Below: Will of Maggie McLean, spinster. She must have been  Sarah Marion's sister, Margaret Nicholson's aunt.  She had money and Norman kept track of her money and maybe invested it for her. She appears to have 2,400$ in cash in 1906 and a number of investments, mostly bonds--and a house.  Norman kept the records. Norman also owed her some money and paid her interest.  (The old lady was illiterate; on the back of this page it says she cannot even sign her name.) But, as this document shows, she left her money to someone named Sarah Evans at the last minute.  This may be the Sarah the Nicholsons seem to hate so much in 1912, when they are squabbling over mother Sarah Marion's  money. (Read the letters.)  Letters show that this revised will came as quite a shock to the Nicholsons. Herb especially. He expresses his disappointment in a 1907 letter writing that this snub takes away all his chances for the future. Even at 21, he liked to blame his situation on other people. Another relative, a Nielson, writes about possibly contesting the will. Of course, Norman Nicholson was broke and in debt in 1907, with about 33 dollars in his bank account, his business having failed and with no chance for work in Richmond. With the help of local Member of Parliament, E. W. Tobin, he petitioned for and got a job on the Transcontinental Railroad as Inspector--and the Tighsolas Saga on this website begins.  So, all the valuable social history about Canada in the 1910 era contained on this Tighsolas website may be owed to one Maggie McLean, spiteful spinster from Isle of Coll in Scotland. Now why did Maggie change her will? Let me speculate. In late 1906 two Nicholson daughters, Edith and Marion, started working as teachers. Son, Herb had been in the workforce for a couple of years already.  Maybe Maggie felt that her niece and nephew, Margaret and  Norman Nicholson  were lucky enough to have 3 children working --  or maybe she didn't approve of young women working as professionals, or of Margaret's vocal support of suffrage?  Now wouldn't THAT be ironic? Maybe A.C. McLean is the "Uncle Alec" who argued with her over suffrage.