I thank you both for your help and will sit down and think for a while after this post.
Were you thinking that John b. 1865 might be their son? Given your Christian was b. 1811 I think she would have been too old to have a child b. that long after her marriage.
I know. What led me was the attached, a photo of the relevant part of "Chart of part of the Brunton family, ca.1650-1912 : [with] genealogy of Brunton family in America, beginning with James Brunton, who came from Yarrowford, Scotland to Doon, Onario, Canada early in 1842"
As you can see John Dickinson Brunton (he of the Dalkeith Bruntons) has penned in a Christian, married to someone in 1848, who had a son called John, born 1865. Note the lack of a down arrow above Christians name!
I would normally think that the 1848 was a birth year, but its connected by line to two of David Bruntons other children, Robert born 1822 and James born 1820, and as David died in 1824.... Also no Christian Bruntons were born in Scotland around 1848 that I am aware of.
However, if the wedding was in 1848 I would expect it to be above the T, NOT below the Christian name, as the rest of the document follows that order.
Christian is a really strange one, as she disappears in Scotland after 1841. Only thing I have connecting her to anywhere is "James Brunton" witnessed the marriage of a Christiann Brunton in 1848, and thats it.
Christian and Walter have proven to be rather elusive but here are a few thoughts for you to mull over.
I take it I am going over covered ground?
My direct line is David Brunton of Yarrowford who died 1824, married Elizabeth Leith(h)ead, and the purpose of my expedition was to trace his father, siblings and his children. The only sibling I have come across is a Joan Brunton, who married in 1811 and presumably died before 1841. I can find no parents who had a Joan (Jean/Jane etc) and a David as children.
David William Brunton 1849-1927 (James son) threw a spanner into my works as he claimed, in a 1922 book, to be a cousin of John Dickinson Brunton. Something I cannot fathom.
I have covered all the Dalkeith Bruntons coming from Robert Brunton (1676) who married Dorothy Gray, "Dorothea Gray" on everything but the gravestone! and cannot link the two families.
My great great grand-uncle claims we came from the Calders, West Lothian. However, a lot of his writings were inaccurate with regards to dates and places and can't be relied on - although Bruntons were in the Calders in the 1690s, and were tailors there.
Time to think for a while....
