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Maria "Mollie" Blair Duncan (nee Watt) and friend
Unknown, 1926, Photograph
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Maria "Mollie" Blair Duncan (nee Watt) and friend
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Maria "Mollie" Blair Duncan (nee Watt) and friend
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Unknown
Date
1926
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Maria "Mollie" Blair Duncan (nee Watt) was born to Scottish born parents, Henry Liang Watt and Jessie McEwan Watt (nee Blair) in 1906 in Canada. The marriage of Henry and Jessie was troubled and the couple divorced shortly after Mollie's birth. Jessie returned to Edinburgh with her two young children, and earned a living as a seamstress. The trade was passed down from mother to daughter, with Mollie working as a seamstress before she married her brother David's best man, John Ronald "Ronnie" Macfarlane Duncan on 21 September 1929.
Ronnie was Industrial Chemist at Glasgow Technical College (now Strathclyde University) so the couple moved to Glasgow shortly after marrying, where they welcomed two children: Ronald "Buddy" Duncan on 6 April 1933 and Moyra Duncan 9 April 1938.
Image from the David Ritchie Watt Family Album.
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