The following is a history found in Frank B. Scott's records that I inherited after he died in 2000:
"He joined an artillery regiment in Surrey, England, and was posted to many different areas. While posted at Fort Leith, near the City of Leith and the River Leith (near Edinburgh) he met Euphemia Hogg, a domestic working in Leith. He went AWOL for six months and then married Euphemia in 1872.
Because he was a deserter from the Army, he had to constantly try to avoid the military police, which caused him to move from town to town throughout Scotland during their marriage. Of their nine children, not one was born in the same town as another.
In 1895 Queen Victoria granted amnesty to AWOLs, at which time he promptly deserted his wife and went back to England, and was never heard from afterwards.
His date and place of death are unknown. He is considered a "black-sheep" for two reasons: 1) he was not a Scot but a Sassenack,
and 2) he abandoned his family.
Served "peas and vinegar" dish to fishermen returning from "the Forth" and to ploughmen returning from the fields on Toll Road, Kincardine, Scotland.
died as an infant
Last known to be living in Windsor, Ont.
Frank Scott advised that Jessie Baldwin died at age 7.
never married & no known offspring
senile debility
paper maker