Scotlands People have no marriage listed in 1843 and there is no marriage listed for this couple between 1830 and 1843.[/quote]
Hello, I couldn't find the marriage record on SP either, but I found this in a google search when looking for their names.
http://news.rootsweb.com/th/read/SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE/2003-08/1061146182Family Search
I took this as fact/a transcription that may have not made it into safe keeping and was since lost.
Also, those dates for James and Margaret, the children, are the same things that I have.
So, anyway, James Wilson, the child, is my first concrete link that I have. From there, and from finding his name along with his children's name's on censuses (remember, I am building the tree up so I know who everyone is from present day until this particular James Wilson), I discovered that his wife's name was Mary. I did some digging, and I thought I found the right marriage cert, which listed her maiden name as Bann. This makes sense/I consider this confirmed because on one of the censuses there is a live-in relative with the surname of Bann. DO keep in mind that on these censuses, and I have one for every decade for James, that they never list his birth town, they only write "Scotland" so I had to get creative to find a starting point.
Okay, so we call this fact.
Now we need to see who this James Wilson's parents are. Now, again, I know that James Wilson was married to Mary Bann, so I found their wedding cert. James's father is listed as John Wilson on that document.
So, I did a large scoped general search for James Wilsons born to John Wilsons, in relevant years, and there were only 33 results.
So, I guess technically, I need to determine who exactly this James Wilson's mother is to be entirely sure I am on the right track.
That being said, I saw a family tree premade on ancestry and he was listed as James Muir Wilson. So I added Muir to the search on Scot's People, and there was only 1 other result, James Wilson, born to John Wilson and Margaret Muir.
I had to dig through my notes to remember I arrived at this conclusion. So, yes, it is a bit of a stretch.... So you are definitely right. I need to prove Margaret Muir is the mother somehow before I can continue... I just don't know how.
If I was correct, I will be in the same situation as before with the Mclean thing, or I will have to start again.
Do you have any thoughts on how to move forward? You seem really well versed in all of this and I really value your help/input!!