Muiravonside 1841 census - Fisher and/or McCulloch .....

[jennyblain]

I have a couple of pages from SP for the Muiravonside 1841 census. They include Ann and Robert Stewart (Spirit Dealer), and their son Alexander (4 months), living in Linlithgow Bridge, on p 7 of the census record for that area (486/00 001/00 007). However I'd have expected to find Ann's mother, Mary Fisher or McCulloch, and Ann and Robert's elder child, Mary Ann, aged about 2. There's also Ann's brother William Fisher, who would have been around 23 at the time of this census, hence possibly recorded as 20.

(I don't know if at this time Ann's father, William Fisher, was living with his family or indeed if he was still alive - by 1851 Mary McCulloch is described as Widow, and some of Ann's children were living with Mary, who was proprietor of the Bridge Inn).

Does anybody have access to this census who could look on the other pages of Linlithgow Bridge entries? I think that, if they are there, the names may have been blurred or mis-transcribed, as I haven't found them through rather extensive SP searches.

They may, of course, have been visiting elsewhere...

Jenny

[LesleyB]

Hi Jenny
Its early days yet, and someone may come up with what you are looking for, but if not, you could always order the census film from your local LDS Family History Centre for a small fee. Sometimes its better to see the census yourself, especially the 1841 which gives so little away.

There may be other relatives lurking nearby which you would spot, but someone else would not!

Best wishes
Lesley

[jennyblain]

Hi - thought I'd 'revive' this one to see if anybody had seen anything - I managed to get a look at the Ancestry version of the 1841 census but couldn't see anything. Mind you, they didn't know how to spell 'Linlithgow' so it's hard to tell what else could be mistranscribed.

(Unfortunately I don't really have a local family history centre. There is one about an hour's drive away but with very restricted opening hours, mostly at times when I have to be elsewhere, and of course anything Scottish has to be ordered in... I've got there precisely once! They do have something ordered for me just now though. But I'll be in Edinburgh at the end of next week and hope to get a couple of hours in the library... I'm there for a work trip, though!)

I should have specified further - Linlithgow Bridge is on the border between West Lothian and Stirlingshire, with almost all of it in the parish of Linlithgow (WLN) but the Inn my ancestors ran across the Avon and hence in Muiravonside! So I'm trying Linlithgow but have similarly not seen anything there - it's another mysterious disappearing family

Jenny