Madeleine and James’s divorice case was covered in vol. 23.4 of Histor y Scotland. At the time of publication, nothing further was known about what happened to Madeleine; the only clues were a newspaper report she had gone to live with an aunt in Portobello, and in a letter to her husband she had written ‘Miss C will always know where I am’. This could have been her sister Catharine Annie Hunter.
Now, more information has come to light, enabling further research, which I am sharing here.
After her fall from grace in Edinburgh, Madeleine rose again in Victorian society, only to fall yet again through no fault of her own. This is her story.
From Portobello to Sydney
The Annandale and Hunter families were related, as James Hunter Annandale’s grandmother and Madeleine’s grandmother were sisters. When James’ father, Alexander Annandale, died
