My Great Grandmother is a bit of a mystery, I have been provided with research from Islay which would indicate she was registered as Sarah Colins on the 1841 Census aged 14 in Kilchoman and Sarah McEwen on the 1861 Census aged 32 in Kilarrow and on her marriage certificate Sarah McEwen Campbell in Glasgow The research stems from the fact that on both her marriage and death certificates her mother is recorded as Barbara Hyman and father Hugh McEwen Campbell, soldier. Sarah McEwen had a son James McEwen in1861 and the address ties up with the address on the 1861 census and so I accept that the census record must be correct
In 1868 she is recorded as 26 on her marriage to William Lang, 1871 she is 20, 1881 she is 46, 1891 she is 50, and at her death in 1899 she is 57 (if the first records were correct she would have actually been around 73!!
Whilst her age’s are a mystery I have been advised that there was no Hugh McEwen Campbell on Islay but there was a Hugh McEwen in the 42nd Highlanders who could have been her father. I am a bit bemused as to where the surnames ‘Colin’s’ and ‘Campbell’ will have come from and why none of them would have been Hyman after her mother. Her mother died at Kilarrow in1869 and I wondered if there would be any other records with information on mother and daughter that would solve some of these issues or whether my only hope is Kirk Session records in Edinburgh? Thanks for any advice.
