Ladies - wow!!!
I was doing this for a friend as a favour - I have a personal interest in the British Home Children scheme and was trying to help her.
I have to confess that I have recently thrown my original notes away
having almost given this up as a lost cause!
So I will contact her again and see if this all ties in - going by memory(!) I think it does! Christina was living with the Livingstone family in 1881 and obviously seems to have married one of the sons! Can I ask you where you got the marriage details from i.e. parents names?
The daughter Marion I. listed on the 1901 census is interesting as it seems to me that my contact had said Christina felt her mothers name was Marion Isabel? But then where does Annie Dunlop come into it?
I know Christina went on to have a normal productive life in Canada - Annie her sister was adopted by an American doctor and his wife and died very young (early twenties). My friend was not allowed access to Annies records from the adoption scheme as she is not a direct ancestor.
Christina's records were very basic and showed her to be an orphan, although she always maintained she was not. It was quite common for this to happen - sometimes the kids were placed into homes if the parents had fallen on hard times, and the parents thought it was a temporary measure. They signed papers they didn't really understand and were effectively signing away their rights to their children. These kids were then shipped out to Canada and Australia as "cheap labour".
Anyway I will let you know if you are on the right track, and I appreciate your time and effort!!!
Linda
