Hi Barbara,
Thank you for the info.I have to agree with you.I have the marriage forAlexander McKay and Isabella Cockburn
12th Jan 1812 at Eccles.
There is a mistake on the Christines death certificate too.Her mothers name should be Isabella Bell not Margaret.
I have William Scott married to Isabella Bell and from that I got Williams parents
William Scott born 1757 Hawick death 1840 Hawick Wilhelmina Scott born 1759 death Hawick 1841.
I wonder if these two were cousins?
Getting back to William and Mary.In the beginning all I had was their names on Annies wedding certificate
in 1885.It did not state deceased.On the census years after her marriage Annie always said England as
her place of birth. She was born 1861/1862.
1861 census address Hamlet of Moneylaws Carham Northumberland.
James Dodds Head born 1811 Scotland age 50 agricultural labourer
Agnes Dodds born1814 Wooler Northumberland
Agnes Dodds born1845 age 16 Scotland
Mary Dodds age 19 born 1842 unmarried Scotland [ This is who I believe to be Mary.]
1861 census Servants Cottages, Hamlet of West Learmouth Carham
James McKay age 46 born 1815 agricultural labourer born Scotland
Catherine McKay age 45 born Scotland
William McKay son age 22 born 1839 Scotland agricultural labourer. [ This is who I believe to be William]
Margaret McKay daughter married age 20 born 1841 Scotland
James Alexander McKay age 15 born 1846 Scotland
John McKay age 12 born 1849 Scotland
Robert McKay age 8 born 1853 Carham Nortumberland
Mina Sott McKay age 5 born 1856 Scotland
Catherine Scott McKay age 3 born 1858 Ford Northumberland
That puts these two families together in the same place Carham in 1861
I found Agnes McKay born 5th Nov.1863 Eccles I got her birth certificate and she is the daughter
of William and Mary Dodds.That is where I got the marriage date from
Mary Scott MacKay born 24th April 1873 Morpeth, Northumberland could also be a daughter but I did not buy her birth certificate to check.
James Dodds Marys father was born at Yetholm and Mary Dodds was born there too about1841.
I have not started to trace this Dodds family yet.
Wilhelmina Scott McKay who was Williams sister went to Coldwater, Branch County , Michigan, United States.She was 16 years old.Maybe William and Mary went there for awhile.
Mina as she was known married John Cochrane in 1873 at Coldwater