Margaret Laidlaw (nee Erskine)

[Niknak13]

Hi Folks, I cant find a death notice for this lady anywhere. She was born in 1782 in Culross and was still alive in 1841, living in Dunfermline, but presumably dead by 1851 as she isn't on that census.
Can anybody help me with this one?
Thanks,
Nicky

[ev]

Hi Nicky ,

As you probably know , deaths before 1855 are not well recorded.

Did her husband die 1850 Dunfermline ? Wright Laidlaw ?


ev

[Niknak13]

Yes, Wright was her husband.

[ev]

There are 2 deaths showing for a Margaret Erskine 1841 - 1851 on the OPR's for Dunfermline , no reference to Laidlaw.

OPR's also have a Wright Laidlaw death/burial 21st April 1850 Dunfermline , Fife.



ev

[Niknak13]

Thanks for this. I thought that all deaths were recorded. I know that not all marriages were recorded before 1855 but I didn't know the same applied to deaths. Damn. Unless she got remarried. But she would have been quite old already to get remarried after Wright died, but stranger things have happened I suppose.

[MonicaL]

Hi Nicky

Unfortunately, deaths and burials were the least well reported of events pre 1855 and the start of official registration in Scotland. See www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=554&1353

Monica