I'm trying to find my great uncle daughters not sure where to start. here is the info I have .their names are Marjory and bella I have looked on ancestory but some things are miising right now William b. at Moss-side, Rafford on 15 Feb’1848. 1851 census has him there aged 2. Strangely he doesn’t appear with his parents in 1861 census. Perhaps
following his father’s death 2 years earlier & to help his mother, he may have been brought up by relatives.
1861 census shows a possible 12 year old “cattleboy” Wm at Whitefield, Midhillock where a John Walker was head, a farmer of 68 acres & aged 68 with his wife
Janet Walker, 61 (presumably relatives despite Wm being referred to as a “servant”?). Moray’s records reveal Wm’s wife as Anne McKenzie b. 1 Aug’1843.
1871 census shows Wm, 33 (I think that should be 23) at 26 Urquhart Street, Forres with Annie, 38 (I think that should be 28) along with children Mary J, 7;
Annie, 5; & Wm, 3. Wm. m. Ann McKenzie at Hopeman on 12 July 1872 when he was 24 from Urquhuish(?) while she was 27 from Hopeman.
1881 census has Wm,33, a mason, living at 26 Urquhart Street, Forres with his wife Ann,38 along with children: Mary J (7); Annie(5); Wm(3).
Other daughters were b. in Forres: Bella on 7 Jan' 1882 & Marjory on 12 Aug' 1884.
1891 census has Wm. 43, stone mason & Ann, 47 at 37 Urquhart Street with Mary J.,17; Wm. 13; Bella M. ,9 & Marjory, 6. Mary had become a dressmaker & Wm a
message boy.
1901 census has them at 21 Urquhart Street where Wm Snr, 53 is designed as a stone mason & along with wife Anne, 57 remain only Bella, 19, a domestic servant &
Marjory, 16, a dressmaker.
1911 census has Wm Snr, 63, still there with Ann, 67 & his daughter Marjory, 26. They’d been m. for 38 years & had had 7 children but only 2 then surviving. Wm
Snr d.14 Aug’1915 aged 67 at Urquhart Street; his death being reported by his daughter Marjory. He was designed as a mason, son of James Walker, crofter dec'd &
Helen Walker m.s. Smith dec'd. His wife Anne d. at Urquhart Street aged 79 on 13 May 1923. Both are buried in Plot 947 in Clunyhill Cemetery Forres.
Marjory emigrated, arriving in New York on 3 Nov' 1923 while Bella emigrated to Canada & then followed Marjory to U.S. arriving in Buffalo, New York on 23 June
1936. Her papers cited her sister as the contact & a cousin Andrew Reit??"