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Thanks for your note.  I want to confirm that the janet Mounsey who you refer to as ggg grandmother is the same janet Mounsey who was my gg grandmother born 1804 in tinwald Dumfriesshire.  She married Edward Lorimer or Latimer or sometimes referred to Edward Lotimer.  The couple resided in Sutton Ontario Canada.  This Janet Latimer's parents were James Mounsey and jean White.  There was another Janet Mounsey born in 1764  whose parents were Alexander Mounsey and Jane or Jean Rogerson.   That Janet Mounsey married Samuel Rogerson in 1787.  There was a lot of Rogerson and Mounsey inter marriages.  Which Janet Mounsey is your direct ancestor?

It looks very much that we are cousins. How do you connect with Janet Mounsey?  My great grandmother Janet Latimer daughter of Edward Latimer and Janet Mounsey born in 1836 married Robert Nicol in Sutton inabt 1858.  My grandfather John Nicol was born in 1873 and died in 1962 in Toronto.

I hope that I hear from you

I have some confusion.  My gg grandfather William Thomas Iliff married Elizabeth Whitmell sometime in the mid 1820's in Crick. From 1851 census data, she had two children Martha Iliff born abt 1827and Thomas William Iliff abt 1829 when she was 38 and 40 years old.  Her husband died Sept 1844 in Crick.  From the census, it would state that her birth year would be either 1789 or 1790.  My understanding was that her parents were John Whitmell and Sarah Judkins.


From other sources, Elizabeth Whitmell from Crick married Robert Perridge in 1814.  From your input they had from all accounts two children Elizabeth born 1818 and William Whitmell Perridge 1825 .  From the 1851 census, she was a widow with two children as stated above.  From this data her birth year was thought to be 1789 or 1790.  You stated that her husband died  in 1844. 

How many similarities/coincidences can actually exist?

Prior to the issue of the 1851, I felt this was the same woman married twice.  But that can't be true because we have two different widows living with their grown children one in Crick and the other in Blakesley Northamptonshire in that census.

Do you have any information that could clarify this.