DORNAN, Margaret

   Another name for Margaret was DORNAN, Margaret Campbell.

Margaret married Michael SMITH, son of Robert SMITH and Mary Ann DONALDSON, on 24 Jan 1928 in St Margaret's RC Church, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. (Michael SMITH was born 15 December 1903 at 9.40 pm in Cassells Land, Baillieston, Lanarkshire, Scotland ², christened on 18 Dec 1903 in St Bridget's RC Church, Baillieston, Lanarkshire, Scotland ³ and died 9 December 1975 at 10.45 am in Lightburn Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

The marriage was celebrated after banns according to the rites and forms of the Roman Catholic Church. Stephen A. L. Thornton was the priest. Thomas Breen of 52 Quarry Road Airdrie, and Elizabeth Dornan of 130 Cairnhill Road Airdrie, were the witnesses.

The bridegroom was an unmarried man of 24 years of age who was a general labourer. He lived at 58 Buchanan Street Baillieston. His mother was deceased.

The bride was unmarried and aged 28 years. She was a drapery shop assistant who lived at 130 Cairnhill Road Airdrie.

The marriage was registered at Airdrie on 27 January 1928.

Note: Stephen Thornton DSO MC was a Glaswegian who served in Lanarkshire parishes before volunteering as a military chaplain on the outbreak of World War I in 1914. So brave was he in attending to the wounded under shell fire that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the DSO. later he was also awarded the Military Cross for taking command when all senior officers and NCOs had been killed. Parish priest of St Margaret's from the mid 1920s, he became Dean Thornton, and was often controversial and provocative. He died in 1937.
for more detail see
http://www.stmargaretsairdrie.org.uk/history.html ⁴

Margaret next married.

Margaret next married Helen DARROCH.¹ (Helen DARROCH was born in 1844 in Crosshill, Ayrshire, Scotland ⁵ and died on 1 Jul 1882 ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Abraham (Forbes) of Blackton, born March 2nd, 1558-59, married Janet Duncan of Merdrum and had issue."

from House of Forbes ¹