It’s been a while since I last posted.
Early last year I received a message through this site from two very lovely women, Elizabeth and Carolyne who found my site while researching their family tree. They have memories of their great aunt, who was Ophelia’s mother, living with their grandmother in Edinburgh.
The first thing they could confirm was that Ophelia went by her middle name, Rosalind, and that indeed the H in RHS is Harryanne. They also brought along wonderful family photographs, including this one of Rosalind and her mother.
Such a beautiful image, every bit the victorian lady artist. One of my first goals with my research was to put a face to the Eccentric Scrapbooker and now, thanks to Elizabeth and Carolyne, I can finally see the person who worked so painstakingly to create such a wonderful book.
We met up for a coffee together in between lockdowns and had a great discussion, I could really feel the passion these two women have for finding out more about their family and their delight in finding the book. Together we put together the pieces we both knew, they were able to confirm a lot of the details that I had found and rule out others.
It was such an exciting day, I’m afraid it’s taken me such a long time to write things up due to moving house and a pandemic, not necessarily in that order. I hope that at a future date we can meet again to see if there are anymore mysteries to unravel together.
Who Was Ophelia RHS Stuart? 