In those days Orkney was the other end of the world as far as we were
> concerned as we were poor.
> To add to the "coincidence" my daughter Heidi. called her first daughter
> Roselea.....I spent a year working there and got to know some of my
Fathers
> friends and Heidi enjoyed going to see Auntie Maggie and her daughters and
> fell in love with the house.
> Roselea is now almost 13 and is a computer whiz. She has Cystic Fibrosis
and
> is the bravest little lady I know. She started writing short stories when
> she was 10 and her heroine was called Rosebelle. She now "runs" her own
> Equestrian Centre called Rose Acres.as she is madly into ponies.
> I lived in Stirling for 15 years and never knew about Rosslyn until last
> year.....4 years after leaving Scotland and only visited for the first
time
> last year whilst visiting my friends in Stirling.
> Even stranger is the fact that my Father had a tattoo on his arm with a
pink
> Rose on. When I had grown up I found out that my Father had lost his first
> wife Rose in childbirth. My Mother was called Warder Rosalaid Wells.
> My Sister married Paul Ellis and their only son is Steven..for no
> particular reason.
> What I am trying to say, I guess is that sometimes 2+2=5. Margaret was
> also the fourth child.
> Yours in kinship Mary Jean Sinclair.
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