After her father's death, she lived with her uncle, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Nairn, while the rest of the family stayed with relatives in Dublin, where she later joined them.
After her father's death, she lived with her uncle, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Nairn, and it was he who most instilled in her the values of Christian socialism. At the time the rest of the family stayed with relatives in Dublin, where Kate later joined them.