splinters

[bleckie]

Hi All

Do you often feel that you are going round in circles and scratching your head and getting splinters.

I have attached an image all dates and information are correct as per certs from S.P. except his first wife's surname which should be Anderson.

As I say everything is exact except her surname, does anyone have an answer

Yours Aye
BruceL

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[Milliepede]

Could Burns have been her middle name?  Like Elizabeth Burns Anderson?

Had she been married before and that was her maiden name.

[bleckie]

Hi

On their marriage cert it states spinster

Yours Aye
BruceL

[scotmum]

If the headstone and/or details were not put in place until much later, say after the death of James, it could simply be that whoever arranged for the headstone and writing, made a mistake and those who would have noticed were already dead. Or, as Milliepede suggested, her middle name was used instead of her maiden name.

[loobylooayr]

If the headstone and/or details were not put in place until much later, say after the death of James, it could simply be that whoever arranged for the headstone and writing, made a mistake and those who would have noticed were already dead. Or, as Milliepede suggested, her middle name was used instead of her maiden name.

My suggestion the same as scotmum.
Looks like the headstone was erected after the death of James Croy in 1913 - approx. 33 years after Elizabeth's death. Perhaps whoever was left to organise the headstone made a mistake. And once it had been finished, if anyone noticed , it might have been too costly to rectify.

Looby

[Rosinish]

Another thought...

If Elizabeth was born illegitimately although her father signed her birth cert. she would have been registered under both surnames (mother's m/s & father's surname) i.e. whoever dealt with the MI may have used the wrong maiden name as both would have been correct?

Which Cemetery was this?

Annie

[Rosinish]

Another thought...

Who was the informant on Elizabeth's death 1879?

Could her mother's maiden surname have been Burns?

I have DC's with wrong info. on parents maiden names which tie in with the mother's maiden name or the mother-in-laws maiden name 

Annie

[scotmum]

I have DC's with wrong info. on parents maiden names which tie in with the mother's maiden name or the mother-in-laws maiden name 

Annie

I also have a number of DCs where the informant has 'creatively combined' forenames and/or surnames from both sides of a family.

[RJ_Paton]

Presuming that those named are interred at this location, have you checked the Lair Records to see who is actually recorded as buried there ?