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Dunbartonshire / Re: Marion Calderwood
« on: Saturday 02 March 13 21:35 GMT (UK) »
To all that have been helping , over time, with the issue of the Maggie McD and Maggie McG mystery, I thought you might be interested in the outcome of a recent visit to the Mitchell Library in Glasgow where a superb registrar assisted me.
Maggie McG was the illegitimate daughter of Maggie McGill, Maggie McD was the daughter of James Calderwood and Isabella McDougall.
From the census the assumption was made that McD was for McDougall and some error had been made with McG because she was listed as a Calderwood but born 2 years before Maggie McG snr married James
No birth records had been found - this has been rectified McD is McDowall.
Whetehr Maggie McG jnr was given the name Calderwood or whether the census taker assumed she was Calderwood we will never know (she may even have been a love child of James and Maggies)
Maggie McG was the illegitimate daughter of Maggie McGill, Maggie McD was the daughter of James Calderwood and Isabella McDougall.
From the census the assumption was made that McD was for McDougall and some error had been made with McG because she was listed as a Calderwood but born 2 years before Maggie McG snr married James
No birth records had been found - this has been rectified McD is McDowall.
Whetehr Maggie McG jnr was given the name Calderwood or whether the census taker assumed she was Calderwood we will never know (she may even have been a love child of James and Maggies)