I have hit a major snag in tracing my gt gt grandmother's (Margaret Wright) line.
On her marriage certificate it gives her mother's name as Isabella Bell .... on her death certificate it says Mary Anne Wright nee Chambers.
Her father is given as Walter Wright in both cases. This is not a second marriage as Walter was married to Mary Anne at the time of my gt gt grandmother's birth and was still married to her at the time of his death.
She was born in 1849 and yet I cannot find her living with the family on the 1851 census of Jedburgh...surely where you would expect a 2 year old child to be living? neither can I find her with the family on the 1861 census
However !! .... on the 1851 census and living in the same building as the Wright family (presumably flats?) is a family called Bell........one of them a 2 year old Margaret Bell.
Margarets daughter claimed that her mother had 6 older sisters, as far as we can tell Walter and Mary Anne did not have 7 daughters, the Bell family however seems to have been very large indeed.
Is it possible that Margaret Bell was adopted by my gt gt grandparents? or is it that Walter was indeed her biological father (if not' why name her biological mother and not father on her marriage certificate?) and brought the child up with his wife to save face?
This has my whole family scrathching their heads ......... anyone have any ideas?
