Thanks for all your work on this family! I had some of it but not all. Alfred appears on a ships manifest leaving Scotland, but according to my cousin from Perth he is not on the ships manifest when it arrives in AU. She thinks he may have died on board and been buried at sea. Sounds plausible to me. I also can't find a birth cert for him on ScotlandsPeople so I'm wondering if his birth wasn't registered. He was probably an illegitimate son of James Cadenhead. There was a lot of that in this branch of the family. James was illegitimate and his father went on to marry Ann Bisset. They had a daughter Jane who had 3 illegitimate children by 3 different men before she married and had 3 more children!
I too am wondering if there ever was a divorce. I'm beginning to think that James left Margaret and the children and she simply declared herself a widow and went on with her life. The children seem to have accepted Henry Baxter as their father. Even as adults, they used his name as their own for many records though they obviously knew that James Cadenhead was their biological father. The cousin who originally posted in another place on the Forum is related to me through James and Margaret's youngest daughter Elizabeth. She knows very little about the family and was pleased to make a contact with me.
All this certainly keeps the hunt interesting!
Carol
