Thanks for summarising the relationship. I will try to investigate further once life returns to something like normal and I can get into archives.

Yes, indeed – I hope the following explanation might will be clear!

Lady Augusta Murray’s mother, Charlotte Stewart, was a younger sister of Catherine (Katie), who married James Murray of Broughton and lived at Cally.

Catherine and Charlotte’s father, 6th Earl of Galloway, was the brother of Lady Euphemia, who was the mother of James Murray.

Lady Katie therefore married her first cousin, a frequent occurrence at that time.

Lady Augusta Murray, the subject of my book ‘Forbidden Wife’, was therefore the niece of Lady Katie and cousin, once removed, of James Murray of Broughton. The Stewart family tree at the beginning of the book may be helpful?

I wonder whether the Temple at Cally was built at the instigation of Lady Catherine or James Murray and Grace Johnston?

Hello Julia and thanks for this fascinating extra information. Is James Murray any relation of Augusta Murray, of Dunmore Pineapple fame, whom you wrote about so movingly recently?

You’ve spent too many years living just down the road from the Ally Pally!