« Reply #22 on: Monday 09 October 17 20:48 BST (UK) »
(Annie ~ not sure why you suggest that a widow might be more likely to have a child in her 40s than a single woman 
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I think what people are meaning is that illegitimate births tended to happen more in the younger age bracket of late teens/early 20s. As a woman gets older she's more likely to be married. Some women never married of course.
It's not impossible of course, one of my ancestors was having multiple illegitimate children right up till her late 30s and then got married. I think they are just wanting OP to explore more avenues first.
mtDNA subclade K1b2b. Father's Y-DNA I-S25383
GEDmatch kit; CF7867455
Father's kit; RY1336515
Mother's kit; AF2312865
Kincardineshire
Sheret, Hosie, Valentine, Crow, Beattie, McArthur, Wyllie.
Angus (Forfarshire)
Adam, Valentine, Ewan, Elder, Guild, Kydd, Bradford, Stronner, Gibson, Cloudsley, Evans, Stewart, Stott.
Perthshire
Small, Robertson, Murray, Kennedy, McGregor
Ross & Cromarty
Cameron, Stewart, Grant
Banffshire - Gamrie
Anderson, Massie
