Jeanie

AI generated using search term: working class young woman 1970,  short bob hairstyle, fishing port, scotland

Jeanie Stewart, entirely fictitious character (image AI generated), born 1947 in Glasgow, daughter of a docker who died when she was 7. Jeanie’s mother was left destitute and the family was split up. She and two of her siblings, Grace and Frank, were boarded out, fostered by crofting families in the Highlands. Her older brother Billy and baby sister Violet stayed in Glasgow with their mother.

Jeanie left school at 15 but meeting Dora in 1970 changes her life. She ultimately becomes a professor of astronomy, with Dora’s help. Jeanie married archaeologist Gordon in 1976 and had daughter Sarah in 1978. Sarah married Michael in 2000 and their daughter, Jeanie’s granddaughter, Maisie, was born in 2002 and grandson Kevin born 2006.