Eva Maud Mary THORNE and James STEWART met on holiday in Crieff, on the edge of the Southern Highlands in Perthshire. Their daughter Mabel Georgina Stewart THORNE was born 11 Jan 1910 at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh. Father: James STEWART, Insurance Agent, and Mother: Eva Maud Mary THORNE, Nurse (Domestic) residing at 17 Lismore Street, Carlisle, England. Birth was registered 25 Jan 1910 at Edinburgh by Eva MM THORNE, Mother. (no date or place of marriage) [Registration District of Saint Giles in the City of Edinburgh, Entry No 96]

Correction to birth certificate
In the fourth Column of Entry no 96 in the register of births for the year 1910, before the name of the child's mother insert 'James Stewart, Insurance Agent' on the authority of a certificate in the form of Schedule (E) to the following effect:-
In An Action relating to the paternity of a female named ...... born 11th January 1910 at the instance of (Poor) Eva Maud Mary Thorne, Domestic Servant, 142 Daly (Dalry) Road, Edinburgh pursuer against James Stewart, Insurance agent, 6 Arthur Street, Dundee, Defender, the sheriff subsitute of Forfarshire at Dundee on 4th May 1910 found that the said child was the illegitimate child of the said (Poor) Eva Maud Mary Thorne and James Stewart.
At Edinburgh 30 May 1910
[Register of Corrected Entries for the District of Saint Giles in the Parish of Edinburgh, Vol 21, Page 157] (transcribed by Andrea Powney at GRO Edinburgh)

Extract Decree of Affiliation & Ailment
(Poor) Eva Maud Mary Thorne v James Stewart
At Dundee the fourth day of May nineteen hundred and ten years in an action in the Sheriff Court of the County of Forfar at Dundee at the instance of (Poor) Eva Maud Mary Thorne, Domestic Servant of 142 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, Pursuer against James Stewart, Insurance agent, 6 Arthur Street, Dundee, Defender, The Sheriff in absence, Decerned the Defender to pay to the Pursuer the sums after mentioned in respect he was the father of an illegitimate female child of which the Pursuer was delivered at the Royal Maternity Hospital Edinburgh in the District of Saint Giles in the City of Edinburgh on the Eleventh day of January nineteen hundred and ten viz Two pounds two shillings for inlying charges and Seven pounds sixteen shillings per annum for fourteen years as ailment for said child payable said ailment quarterly in advance and beginning from said date of birth with interest thereon from the respective dates of payment and three pounds five shillings and seven pence of expenses. And the Sheriff Grants Warrant for all lawful execution hereon by instant Arrestment and also by Poinding after a charge of Seven free days if the Defender is within Scotland and fourteen days if furth thereof. Extracted at Dundee this nineteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and ten years by me. [Ref SC 45/6/30 p272] (transcribed by AD)

So James STEWART was ordered by the court to pay Eva Maud Mary THORNE £2/2/- for hospital expenses, £7/16/- per annum for 14 years for child support, to be paid quarterly in advance, as well as £3/5/7 for court expenses. That would be a total of £114/9/7. If he defaulted on payment for 7 days if within Scotland or 14 days if not in Scotland he would be arrested and charged. 'Poinding' seems to be a term unique to Scotland which means assets would be sold to recover debts.
Eva was 29 yrs of age when her daughter Mabel Georgina was born. Mabel was told that her father worked for the Pearl Insurance Company Company in Edinburgh and that he had died shortly after she was born.

Death of James Duncan STEWART
James Duncan STEWART, Hackle Maker (Operative), Single, aged 29 yrs, son of William STEWART, Tailor (Journeyman) (deceased) and Jemima Marion STEWART ms DUNCAN, was found drowned on 26 July 1911 at 10 am on Sea Beach near Eastfield, Portobello. Usual residence: 11 Rosebery Street, Dundee, (County of Angus). Cause of death was Drowning as certified by Harvey LITTLEJOHN MB after an examination of the body of the deceased. Informant was Jemima M STEWART, Mother of 11 Rosebery Street, Dundee who registered the death on 27 July 1911 at Portobello [District of Portbello in the City of Edinburgh R/N 113]
(A hacklemaker or hecklemaker was a maker of flax dressing combs.)

Joppa Beach 27 Aug 2006

Cast up By Tide Supposed Dundee Love Tragedy A Lochee young man who had been discarded by his sweetheart in favour of another, threatened to take his life, so keely did he feel his misfortune. He left home last week for the purpose of spending a holiday in the South. The body of a man about thirty years of age, 6 foot in height, dressed in a brownish lounge suit, brown leather lacing tacketed boots, a double collar and a heavy silk tie, was discovered by three boys on the sea beach at Eastfield, Joppa, yesterday morning. This description corresponds with the appearance, when he left home, of the Lochee man, whose mother was informed of the occurence, and leaves for Portobello to-day to ascertain whether or not the body is that of her son. [The Dundee Advertiser, Thursday 27 Jul 1911 p7] (transcribed by AP at Dundee Library)

Dundee man's fate
Says he is broken-hearted
"Dear Mother, - this is the last news you will get from me. - your broken-hearted son, Jim"
This was the sad note which Mrs Stewart, Dalmeny Place, 11 Rosebery Street, Dundee, received from her son a week ago. At the same time Mrs Williamson, Mrs Stewart's daughter received a note in the following terms:- "Dear Lizzie - this is the last you will hear from me. I have said 'good-bye' to uncle. Be good to Mother - your broken-hearted brother, Jim"
"Jim" was James Duncan Stewart (29), a hacklemaker, whose body, as reported in yesterday's 'Dundee Advertiser', was washed ashore at Eastfield Beach, Portobello, on Wednesday morning, and was identified yesterday. He was greatly depressed as the result of a love disappointment, and on the evening of July 18 told his mother that he was to end his life. Mrs Stewart was shocked at the statement, and remonstrated with him. Ultimately she advised her son to spend a few days with some friends at Bonnyrigg, and he acquiesced in the arrangement. He left early on the morning of the 19th with the intention of proceeding to Bonnyrigg. Mrs Stewart wrote requesting to be informed when her son arrived. No reply was forthcoming, and getting alarmed she wired. The answer was - "Jim has not arrived", and then came the tragic letter from Portobello, the last thing that was heard of him until his body was discovered. He is described by neighbours as being an exemplary young man, of a quiet retiring disposition, steady and regular in his habits, and a dutiful son in every way.
[The Dundee Advertiser, Friday 28 Jul 1911 p3] (transcribed by AD at Dundee Library)