Thank you, Robert.
William Scott-Kerr had spoken to Charlotte when she was 15 and implied that she was in fact not his step-daughter, but his daughter. When in 1856, aged 21, Charlotte is contemplating giving up her share of the Douglas inheritance to her older sisters (presumably because she feels she is not entitled to it), William Scott-Kerr retracts his earlier statement, saying that it was just gossip.
Charlotte doesn't know what to believe. She says: " I began the year believing myself to be a
K(err), spent part in doubt, and ended it a D(ouglas). I hope the latter is right."
Charlotte married her cousin Edward Octavius Douglas on 3rd November 1859, and they lived at Killiechassie, Dunkeld (now owned by J.K. Rowling)
Regards,
Lesley