Jean
I had to come back and thank you for the help with Fanny Birkhill/Mcalpine. I have been uploading documents for the children of the family and in amongst all of it, (there are a lot of children) there is a Marriage Certificate for Fanny and Robert's son Robert and his wife Isabella. His parents are listed as Robert Stevenson and "Fanny Birkhill Stevenson, M.S. McAlpine". So, we have managed to tie the McAlpine and Birkhill together as the same person. A sad note is that Robert and Isabella were married for less than three months before Robert died.
It was a totally unexpected Eureka moment, and I now feel that as Fanny's Death Cert lists "Parents unknown", that I have probably gone as far back as I can with this line. I cannot thank you enough for finding Fanny wrongly indexed as Janet, and giving me the incentive to just keep ploughing on.
I also took your advice and contacted Scotlandspeople to point out that Fanny was wrongly indexed as Janet. Have to wait and see what they say.
I'll just keep ploughing on with Fanny's husband Robert and see, if after all this time, I can find a breakthrough with him (his parents are listed as Robert Stevenson and Catherine Mackieson on his Death Cert, so I think I will now concentrate on him. Strange how you become a bit obsessed with one of your ancestors. Fanny has been that one for me.
I cannot thank you enough for your help.