FARQUHARSON JANE BISSET

[Forfarian]

I didn't have the patience to do the exact date of birth just the year and I totally forgot about using the birth fields to narrow down her age. No patience and bad memory maybe I should get a new hobby!

I put in age at death 1-100 and got 1 result.
Then 1-90 and got zero results, so I knew she was aged between 90 and 100.
So I did 91-100 and got 1 result.
So I did 92-100 and got no results, so I knew she had to be 91.

With the year of death, I knew the one we are looking for was alive in 1861 so I did 1861-1877 and got 1 result.
Then 1870-1877 and got 1 result
So I did 1870-1876 and got no results, so she had to have died in 1877.

QED, and without spending any credits.

[jennywren001]

A question - any idea why William Bisset would be talking in little 'Skene' children for over 20 years?They have Skene child lodgers in 41 and in 61? That's Skene as in their name not for the parish of Skene.
Jen

[Forfarian]

They have Skene child lodgers in 41 and in 61?

Well, if we had the originals of those censuses, rather than just dodgy transcriptions, we might know where the Skenes were born and the real name of 'Rock' Charles Skene who was aged 57 in 1861.

[jennywren001]

I'd definitely want to see that 61 census - especially when you can see:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYFF-S57
and you know William's first wife was a Milne from Skene.

[rosie17]

Oh dear this just gets more confusing    where are you Jane 

[rosie17]

Found the probate record for Jane Murray Bisset of 39,Erskine Street Aberdeen died 22 June 1914 at Kingseat Asylum Aberdeenshire confirmation of Alfred Henry Bisset shade maker sealed London 8th December ...So she never married maybe if we find her in some of the census forms thought we might have got lucky with the mother ....forgot the son was in Industrial School in 1871 

[GR2]

A transcription, not the original. 1861, Chapel Street, Old Machar, Aberdeen:

William Bisset, head, 53, house proprietor, b. Fetteresso, Kinc.
Jane Bisset, wife, 32, b. Strathdon, Abdns.
William Bisset, son, 31, silk mercer, b. Maryculter, Kinc.
John Emslie, step-son, 11, scholar, b. Chapel of Garioch, Abdns.
Jane W Bisset, daughter, 5, b. Maryculter
Joan M T Bisset, daughter, 3, b. Maryculter
Jane Sellar, servt., 30, domestic servant, b. England
Rosamond Davidson, boarder, widow, 78, fund holder, b. Kirkwhittoch (sic), Dumbartons.
Charles Skene, boarder, widower, 57, minister of John Knox Church, b. Birse, Abdns.
Jane Skene, boarder, 8, b. Old Machar, Abdns.

[GR2]

1841, Kirktown of Maryculter:

William Bisset, "30", shoemaker, b. Kinc.
Agnes Bisset, "25", b. Scotland
William Bisset, 1, b. Kinc.
William Strachan, 15, apprentice shoemaker, b. Kinc.
Agnes Show (sic), 7, female servant, b. Kinc.
Charles Skene, 10, b. Scotland
James Skene, 8, b. Scotland

[GR2]

As to the Skenes:

I have come across a reference to the Rev. Charles Skene, schoolmaster at Skene in 1834.

The 1841 census for the school house, Skene, has Charles Skene, 38, teacher, Elizabeth Skene, 23, female servant, and one other female servant.

Jane Haldane Skene, only daughter of Rev. Charles Skene, died 29-6-1849.

The 1851 census shows Charles Skene, 46, widower, minister of John Knox Church, at 5 Canal Street, Aberdeen, with sons, Charles, 19, b. Skene, and James A., 17, b. Skene, and a domestic servant. The boys are both described as scholars.

It looks as if Charles Skene's wife died and he boarded the children out.