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I'm hoping someone can help me with a brick wall. I've discovered just this week on a page called Scottish indexes that my 3rd gt grandmother Jane Hewitson 1812-1849 had a child in 1840, before she married my 3x gt grandfather James Muirhead. The respondent was Robert Kennedy esq.of Riddings, Morton in Dumfries and he was ordered to support the child called Mary (although the judgement says it was a son, the OPR said it was a daughter called Mary. I can't find this child anywhere. Jane Hewitson, by then Muirhead, went on to have two children with James, Alexander in 1844 and another child called Mary in 1848. Why would she call a second child the same name? ( I know that children are sometimes named after deceased siblings but cant find a death of Mary)

Jane died in 1849. It doesn't help that there are lots and lots of Hewitsons and name variations of Howatson, Hewetson, Honatson and Hoatson.

Jane's brother Robert Hewiston b.1809 also married her husband's sister Nicholas Muirhead, just to add to the story!

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I am looking for help in locating the birth of my gt gt grandfather James Wickham b.abt 1831, and  died in Leith Edinburgh 1881
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He was married to Agnes Auchterlonie (Lonie)..children George, Alexander, Grace, Agnes and James

The 1861 census record shows that he was a 31 yr old mason journeyman married and living in South Leith and it said he was born in Fishponds, Bristol, Somerset.

His death certificate states that he died on Oct 4th 1881 in Leith and his parents were William Wickham, Mason Journeyman and Isabella _________

I cannot find his parents anywhere
thank you

In the census of 1911 in Edinburgh,  David Colville aged 45 was  living with his wife Christina(nee Wilson previously Thomson) aged 51, their daughter Grace aged 8 and Christina's older brother aged 56.

I cannot find Grace on official records at all. I have searched Scotlands People and cannot find a birth or death for her anywhere or a marriage . I am stumped !

I couldn't see anything in emigration records either but my biggest problem is finding her actual birth.  I thought she may be an illegitimate grandchild?  I have also been searching for siblings but nothing either.

David and Christina married in 1895, both were single..a spinster and bachelor. Both David and Christina were illegitimate themselves...and I'm thinking she may have been adopted by them?

 I am seeking information about my great grandfather William Jamieson Colville and his life and death in Canada.

He was born in Selkirk in Scotland on 7 March 1887 and married Janet Allan Findlay in Edinburgh in 1907.
They had three children, Alfred, John (my grandfather) and William.

Alfred, born 21st September 1908, emigrated to Canada in May 1927 later married Marie (surname unknown)
William Jamieson Colville moved to Canada in 1930 and his occupation was listed as a chef.

Despite promising his wife that he would send for her, he never returned and she never left Scotland. My grandfather was left with the responsibility of caring for his mother and younger brother. His wife (my great-grandmother) died in 1947.

I have sighted a shipping record of William Jamieson Colville returning to Scotland in 1956 for six weeks with a wife called Daisy.

I am assuming he died in Canada (perhaps in Montreal) and don't know where to find out the relevant information, likewise with my great uncle Alfred, I'd  like to know where he lived and when and where he died. It was always a mystery to the family as my grandfather would not talk about his father and it would be good to have some answers and lay the mystery to rest