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I just had a look at the 1898 marriage and it is her. Parents Thomas O’Brien, Commissionaire and Margaret O’Brien m/s Kane. Same details as on the Shulman marriage in 1908.

This query has just resurfaced on another board. As a result I have just had a look at the 1921 English census. This shows Eveline as Evelyn Johnson living in Stretford, Manchester with mother Annie (Annie married Bertram Johnson on 21 April 1921, shortly after the death of David Schulman) The 1921 Census shows Evelyn as born 1905 in Scotland which appears to confirm what many of us thought - that she was the five year old Eva Barrett Schulman listed as a stepdaughter of David and Annie in the 1911 Scottish census and was therefore born much earlier than the OP thought. Just thought others who worked on this might be interested.

Okay I think I have found you proof that the James who died in 1862 is not yours. In 1851 there is a James Christie age 30 in Kirkgate Perth who is a Grocer. He has a servant called Hellin  Rae born around 1832 in Auchtermuchty. This matches with Helen Rae who married James Christie and subsequently John Roy. She also was born in Auchtermuchty in 1832. In 1851 your James was living with his wife and family. You know from his death certificate that the James who died in 1862 was the son of James Christie and Ann Rough so they are not the parents of your James who are almost certainly John Christie and Ann McIntosh. Your James Christie went to Canada.

Helen Rae or Christie was in Kilmarnock in 1861 living with her widowed father David. Her two daughters Jemima (1) and Jessie (6) were with her, both born Perth ( Jemima is transcribed as Jamine and Helen as Ellen on Ancestry). Mother and daughters show as Rae or Christy on the census entry. Ellen is described as married and her occupation is Housekeeper. My guess is that her husband James was already in the Asylum in 1861. Meanwhile the other James ( the one that was the widower of Jane Sherwood) was in Airdrie with his children.