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My grandmother lived at 168 Mill Road Carluke according to the 1901 census, and the Golds lived in Westfield, Clyde street, about a half mile away. Jane was about 4 years older than "Auntie Fame". Jane's father, Andrew, was a gardener and nurseryman, so it's not inconceivable that he was the gardener at Westfield. Euphemia visited my grandmother when she was living in Cambusnethan, which is where my mother remembers seeing her. My mother can't remember much more, except that Auntie Fame was incredibly glamorous to her young eyes. I guess Euphemia would have been in her mid-30s then, and my mother was about 7 or 8.

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I'm coming very late to this conversation to add something about Euphemia Gold...

She did not go to Australia. My mother (now 82) remembers her as an old schoolfriend of her mother, Janet Young. My mother knew her as "Auntie Fame", so Fame, rather than Effie to her friends. Rather shockingly for the 1930s, she wore trousers, smoked cigarettes, and drove a motor car. My mother thinks she was married with 2 sons, one of whom taught my mother to ride a bike. She lived in Braidwood, near Carluke. Nothing to verify this except my mother's memories, and I cannot find any marriage record, but I hope this helps.

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