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I did check in scotlands people but pointed out the errors from ancestry as so many people dont seem to look at the actual scotland census forms.  I knew I had the right people and can see why as on the handwritten form it does look like Blaw and Ellen!    The address was correctly shown in ancestry as 3 Brisbane Street.

In the Scotland census 1851 Jean is staying with her mother Ellen (Helen) Weir  but  transcribed as Jane Blaw!  James Blair  aged 3 is with his mother and grandmother.

Thanks Rosie, I had looked at Henry Tudor Parfitt   but can find no sign of a daughter MJS Parfitt.   In the 1871 census   where Mary Jane is living with father "Hugh" Parfitt  a widower, her birth is Edinboro, Scotland, his birth is Bristol but hard to read.    Housekeeper is Rose Logan  from Liverpool.
In the 1911 census MJS is  correctly married to Robert Wood and her birth is Helensburgh Dumbartonshire.   I will keep hunting.  Useful to have the Henry Tudor Parfitt and Rose Parfitt same gravesite.   

I am looking for help with a Mary Jane Sinclair Parfitt - supposedly born 1855 in scotland.   On her marriage cert. to Robert Wood in 1875 her father is named as Henry Parfitt a mariner.  In the 1881 census a Rose Parfitt born in Liverpool in 1824 is staying with Mary Jane and Robert and is a widow and looks as if it it says mother on the form but I seem to have hit a brick wall!    The handwriting on the census looks like Purfitt.  I have tried looking at Scotlands people for Mary Janes birth but found nothing.Henry doesnt seem to turn up in any census and I am not sure where he was born.     Philippa

Thanks for that Bev,  I think that is the correct Blair family.          Philippa