Jane McLauglin Inglis again.....

[ninatoo]

Thanks Sarah,
Yes, I am really chuffed! This particular ancestor and her husband have been driving me crazy for about twenty years now and so it's really good to finally have something that makes sense.

I have already found that she is still not easy to find! I might be able to make links through DNA matching at Ancestry though because there are a few third and fourth cousins connected to the surname Hanlon. It will take time but I think I may be on the right track finally!

[WilmaM]

She did indeed make the news:
Saturday 15 November 1873 'North British Daily Mail'

A young woman, whose maiden name is Jane Hanlan, was at yesterday's Police Court re- mitted to the Sheriff for examination on a charge of bigamy. It appears that about 10 years ago she was married in Partick to a man to a man of the name of Caine, The marriage was not a happy one, however, and some months after Caine “ went forth,” no one knew where, The forsaken wife, after the lapse of seven long years years, during which inquiries had been tepeatedly made after her lost husband, mesting with a man named Cotterill, him to coa- sole her by leading her again to the Hymeneal altar. All went smoothly till about a year afterwards, when Cotterill, being employed in a shipbuilding yard at Port-Glasgow, formed an acquaintance with a fellow- workman known as Brown. The two returned to Partick, and a mutual friend, recognising in Brown the long-lost Caine, introduced the men to each other in thelr real characters. Nothing of startling or particularly romantic character ensued; Jane con- tinued to reside with her last acquisition, whom she ecoms to have preferred and Caine, apparently quite indifferent about the matter, gave no treuble what- tm ever All three have forsome months been residing

That's as much as I can piece together from the BNA.

The next question is why did 'Caine' become 'Brown'? what was he running away from in the city?

[SarahND]

Great find, Wilma!!

[ninatoo]

Wow, thank you so much Wilma!! I would love to know what came after that last unfinished sentence!

What is with them all changing their names all the time!!! Brown?

I am not having any luck with Jane under her Hanlon surname either. I have spent the whole day looking everywhere I can think of and have not had any sightings of a Jane Hanlon being born, in a census, with either reputed parent (can't find likely parents either) or boarding somewhere, so now I am wondering if even that name is made up. Similarly William Kane seems to be a dark horse as well, but I suspect his family is from Ireland.

It is a real puzzle!