Can't sleep and guess what's ticking over in my head
I have spent another couple of hours going through the 1871/IGI/SP. The conclusion I reached some time ago is that these girls were not christened Christina and Ann Anderson/Dunlop. With the help of Tom on the other thread we did find some Christina and Ann sisters (with different surnames) in either Edinburgh/Glasgow and followed each through in Scotland past the 1872 sailing date.
I have also gone through the poor houses in both Edinburgh area and Glasgow (type area, age range and inmate for relationship to head) and that tends to bring up poorhouse residents. The BIG problem that we have is that brings up a huge number of possibles (lots of young girls in the right ages with mothers only). Some are hard to double check on IGI down to mis-transcription of surnames.
For example, there is a Christina age 9 and Mary age 7 (surname YOUNG, Edinburgh birth place) who look to be orphans and staying at the Orphans Hospital in Edinburgh. I haven't as yet been able to find corresponding entries on IGI with matching parents...and that's just one set of entries with at least Christina as a name.
Re Ann Dunlop name, there are only two in Edinburgh in the 1861 census who could potentially be mothers to the girls. One is a servant b. 1846 in Edinburgh and the other is born in 1831 in Gladsmuir, Haddingtonshire and is a lodging house keeper.
However, this assumes that mother was from Edinburgh or in Edinburgh for the 1861 census. She may only have come to Edinburgh (if that actually is where the girls were born) just before the eldest was born.
I did find this entry: ANNIE DUNLOP Birth: 22 JUL 1866 Clyde, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland Parents: Mother: ANNIE DUNLOP - but no entry with a Christina.
Similary, I found an entry for a criminal prisoner from Glasgow in Edinburgh for the 1871 census called Ann Dunlop age 42
............but it is easy (man drowning comes to mind
) to see things where they may not be there for lack of actual substance.
Monica
