Hi Alysone (is it Rosalie?) and Pinkshoes,
alysone wrote:[Isabella Melrose's parents' names are very different from the 1870 MC.]
Do you have a hunch about this?
Er, not sure what you mean by hunch? I'm only into wild guesses.
I'd just mentioned it in passing before someone else did...!
Compare Isabella's parent details on the 1870 MC to the 1912 DC; they are
very different.
But it is the same Isabella Melrose - the MC is correct.
Her father
John though
was a carter in 1861.
In 1851 Isabella is as born Roxburghshire then,
in 1861, 1871 as born Berwickshire, and in 1881, 1891, 1901 it's Selkirkshire.
(doesn't alter anything; just thought you'd like to know...)
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I suppose it was wee Joan PURVES that sort of started it all off....
I'd only meant to check the 1871 & 1881 censuses to see if Mary DARLING was still living.
(this to narrow down her death - i now know she died 1871)
But i wondered who this 18yr old gr-daur with Mary on the 1871 census was.
I then found Joan in 1881 as a daur-in-law with the FRAME family, but that relationship didn't seem right.
It was soon discovered that Robert FRAME had married an Isabella CROOKSTON.
Surely too much of a coincidence....
So i could only think that she was Mary DARLING's daur - but where was Isabella in 1841 & 1851?
I couldn't see an
Isabella CROOKSTON that fitted what was known about Isabella FRAME.
The only person that seemed at all suitable was
Isabella ORMISTON.
As i couldn't find an 1855+ DC for an Isabella Ormiston it was possible she had died 1851-1855.
Then later i discovered (3) Andrew SCOUGALL's 1870 MC had his parents as
(2)
Andrew SCOUGALL & Isabella CROOKSTON, and
neither were as deceased.
And that we knew that the (3) Andrew with Mary DARLING was her gr-son, and his parents were
Andrew SCOUGAL & Isabella ORMISTON.
That's why i thought
Isabella ORMISTON &
Isabella CROOKSTON were the same person....
So i went back and looked at Isabella & Joan through the censuses, then to their DCs.
The end result being that Isabella was as Mary Darling's daur, and that Joan was Isabella's daur.
Which, returning to the beginning, explained Joan PURVES as Mary's gr-daur.
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But is Isabella ORMISTON the daur of James ORMISTON & Isabella KILGOUR?
I
only doubt because she was born St. Cuthberts, Edinburgh, and not Cranston,
and that her age is more consistent to having been born around 1824, and not 1828.
Ages though can be very misleading, but not usually
increased when married to someone
younger!
And birthplaces too; one example is the above Isabella Melrose!
Jack
I have at last gone through all Jack's information and entered it all in my programme - the fog has cleared 
One thing about this obsession, moving in a straight line is not always how one progresses!?
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please don't send us any more possible Crookston fathers! )