"Isabella and the two children are on the 1861 census"
Can you supply details (ages) of all of the above please & where all were said to have been born?
Annie
I think the births in Heriot and Warriston don't have the right parents.
On the 1861 and 1881 censuses, Isabella (daughter) was born in Glasgow, Lanark, on 1871 and 1891 censuses it says Edinburgh or Scotland.
I had checked Glasgow births but none had the right parents, however I've just spotted an
Elizabeth Isabella Morrison born in 1856, in Anderston, Glasgow, parents Colin and Isabelle Morrison. So one more step in the right direction.
Isabelle (mother) and Donald where both born in Edinburgh according to the 1861 and 1871 censuses.
On the 1861 census we have Isabella (mother) age 27, Donald age 7 and Isabella (daughter) age 5.
On the 1871 census we have Isabella (mother) age 36, Donald age 16, Isabella (daughter) age 14,
Over to Jane, I'm going out on a limb here, but:-
On the 1881 census she is Jane G Churchill, but there is a marriage later in 1881 for a Robert Brough and Jane Westwood, on the marriage record is says mother is Isabella Westwood MS Morrison (deceased), Isabella died April 1881, father Robert Westwood, Printer, Compositor. Jane is age 18, which would put her birth to 1863, which would be why she isn't on the 1861 census, but doesn't explain why she is 14 in 1871. Elsewhere in ancestry's records she is Jane
Gibson Brough. The name Westwood crops up in more recent generations as a middle name, and if I'm correct and sister Eleanor married Alexander Wylie then at least one of their children had Westwood as a middle name.
So lots to investigate there.
Rob