Regarding Reply #14, there was more than one Walter Wilson in Hawick at the time. Brett's illegitimate Gt. Grandfather could have been from Isabel Richardson's husband, Walter Wilson of 1821 in Hawick.
Walter Wilson married Isabella Richardson in 1821. They had quite a large family: Jane 1822; Walter 1824; Margaret 1827; Isabella 1829; James Donaldson 1831; John 1833; Elizabeth 1836 (from the Scotland's People index).
In the 1841 census there is a Wilson family in Hawick consisting of Walter, 49, baker; Isabella, 40; Jane, 15; Walter, 14; Margaret, 13; Isabella, 12; James, 9; John, 7; Elizabeth; 5; Agnes, 3; Jessey, 1. (From the transcription at
https://freecen1.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl). Therefore Isabella Richardson's husband was not a cabinetmaker, therefore he is not the father of Wilhelmina Bell's son.
Also Walter Wilson, baker in Hawick, died on 10 September 1849, and his will was confirmed on 24 July 1851, so he cannot possibly be the father that Walter Wilson on his way to Australia wrote to in 1852.
I'm sure the FamilySearch Library in Utah will help sort it out.
Why ask them to 'sort it out' when all the original records are in Scotland, and most of them can be readily accessed online at
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk? In fact, given that Walter Wilson's 1862 death certificate that I found there was news to you, have you ever actually looked at Scotland's People at all?
The Walter Wilson in Hawick is not yours, I am sorry to say. He was in Selkirk in 41 and 51.
In the 1851 census the only Walter Wilson in Selkirk was a 28-year-old master baker, born in England. He fits exactly with Wilhelmina Bell's son who in the following year emigrated to Australia. In the 1841 there are no Walter Wilsons at all listed in Selkirk. This is from FreeCEN and from the indexes at Scotland's People and FamilySearch. Therefore your source above appears to be giving you wrong information.
Further to this, the Jessie Wilson that Brett claims is my Jessie Hobkirk (nee Wilson) is according to him another illegitimate child of 7 between Walter Wilson and Wilhelmina Bell.
According to whom? In any case, it's easy to disprove. Jessie Wilson, widow of George Hobkirk, died in Hawick in 1913, parents Walter Wilson, master cabinetmaker, and Jessie Gray.
That coin he posted earlier is not to legitimate Jessie Hobkirk (nee Wilson) but to illegitimate Jessie Wilson.
That coin contains nothing that could have a bearing on the legitimacy or otherwise of Jessie Wilson or Hobkirk. And in any case how would her legitimacy or otherwise have any bearing on the parentage of Wilhelmina Bell's son? It's a complete red herring.
Walter Wilson fathered 6-7 children and then left while being married to a 36 year old Isabella Gray.
Wrong again. The Walter Wilson who married Isabella Gray did not leave, and if we are to believe your repeated assertions he fathered only one child, Janet or Jessie, born 1828 died 1913.
And by the way, the names Janet and Jessie are used interchangeably in Scotland, She was baptised Janet but known as Jessie/Jessey/Jessy for the rest of her life. Which reminds me that if you had bothered to look at the original baptism record on Scotland's People you would have had evidence to prove or disprove whether or not Walter Wilson and Janet or Jessie Grey or Gray were married.