Does anyone remember The Chisholm family of St, Leonards on Sea?

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Catherine (Kate) M. Chisholm (nee MacGilvray ) 1874 -1947, was my great aunt.
Here is some information that I have managed to gather. It may or may not be totally right. Please make corrections.

In 1900 Catherine MacGilvray (Kate) married James Chisholm. She was 26 and had qualified as a nurse and teacher. He had trained as a doctor. Together they went to Africa as missionaries.

Her nephew Ken Chisholm, wrote Kate trained as a nurse and they went out to East Africa. They sailed from Britain to Mombasa and traveled a thousand miles or more to Mwenzo where they settled in the missionary station and hospital. They came home for leave at long intervals and Ken met them when he was a youngster.

1919 Mr J A Chisholm in the UK, Incoming Passenger Lists,
Birth Date: abt 1873
Age: 46
Port of Departure: South Africa
Arrival Date: 29 May 1919
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Cape Town
Ship Name: Llanstephan Castle
Travelling with his wife, Kate, and daughter Maisie.

Kate's husband, Dr. James Chisholm, died in Africa in 1936. Ken Chisholm wrote; Kate had returned to UK some time before and Ken saw her on a few rare occasions. They had three children –James, Ian and Mary (known as Maisie)

Addresses for Kate;
Chisholm K.
67 Pevensey Road St. Leonards-on-Sea.
A detached freehold residence built before 1900.

1940 After the death of her husband in 1936 in Africa, Kate ran a hotel in St Leonards-on -Sea.
Her parents, John and Catherine MacGilvray, had owned a hotel in Inverness. Their daughters had helped to run it, so running a hotel was not a new occupation for her.

Was one The Albion Hotel?

Address in 1940s
Abbotsford (Hotel) 31, Warrior Square, St Leonards Sussex.
Photo; Abbotsford Hotel, overlooking sea and gardens. Phone number; 585.
http://www.1066online.co.uk/gallery/old ... hotel-1928
From the web; Warrior Square, At once the abode of quiet and elegance, being composed of the finest houses in the borough. The extensive gardens in the centre are very tastefully laid out. The Hastings and St. Leonards Horticultural Society holds its annual meetings in these gardens”. The gardens in the centre were completed over a decade earlier in 1852.The lower gardens were opened to the general public when the land was acquired by the Borough Council in 1920 with the remaining, uppermost rose garden falling into public ownership in 1930
On the South side of Warrior Gardens and originally opened in 1879, was the 'Warrior Square Opera House'.

Children of Kate Chisholm (nee MacGilvray) and James A Chisholm;
James Livingstone Chisholm 1902-1964
Ian MacGilvray Chisholm 1904-1966 (Dentist in St. Leonards-on-Sea).
Maisie Chisholm 1907. Died Canada.

Maisie married William Reid a shipping clerk in 1929. They moved to Canada and he worked with the Canadian Pacific Railway whilst studying to be a doctor. He graduated and became a GP in the Quebec area. Kate sailed to Canada to stay with her daughter; Maisie.
Mrs. K Chisholm, passenger on 'The Empress of Australia' Deck D Cabin 469 Canadian Pacific R. Line, Southampton.

Ian Chisholm had a dental practice in St. Leonards-on-Sea
Dr. I.M. Chisholm,
Droxford House,
1 Charles Road,
St, Leonard's-on-Sea.

Kate ran The Riviera Hotel.
Riviera Boarding Establishment
12 Warrior Square, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Circa 1904. Image from the Geoff Wolfe Collection, copyright 1066online.

1947 Chisholm Kate. Riviera Hotel, Warrior Square, St Leonards on Sea.
Kate died in 1947 aged about 73.
Probate; Chisholm, Catherine (otherwise Kate) of The Riviera Private Hotel, St. Leonards-on-Sea, widow, died 12 October 1947 at The Buchanan Hospital, London Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Probate London 15th January, to James Livingstone Chisholm, medical practitioner and Ian MacGilvray Chisholm, dentist, Effects £7,589.8s.8d.

Her husband, J. A. Chisholm, is shown as a Captain in the Northern Rhodesia Medical Corps on the 1914/1915 Star Medal Roll, the roll shows an entry date into (an unspecified) theatre of operations of 1st October 1914.On the same page of the Medal Roll is an entry for Nursing Sister Mrs. Kate M. Chisholm, same entry date into theatre.

Medal 1)
UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920
Name: Kate M Mrs Chisholm
Military Year: 1914-1915
Rank: Nursing Sister
Medal Awarded: 1914-15 Star
Regiment or Corps: Northern Rhodesia Medical Corps
Award certified in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia Rifles Headquarters 6.6.1918 by H.K.Stewart? Lt. Colonel.

Medal 2).
Kate M Chisholm in the UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 Northern Rhodesia Medical Corps. African Theatre, N. Rhodesia Border.
Name: Kate M Chisholm
Military Year: 1914-1920
Rank: Matron
Date of service; 11.5.1916. to 25.11.1918
Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal
Regiment or Corps: Rhodesia Native Regiment
Award certified in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia Rifles Headquarters 28.12.1920 by A. McPherson, Colonel.

In the church in Mwenzo, Africa, a lectern has been dedicated to Kate
'In Loving Memory of Kate Chisholm R.R.C. 1877-1947'.