. I keep going over the same ground and getting nowhere, and I’m at the stage where I really want to move on but can’t stop puzzling over what happened to them ](./images/smilies/brick-wall.gif "Brick wall"){kind=small}
.It seems that life was one struggle after another for this family and although I’ve managed to get a lot of information on some of them I’m completely stuck on others, mainly the girls for the usual reasons. I’m trying to discover what happened to these poor wee orphans in adulthood, if they lived that long, and because of various problems that keep cropping up, such as the listing of male as female, misspelling of names, incorrect ages, not forgetting the naming system in Scotland and the number of Websters in Ceres/Fife, it has been very difficult. (Although earlier than I’m researching at present, the 1861 census for the family have four James Websters in the same household. On the 1851 census there are three, but the youngest of those, a 2-year old, is listed as a son-in-law
s.So … if anyone can help with this family I would be eternally grateful! Thanks for having a look anyway, whether or not you have any suggestions.
PARENTS: James Webster b. Ceres - d. 13 11 1870 Ceres
Margaret McGillivray b. Newport, Fife - d. 25 12 1867 Ceres
Married in Dundee 28 12 1852
Children
Isabella b. 29 Dec 1854 Ceres – No Image - No more info
Elizabeth b. 20 Feb 1857 Ceres - No more info
James b. ? 1858 Ceres (No trace of birth on SP or LDS)
m. 18 Nov 1881 Burntisland
d. 11 Dec 1919 Burntisland
Finlay b. 02 Feb 1859 Ceres
d. 04 Oct 1893 Aberdour – unmarried
Jane b. 30 Jul 1860 Inveresk, Midlothian (also reg in Cupar)
m. 26 Jun 1880 Dundee
d. 22 Mar 1903 Dundee
Leness b. 05 Jul 1862 Ceres
d. 23 Mar 1863 Ceres – age 8 months
Mary b. 22 Apr 1865 Ceres - No more info
Kind regards.
Vee
. Thanks to you I can now move forward again. I should have known it would be a misspelling that was at the root of my lack of success. I’ve had so many of them it’s becoming the norm 
. I don’t know why I didn’t think of using a wildcard this time. I did do for James’ birth, in all combinations I could think of, and I’ve searched Statutory Records and OPR in vain. It has to be there somewhere on SP though so I’ll keep at it. I really do like to have the proof in print.
The sisters must have lived in the same block of flats. (It’s heartwarming to know they had stuck together in spite of their poor start in life.) I’d been given a copy of the 1881 census details for Jane by a distant relative who had done a wee bit of research some years ago but it couldn’t have come from ScotlandsPeople as it only had three people on it, and as I knew they were mine I didn’t download it myself. I wish I had now. The details given to me are as follows:
Wow! Thanks Lesley! Fast or what! I definitely will be paying a visit to LDS. Many thanks again - much appreciated!
. I went to the Dundee LDS Family Research Centre this week to see if I could further my research and it was well worth it. I met a small band of obviously dedicated people who were very friendly and helpful and gave me a few pointers to help in my research. I found a few elusives with their help. My husband came along too, which was great as he is much more switched on technically than I am. He’s been doing his tree on and off for several years and was back to the 17th century with his father’s line in Wiltshire but he got stuck and let it slide a bit. However, our visit to LDS sparked his interest and he’s off again. He progressed his line a bit further too so we were both happy and have booked again for next week 
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