Tom, just been reading your other post here
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=664851.0Thought best to use this one here as it has all the background to your searches.
What showed on William's birth (marriage/death) cert regarding his father William's occupation? What year was Maggie McGregor born?
Unusual that the registrar let William Snr's name go on the birth cert in the first place...if he wasn't present at the birth. Maybe he was present, in the company of Maggie's father who was the informant (not a happy gathering you would think
). Normally both parents would need to be present, where the birth is illegitimate, to enable the father's name to go on the cert at all. If he was not present, normally the birth was registered only under the mother's maiden surname. If at a later date, such as in this case, where Maggie took legal action against the father for maintenance, the registrar would go back to the birth registration and make a note (indicating there was a further entry with more info on the Register of Corrected entries - RCEs). The RCEs references normally show on the left hand side margin, next to the first column. Scotlands People have been adding these RCEs, where available, to their images over the years.
Monica