Andrew, Jennie, and daughter Sandra, Kirkpatrick

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: see the wedding photo of Jeanett and Douglas.

When my grandma Wallace was left a widow with 6 children in the very early 20th century, so I'm told, made lunches for the foremen from the shipyards( a full, large, hot main meal) and also took in boarders. The boarders slept in the front room, grandma and the 4 oldest, in the hole-in-the-wall bed in the main room, and mum and Uncle John, slept on the padded floor of the hall closet. One of the boarders was Andrew Kirkpatrick. I think I remember that Andrew "was married from" grandma's home. His wife had been to University - which was considered "way above our station in life." She was tall, with aquiline features - very elegant - and I think my mother was slightly in awe of her. Andrew was a hard-working, fun-loving, enterprising man. And loved visiting our home. The K's bought a bungalow (fancy word,then) on Great Western Road, in Drumchapel. At the start of WWII,what was called "the phoney war," Mother, Jenny, Jeanette, me, and 3-yr-old Sandra were evacuated to the Lanark home of the Murrays who were Jenny Ks parents. Andrew moved in with Dad and Campbell. The men visited us on the week-ends.

This arrangement didn't last too long, and mum, Jeanette and I returned to Glasgow. Jeanett and I were shortly thereafter, sent to Buchlivie,in Stirlingshire, on evacuation.