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Offline jojo06

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Who is Ann Matheson
« on: Friday 19 October 18 11:17 BST (UK) »
Hope there is someone who can help.
I am trying to figure out who Ann Matheson is, what infomation I do have (Uncertain of accuracy) is that she was born 1801 and died 1860 age 59. I believe there maybe a gravestone with the inscription as follows"IN MEMORY OF HIS BELOVED SPOUCE ANN MATHESON WHO DEPARTED HER LIFE AT CONTIN 16 AUGUST 1860 AGED 59"
Ann Matheson is included along side the MacLean/McLean family. What I do know is the McLean family left Urray and Contin areas around 1821 and headed towards Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. As said, I am unsure of how acurate the information I have is.. I have included two attachments with this post.
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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #1 on: Friday 19 October 18 14:02 BST (UK) »
Well.

The obvious source for a death in 1859 is the statutory registers of deaths at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

Unfortunately there is no death of either an Ann* M*Lean or an Ann* Math*son in Contin in 1859. There isn't even anyone vaguely resembling this either.

There is a marriage of Donald McLean to Ann Mathieson in Killearnan in 1846. This might be the Donald and Ann McLean who are in the 1851 census in Urquhart and Logie Wester.

There is a birth of a Harriet McLean to Donald McLean and Ann Matheson in Contin in 1873, and there is a marriage of Donald McLean, son of Hugh McLean and Jessie Matheson, to Ann Matheson, daughter of Alexander Matheson and Harriet Simpson, in Contin on 5 July 1872. In 1881 they were in Jamestown, Contin: Donald McLean, 36, shoemaker, born Contin; Ann McLean wife, 32, born Fodderty; Alice Gillespie, stepdaughter, 11, born Glasgow; Harriet McLean, daughter, 7, born Contin; Hugh McLean, son, 6, born Contin; Alexander McLean, son, 2, born Contin; Ann McLean, daughter, 5 months, born Contin; Jessie Cameron, servant, 16, born Fodderty; Alexander Fraser, boarder, 63, born Kiltarlity. Ann* M*Lean, other surname Mat*son, died in Contin in 1883, aged 34.

So there were two couples with the same names, married 26 years apart, but the second couple isn't the one you want.

Ann McLean, other surname Matheson, died in Urquhart and Logie Wester in 1886, aged 92. Ann Matheson, mother-in-law, aged 86, is in the household of Alexander Fraser and Mary Matheson in Urquhart in 1881, so this is Ann Matheson, widow of Donald McLean, not the other way round.

Another Ann Matheson or McLean died in Urray in 1899 aged 63, but I can't see her easily in the 1881 census. In any case this one is much too young to have married in 1846. (Not the widowed Ann McLean in Urray in 1881; she was Ann Bartlet.)
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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #2 on: Friday 19 October 18 14:02 BST (UK) »
Record on Scotland's People
DONALD MCLEAN married ANN MATHESON 6/02/1846 Killearnan

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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #3 on: Friday 19 October 18 14:29 BST (UK) »
1851 Urray   Born   Age
Donald Maclean    Contin   60
Ann Maclean    Contin   59

So probably not the right Ann Matheson

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Clarke, Trickett, Orton, Lawless, Norton, Detheridge, Kirby, Goodfellow, Wagstaff, Lowe, etc.


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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #4 on: Friday 19 October 18 14:33 BST (UK) »
1851 Urray   Born   Age
Donald Maclean    Contin   60
Ann Maclean    Contin   59

So probably not the right Ann Matheson
Could be a second marriage, perhaps?

On the other hand there is a household in 1841 at Newton, Urray consisting of Dond McLean, 50; Ann McLean, 45 and three servants. As this is before the marriage of Donald Mclean and Ann Matheson, it does seem to rule out the ones in Urray in 1851 :(
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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #5 on: Friday 19 October 18 16:31 BST (UK) »
1851 census, Jamestown, Contin: Donald Maclean, married, 45, farmer, born Contin, is a visitor in the household of John Maclean, 35 and his sister Helen Maclean, 50, both born in Contin. Could this be Donald, husband of Ann Matheson? And if so where was his wife?

Donald Maclean, son of John Maclean and Mary Mackenzie, was baptised in June 1813. So he would have been 38 on census day 1851. So it doesn't look as if he is the one in Contin in 1851.
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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #6 on: Friday 19 October 18 21:44 BST (UK) »
Check the rental for Fairburn Estate, Urray, you might be lucky. Bartlett's a local name, Aultgowrie!

www.fairburn-estate.co.uk/history.html

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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #7 on: Friday 19 October 18 21:55 BST (UK) »
Check the rental for Fairburn Estate, Urray, you might be lucky. Bartlett's a local name, Aultgowrie!
jojo06 is looking for Ann Matheson, not Ann Bartlett.
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Re: Who is Ann Matheson
« Reply #8 on: Friday 19 October 18 22:04 BST (UK) »
I'm quite aware of that fact!!!! but thanks anyhow!

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