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James Rattray and His Descendants in South Africa, 1822-1992
James Rattray married Helen Begg, born 1797 at Balgray, Scotland, daughter of Robert Beig and Margaret Coupar. They were married at Tealing, near Dundee Scotland in 1818. They immigrated to South Africa in 1822, first living in Tulbagh and later Worcester. Descendants lived in South Africa, California, and elsewhere.
The Scottish Nation
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The Dundee directory
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The Heiress vs the Establishment
In 1922, Elizabeth Bethune Campbell, a Toronto-born socialite, unearthed what she initially thought was an unsigned copy of her mother’s will, designating her as the primary beneficiary of the estate. The discovery snowballed into a fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment, as Mrs. Campbell attempted to prove that her uncle, a prominent member of Ontario’s legal circle, had stolen funds from her mother’s estate. In 1930, she argued her case before the Law Lords of the Privy Council in London. A non-lawyer and Canadian, with no formal education or legal training, Campbell was the first woman to ever appear before them. She won. Reprinted here in its entirety, Campbell’s self-published account of her campaign, Where Angels Fear to Tread, is an eloquent first-person view of intrigue and overlapping spheres of influence in the early-twentieth-century legal system. Constance Backhouse and Nancy Backhouse provide extensive commentary and annotations to lluminate the context and pick up the narrative where Campbell’s book leaves off. Vibrantly written, this is an enthralling read. Not only a fascinating social and legal history, it’s also a very good story.
The London Gazette
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