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I was intrigued to read these old posts about the Piggott/Gray Service line. For some time, I have been researching families who settled on Mayne Island, British Columbia -- although I'm not related, for over 30 years I've spent part of my summers there at Piggott Bay, named for this family. My kids and I still make the annual trek out there from American midwest. It is a truly gorgeous spot -- they couldn't have picked a lovelier place to set down roots.
Sadly, the stories of "Lady Grey-Service" of royal blood turn out to be great stories, but not too much fact. Euphemia Gray Service was born April 6, 1867 in Cardross, Dumbartonshire. She does not appear to have been of royal blood, but was the daughter of wholesale grocer John Service (b. 7 APR 1819 in Cardross, Dumbartonshire) and his wife, Euphemia Gray (b. 14 DEC 1832 in Gorbals, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland). I don't know what Euphemia the younger did to disgrace herself in the eyes of her family, although I have discovered that she had previously married a commercial corn agent's clerk named Arthur Robert Paton (b. 1861 in Bangalore, India) in 1894 the Hackney area of London and had a child with him: Effie Grace D Paton, born in 1896 in Hackney. Euphemia, Arthur, and little Effie were living at Woodford, Essex at the time of the 1901 census. What became of the first husband and child? Perhaps it was something about this first marriage that scandalized the family?
Would love to hear from descendants of this line. Does any family member have old photos of the Piggott Bay area?
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