So we now need censuses to show all the siblings
Could it be a male Scott who went to Bermuda not a mystery woman
Or
A bermudan man coming to England and fathering a Scott child
I get the feeling roosters may beven able to join the dots for you .
Avm I hadn't noticed their ages at marriage. ..I wonder how common it was for 15 year olds to marry .
As far as we know, Sam was always in Bermuda up to that point. The story is that he met my female ancestor, fell in love, and they had two sons, Charles and Stuart. My feeling is that they were at least in their 20's. Just a feeling, maybe because I wonder if she were on her own, and not under parental control, possibly a young widow? Back then, I would imagine that parents would not be happy that their daughter bore a child out of wedlock, so I wonder how that happened again (possibly twice, if Marion Scott was a sibling; see the other posts)? I think that the parents would have kept her from him, possibly shipping her to England to stay with family. Also, we don't think they were married. I personally don't think they were. As of 1861, the punishment in Bermuda for a Caucasian woman bearing a black child was whipping, so would their marriage be legal in Bermuda in 1865, when their first child was born? (I read that online somewhere, but can't remember the source). Now, in the U.S., where I live, some states have antiquated laws that are rarely enforced : New York State has a very old law that states that adultery is illegal--but it's rarely enforced (or half the state would probably be doing jail time!
). So, perhaps the Bermuda law was an antiquated law that was not enforced (?)
