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Thank you Evie for taking the time to help me...

Not sure if it's the flu or what, but I still don't know if I am coming or going.

At the moment I am looking for Catherine & Margaret in Kilmiur, Inverness-shire to see if I can match them together with their family.

Thanks again for your kindness and thank you for using your credits to look up the marriage for me.

Kindest regards

Dee

I love guilting people with my scotlandspeople credits. ;)

But no, seriously, I have a bunch left over because I needed a very few recently to check the one bizarre Scottish bit of my own family (I have no idea why my Wiltshire-born and Wiltshire-died grx3 grfather shows up in the census in Scotland in 1841, having (re)married there 2 years earlier ...). I really have no use for them now. There's just no point in me looking at the image when you'll need to anyhow if it seems of any interest.


Now, in 1881:

Name: Catherine Cameron
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Relationship: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Kilmuir (G), Invernessshire
Registration Number: 646/2
Registration district: Partick
Civil Parish: Partick
Town: Hillhead
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 12 Bank St
Occupation: Nurse

-- she matches up reasonably well with the 1891 Catherine Cadell -- born in Kilmuir, liiving in Lanarkshire, wouldn't be unusual for later census to show her as born in Lanarkshire, for instance if her husband didn't know where she was born, just where she "came from".

I don't find a Cameron-Caddell marriage 1881-1891 at SP though.

Ah yes, I just realized (I'd noticed that Margaret in 1901 and then let her slip my mind back when I was looking at the Caddells) -- the Margaret alviegal pointed to was:

Margaret MacDonald 18 Kilmuir, Inverness shire

Two strikes for Kilmuir. Interesting.

1891


Name: Margret MacDonald
Age: 8
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883
Relationship: Daur (Daughter)
Mother's Name: Ann
Gender: Female
Where born: Kilmuir, Invernesshire

Name: Ann MacDonald
Age: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851
Relationship: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Kilmuir, Invernesshire
Occupation: Domestic Servant

Civil Parish: Kilmuir

Ann MacDonald 40
Margret MacDonald 8

Not a perfect match, in 1871:


Name: Cathrin McDonald
Age: 3 Mo
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1871
Relationship: Grandaughter (Granddaughter)
Father's Name: Ronald
Mother's Name: Ann
Where born: Kilmuir, Inverness Shire
Occupation: Farmer's Granddar

Civil Parish: Kilmuir

Cathren McDonald 60
Ronald McDonald 37
Ann McDonald 27 (older)
Donald McDonald 6
Kenneth McDonald 4
Ann McDonald 2
Cathrin McDonald 3 Mo

Looks like the same household in 1881:


Name: Ronald McDonald
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Ann
Where born: Stensholl G, Inverness Shire
Occupation: Crofter Of 7 Acres Arable

Name: Ann McDonald
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's name : Ronald
Where born: Kilmuir G, Inverness Shire

Ronald McDonald 50
Ann McDonald 38
Kenneth McDonald 14
Ann McDonald 12
>> Kate McDonald 10 - born Stensholl G, Inverness Shire
Cathren McDonald 7 - ??
Samuel McDonald 5
Donald McDonald 3
Meron McDonald 1

Might that Ronald have remarried and then died by 1891?

Name: Effie McDonald
Age: 60
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relationship: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Kilmuir, Invernesshire
Occupation: Crofter

Civil Parish: Kilmuir

Effie McDonald 60
Donald McDonald 23 (? Maybe Effie's son?)
Kate McDonald 20 - born Kilmuir
Catherine McDonald 18


So many webs!

Oh, well.

That Kate in 1901:


Name: Kate MacDonald
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872
Relationship: Sister
Gender: Female
Where born: Kilmuir, Invernesshire
Occupation: General Servant (domestic)

Donald MacDonald 32 - farmer
Kate MacDonald 29
Catherine MacDonald 27


siiiiigh.

Hi Evie

Think I am back in the land of the living!

Bit of a lovely surprise to see all your hard work with the McDonalds (Ronald McDonald, eh?)

Will digest your findings tomorrow, to see what is what. I have been thinking about the Catherine McDonald and Thomas Caddell marriage, that sounds likely, doesn't it? (Cannot be too many Catherine McDonalds marrying Caddells around that time in that area) and I agree that she could just be "married off" to William Turner, in error. Without seeing the original census, it is difficult to say. Unless of course, the marriage was short and she then cohabited with WT? She did seem to flit from one to another. One thing I find puzzling, if she was marrying Thomas Caddell and he was John Caddell McDonald's father, why she didn't name him as the father in the birth cert, and did not use the Caddell surname to register his birth. (Perhaps another Caddell was the guilty party and used a son to cover up).

Once I establish how to work Scottish People, I will see who Catherine's parents were and that should put me on the right track. If it is the right Catherine.

Thanks again Evie for your efforts, it is good to have someone to "chew" this over with, the family are not really interested!

Kindest regards

Dee

Another discussion of this family:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1339228?jump=1339228