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Howdy, this is what I have on this family: Mary Jane Thompson (sister of my great grandmother) married William Salmon & they had 4 children - Peter, Jessie, Jeanie & Mary. Peter Salmon married Henrietta McDonald & they had 3 children - Mary (married Sam Johnson), William (married Elizabeth Malloy) & Henrietta Jnr (married George Riddell.) I have no other info on Peters sisters Jessie, Jeanie or Mary - I think one of them was nicknamed Polly and she possibly married someone with the surname Ryan or Rynd. (I have a photo of a "polly ryan" that was in my great grans stuff)
So the E. Salmon who signed as a witness to the wedding of Mary & Sam above could have been Elizabeth wife of William Salmon perhaps?
Please can you all tell me exactly how you fit into this family so I can add you to my family tree?

Yes, Wright was her husband.

I am also interested in the Salmon family. I think they are connected to my family tree. If I am right, then Henrietta's father, Peter salmon, was the son of Mary Jane Thompson and William Salmon of Glasgow. Would love confirmation of this!

I saw the Canadian regiment article on Ancestry today and as that has him as a rope maker and as Mary Bower's death certificate states that he was a rope spinner, I think this is likely the same chap. Born 1790 Dunfermline would likely make him the son of Thomas Bisset & Elizabeth Mercer. But he & Mary named their seemingly only son William, which means David's father was likely a William and not a Thomas. Unless they broke from Scottish naming traditions. On 1841 Scottish census William was 15 and living in a house in Dunfermline together with Isobel Bower, who was an aunt of his. (Mary Bower's sister). 1851 census he is living in Dunfermline. 1861 census he has moved to Maryhill Glasgow. 1871 & 1881 he wasn't living with his family - cant find him on any census's, only his wife & kids, still living in Maryhill. He appears again living with his family on the 1891 census. He died in 1900. I cant find his father David Bisset on any census. Mary died in 1840 at which point David was still alive (she s referred to as his wife on her death certificate and not as his widow). Maybe he died before the 1841 census. No idea. Cant find hide nor hair of him. 

Townsend Thomson was my GG grandmother. She was a dressmaker and must have been quite a "gal". She never married, but had 3 illegitimate children each by a different father. I have viewed all their birth certificates and they were all illegitimate. Her firstborn was Isabella Miller Thomson (my great grandmother) and no father's name is stated on the birth cert, but I assume it was someone with the surname Miller. Her 2nd child was Euphemia, the father being Thomas Shoolbred, and the 3rd was a son named David, no father's name mentioned. Townsend died in 1910 and her death certificate was witnessed by her grandson Robert Smith, the son of her daughter Euphemia. I know Townsend Thomson's grandparents were James Thomson & Townsend Dick but I would love to know where the Townsend connection came in. Townsend must have been the surname of one of the female relations in this line but I haven't found that person yet.