John Auld (aka Oal), a ‘Farm Servant’and the second son of Alexander Auld and Elizabeth (m.s. Sutherland), married Angusina Monro, a Domestic Worker, in Port Dunbar, Wick on the 6th June 1867. The marriage certificate shows Angusina, aged 28, was the daughter of Donald Monro, a farmer, and his wife, Barbara, (m.s. Monro). Witnesses at the wedding were John Henderson and John Oal’s youngest sister, Catherine.
A daughter, Catherine, was born about two weeks later on the 19th June 1867. Sadly she died of pneumonia on the 6th April 1869.
The 1881 Census shows that John Auld, a lorryman, and his wife, Ann J. Auld, aged 44, were living at 3 Springhill Place, Dundee. There is obviously a mistake with Angusina’s first name as there is with her place of birth. It is shown as Farr, Sunderland instead of Sutherland! This is typical of errors that creep into transcriptions even after being carefully checked.
There is no further news on them until 1901 when Angusina was staying with James and Wilhemina Arnot and their five children in the ’back of’ Canongate, Edinburgh. She is shown as a 63 year old widow and ‘Mother’ born in Sutherlandshire. It is doubtful if she is the mother of James Arnot, who was a 44 year old ‘Foreman Porter, Railway’ born in Kirkaldy, Fife but more likely of his wife, Wilhelmina, aged 41, who declared that she was born in Sutherlandshire.
James and Wilhelmina were actually married on the 18th June 1886 at 65 Lower Vieweraig Row, Edinburgh. The Register shows her as Wilhelmina Munro Auld, a 26 year old spinster, the daughter of John Auld, a Porter (Provision Store) and Angusina Auld (m.s. Munro). This would imply that she was born about 1860 some seven years before her parents were married.
Angusina died of ‘Senile Decay’ at 5 Argyle Square in Wick on the 11th August 1914, aged 73. There is no further news of John, described as a Farm Servant, Ploughman and latterly a Porter (Provision Store), apart from the fact that he must have died sometime prior to 1901.