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See screenshot for baptisms on Scotland's People, parents William M(a)cPherson and Elizabeth Moir
Elizabeth, 30 September 1777
George, 15 May 1785
both in Cairnie.

What are the chances that someone found George, assumed his parents were married a few years before he was born, plucked 1781 out of thin air and put it on a tree on Ancestry? There is certainly no genuine surviving available record of a M(a)cPherson/Moir marriage in 1781, so unless the person who compiled that tree has something like a family bible, you cannot trust it.

It would indeed be useful to know how Leashl arrived at William McPherson and Elizabeth Moir.

Riddell, I've sent you a PM. 

Welcome to RootsChat, Riddell.

According to the deaths index at www.scotlandspeople,gov.uk there is a death of a Mary Ann Taggart or Miller in Kilsyth in 1943. So she was born about 1870.

The index to the 1911 census in Kilsyth lists what looks like two Millar households consisting of Alex, 40; Elizabeth B, 36;  Mary, 35; John, 32;  Kathleen, 15; Minnie, 13; Mary L S, 3; Elizabeth A, 1; and Jenny, 0.

There are births of Mary Livingston Millar and Elizabeth Allan Millar in 1908 and 1909, mother's maiden surname Lockhart; and Jennie Millar, mother's maiden name Taggart, was born in Kilsyth in 1910. John Millar married Elizabeth Bryde Lockhart in Kilsyth in 1907.

However I am not seeing a marriage of Mary Taggart to Alexander Mill*r in the a marriages index at www.irishgenealogy.ie and I can't see Kathleen in the 1901 census in Ireland.

You need to go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and invest in a few credits.

Use some of them to look at the birth certificate of Jennie Millar. This will tell you the date and place of her (and therefore Kathleen's) parents' marriage.

Use some more to look at Mary Taggart or Miller's death certificate. This will tell you if Alexander had or had not died before her, which will help to find his death, and it should tell you the full names of Mary's parents including her mother's maiden surname. Actually he is probably the Alexander Miller, mother's maiden surname Wilson, who died in Kilsyth in 1921 aged 62. His death certificate will tell you the full names of both his parents.

And you could also take a look at the original of the 1911 census, which might tell you where in Ireland they were all born.

Unrelated question - might the initials SBTB mean anything to you? A simple yes or no will suffice until you have made enough posts to use the Personal Message system.

As they were living in Scotland after 1855, and assuming that they died in Scotland, their death certificates should tell you the full names of their parents including their mothers' maiden surnames, assuming that the informant(s) knew that information.

See www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - a small fee is payable to view the original documents.

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i think we might need a little more evidence to allow us to home in on your twins. Are you saying that your great-grandmother had twins Jemima and Ina in 1901 surnamed Hart; that Jemima was adopted by someone called Thomson, and Ina died in 1963? Because I can't find anything to match that.

However in 1901 twins named Jemima Innes Thomson and Williamina Down Thomson were born in the district of Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire. The mother's maiden surname is omitted from the index, which usually implies that the birth was illegitimate.

There is a death of Jemima Innes Thomson or Ritchie or Collett in Pitsligo in 1963, so it was Jemima, not Ina, who died in 1963.

The original documents can be viewed at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk for a modest fee. Either of the birth certificates will tell you the full name of the twins' mother and where they were born. This may allow you to find their mother in the 1901 and earlier census.