Anne Green d 30.5.1851 Farnoughty/Farnachty

[Nelpir]

Looking for any info on Anne Green.  Married George Green 10 Nov 1804, Rathven.  Had 2 sons James & George and a daughter Margaret, b 2 Oct 1808, Slackend, Rathven. Margaret is my 3xgt grandmother. she had a son James Scott (illegit) b c1827  (my gt gt grandfather).  Margaret later married Alexander Farquhar 1839. She died 23 May 1902 (92) Woodside, Clochan. 

[sancti]

What was Anne Green's maiden name?

[fifer1947]

What was Anne Green's maiden name?

Looks like they were both Green by surname

[sancti]

Possible BAPTISM

27/11/1783

GREEN

ANNE

Daughter of

PETER GREEN and ELSPET RAINY

at

MORTLACH

/BANFF

[fifer1947]

James Green christening: 04 Nov 1805 RATHVEN,​BANFF,​SCOTLAND

is the only one showing up on familysearch

[GDub71]

I suspect that she was probably from Enzie. My wife has a Green ancestress there slightly earlier. I don't know what the story is with Enzie, but the Parish records pre-Census seem to be non-existent! I have several families there I would love to delve into.

[Forfarian]

I don't know what the story is with Enzie

The story with Enzie is that Enzie remained staunchly Roman Catholic when Roman Catholicism was widely persecuted during the 17th and 18th centuries, so the Church of Scotland registers don't contain most of the baptisms and marriages of the parishioners. In the year 1800 (it is said) there were more Roman Catholics in Enzie than there were in the city of Glasgow. There are Roman Catholic registers for Enzie, which may perhaps shed some light, but they don't start until the 1780s.

Also, the status of Enzie as a separate parish was a bit variable. See http://www.abdnet.co.uk/genuki/BAN/Enzie/index.html and especially the section on Historical geography.

Green is a pretty common surname in Banffshire, and as Sancti has found, there is a possible candidate in Mortlach, where there is at least one very large family of Greens.

However don't fall into the trap of thinking that just because there's only one possible candidate, it must be the right one

Have you found Ann in the 1851 census? Where does it say she was born?

[Annette7]

The 1851 Census states she was bc.1774 Rathven, Banffshire.

Annette

[Forfarian]

The 1851 Census states she was bc.1774 Rathven, Banffshire.

Ah yes. That is presumably a transcription of the census? The actual census doesn't say that. It says that she was 77. Assuming that this is accurate, that means that she had had her 77th, but not her 78th, birthday by the date of the census, that is, 30th March 1851. Therefore she was born between 31 March 1773 and 30 March 1774.

I wish these census transcriptions didn't 'calculate' the birth year from the age in the census. Because the census was always taken about a quarter of the way through the year, this calculation gives a wrong answer three-quarters of the time