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"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

"Isaac, age 3 (b1868) his birth certicate has the message about the missing husband"

Can you please tell us exactly what it says about the 'missing husband'?

Is he named on Isaacs birth, what was his occ. on that birth & the others?

Most of the message about the missing husband is in the original post, but I missed the first line.  The full message in the father column is:-
Isabella Morrison wife of Colin
Morrison (Baker) who she declares
is not the father of this child
having been furth of Scotland for four years

"Isabella in 1856" What's written on her BC & who signed?

What is Isabella's marital status on the 1861 census?

I can't find births for Donald 1854 or Isabella 1856 (or any years either side).  I only have ancestry.co.uk's record of the 1861 census, not the original image, that states she is 'Head' of the family.

"Jane, who on the census is the same as a daughter Isabella, but wasn't on the previous census, can't find a birth record for her"

I'm not understanding what you mean, sorry but what ages were each on the census' you have them on i.e. what was the yr of birth of each & where?

Annie

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, but now there is also Jane also age 14, and Eleanor age 5 and Isaac age 3.
I have birth records for Eleanor and Isaac, Eleanor states illegitimate and Isaac's says that Colin isn't the father but doesn't say who is.

Hope this helps a bit more.

Rob

That makes sense, I wonder where he'd been.
The woman had had another illegitimate child a couple of years before.

Thank you both

Well done everyone

I got it wrong as I though she may have been Widowed and did not have access to the 1830 Marriage.
I apologise.

Trish

Don't worry, it sounded plausible without the 1830 info, added to the fact that most previous researchers have taken the easy path and assume the 1838 marriage was right because the names almost fitted.
I had a similar example in my mothers family tree.  I was looking for the maiden name for a Caroline Hill my great great great grandmother.  No sign of a husband in the censuses, so a look through other family trees found a marriage in 1850 for Henry Hill and Caroline Sparrow, surely that was the right one, the names fit?  Bought the marriage certificate to find that Caroline Sparrow married James Sparrow so not the right one at all.  After a lot more digging I found she was actually a Matthews, had children with a least one,possibly two men named Hill, but never married  them and children with another man, again never married but used his name.