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Help[Games] Re: Rachel Shaina's Keep Up Yourself Congrats Round 3
in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
Surname: Sutherland
DH: Robert David (32)
DW: Catherine Frances (28)
DD: Margaret Rose (10, b. 1900)
DS: James Robert (8, b. 1902)
DD: Agatha Grace (5, b. 1905)
DD: Elizabeth Catherine (2, b. 1908)
AS: Robert Warren "Bobby" (nb, b. 1910)
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the Sutherland family, well... for Catherine anyway. She has spent the past 5 years pining for Robert whenever he was away working in the big city or waiting on him hand and foot whenever he was at home. Elizabeth is beginning to question whether her parents made the right decision in giving Robert Catherine's hand in marriage. While work was still hard to come by, it wasn't bad enough for him to be working in Glasgow all the time and so Elizabeth became suspicious of her sister's husband.
Her suspicions were confirmed one summer's day in 1910 when she opened the front door of the house they all shared to find a basket, and inside a baby of all things. With the baby came a note from someone named Bette Warren claiming to have been in some sort of relationship with Robert in Glasgow. A relationship which had resulted in the birth of a baby boy, the child in the basket. She was anxious to keep such a terrible secret from her frail sister who was already stressed enough and yet she couldn't bear to abandon this tiny child the same way his own mother already had. So Elizabeth spun a tale about a friend of a friend who had died leaving a baby boy and how she had offered to take him in. Catherine, though shy and quiet was also a very loving woman with a big heart and agreed her sister had made the right choice, she even insisted on making him part of her own family (because Elizabeth was not married and it would look far more proper if he were adopted into a nice loving MARRIED family). Elizabeth named him, Robert Warren, so that when Robert Sr. came back from his 'work' in Glasgow he would know that she was onto him.
The other children meanwhile were getting along fine and were overjoyed to have another baby in the family, especially James who had had quite enough of being the only boy! There was another surprise in store for the family when, the week after Bobby was found, Catherine announced she had discovered she was pregnant again, with the baby due next year. While the children were very excited, Elizabeth noted, and was concerned by, the lack of excitement or even happiness in Robert's letter in reply to the one Catherine sent to tell him the good news.
DH: Robert David (32)
DW: Catherine Frances (28)
DD: Margaret Rose (10, b. 1900)
DS: James Robert (8, b. 1902)
DD: Agatha Grace (5, b. 1905)
DD: Elizabeth Catherine (2, b. 1908)
AS: Robert Warren "Bobby" (nb, b. 1910)
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the Sutherland family, well... for Catherine anyway. She has spent the past 5 years pining for Robert whenever he was away working in the big city or waiting on him hand and foot whenever he was at home. Elizabeth is beginning to question whether her parents made the right decision in giving Robert Catherine's hand in marriage. While work was still hard to come by, it wasn't bad enough for him to be working in Glasgow all the time and so Elizabeth became suspicious of her sister's husband.
Her suspicions were confirmed one summer's day in 1910 when she opened the front door of the house they all shared to find a basket, and inside a baby of all things. With the baby came a note from someone named Bette Warren claiming to have been in some sort of relationship with Robert in Glasgow. A relationship which had resulted in the birth of a baby boy, the child in the basket. She was anxious to keep such a terrible secret from her frail sister who was already stressed enough and yet she couldn't bear to abandon this tiny child the same way his own mother already had. So Elizabeth spun a tale about a friend of a friend who had died leaving a baby boy and how she had offered to take him in. Catherine, though shy and quiet was also a very loving woman with a big heart and agreed her sister had made the right choice, she even insisted on making him part of her own family (because Elizabeth was not married and it would look far more proper if he were adopted into a nice loving MARRIED family). Elizabeth named him, Robert Warren, so that when Robert Sr. came back from his 'work' in Glasgow he would know that she was onto him.
The other children meanwhile were getting along fine and were overjoyed to have another baby in the family, especially James who had had quite enough of being the only boy! There was another surprise in store for the family when, the week after Bobby was found, Catherine announced she had discovered she was pregnant again, with the baby due next year. While the children were very excited, Elizabeth noted, and was concerned by, the lack of excitement or even happiness in Robert's letter in reply to the one Catherine sent to tell him the good news.
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